Airships are on the rise again. For 60 years or more airships have been mostly a novelty but things are looking up for this neglected way of getting about.
At the start of the 20th century airships seemed the natural choice for air travel. The world's first airline, the German DELAG, flew airships not planes and when the Empire State Building was built it included an airship terminal.
For quite some time lighter-than-air airships were streets ahead of heavier-than-air aeroplanes in range and capacity. The good times didn't last.
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