Why are Zeppelins not used today?

Unlike many people, I actually hold that the main reason airships are not used in greater numbers had more to do with a lack of piloting experience than it did with any other major technological factor. Hydrogen was used as a lifting gas safely, in combat, for large portions of WWI by the German army and Navy. read more

Unlike many people, I actually hold that the main reason airships are not used in greater numbers had more to do with a lack of piloting experience than it did with any other major technological factor. read more

There are no zeppelins today. Zeppelins were 'dirigibles', they had a framework of metal, covered by cloth, with gas bags inside. Blimps are smaller and are only a big balloon filled with gas. Blimps are still in use but zeppelins disappeared in the 1930s. If it's 1914, though, dirigibles have great future potential. read more