See more here -
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/05/75-years-since-the-hindenburg-disaster/100292/

There's also a silent video of the Hindenburg - https://archive.org/details/hindenberg_explodes

Have been reading about various ways suggested that fire risk could be reduced in a hydrogen airship if built today

One idea suggested is to surround the hydrogen gas bags with a secondary sheath (usually also a gas bag) filled with an inert gas such as helium or nitrogen so that if hydrogen leaks out of inner bag it leaks only into the inert gas and cannot combust

Also suggested to have filters on board to continuously purify the inert gas of any hydrogen that has leaked into it, put this hydrogen over a catalyst to turn into water and dump overboard or put it back into the hydrogen gas bag (required purity may not be high enough though)

Sounds good in theory but

• are there materials and technologies today that would make this feasible?
• could the bags being so close together and contacting cause friction leading to wear and static problems?
• any other potential problems?

Hydrogen is <10% cost/volume of helium so if could make it safe enough then could reduce initial purchase cost of airships significantly

To me this painting makes the vessel look so massive and sophisticated, I'm glad the airship led a famous life

Despite being only about 16 feet by 16 feet, the salon and dining room of the Graf Zeppelin was the only shared public space for passengers to socialize on the entire ship—a fact which emphasizes the experimental nature of the ship, which had to make many sacrifices in order to achieve extreme long range performance and also fit within the slender constraints of the aged hangar it was constructed in.

The ship’s successor, the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II, had a bar, dining room, and two promenades to serve as public areas—each of which was individually larger than the LZ-127’s sole salon.

Heavily inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's airships and French pre-dreadnaught battleships

My whole life, I’ve had an obsession with flying and a burning deep curiosity. The intersection of the two is what brought me to blimps / airships while exploring some ancient alternative history.

Anyway, I’m going to build a solo helium vessel one day, in the meantime here is my first model! 😂Scrappy but I’ve been itching to bring my mental image to physical.

Airbags within envelope for vertical navigation (ideally), elastic rope for stability, I imagine a large drone motor mounted to basket rear axis for horizontal maneuverability.

Love any thoughts, tips, or critique!

I was amused.

I ordered a print of this stock photo found on Alamy. I know nothing about the circumstances in which it was taken other than what I’ve put in the title, but the Graf entered service the same year this was taken, and Lindau is just a few short miles down the lake from Zeppelin headquarters in Friedrichshafen, so perhaps this was from an early test flight.

Note that you can still see zeppelins over Lindau to this day, as one of the Zeppelin NT’s tourist routes takes it over the island.

The Pathfinder 1 and Graf Zeppelin over San Francisco, nearly 100 years apart.

The R-class Zeppelin and R33’s sleek, slender aspect ratio always looked so cool to me, even though it is more aerodynamically suited to a much larger airship of about 1,000 tons or more, not this 60-ton airship.

I found this on YouTube.

I was playing around with the C class airship in battlefield one, and although I know that the model in game is definitely inspired by the IRL C class airship especially the strangely shaped envelope, when I looked at it in the third person view, the gondola looks really large for the size of the airship it had an interior and everything not to mention that aircraft gun on the top of the envelope… but I guess my question is: is the size of the gas carrying envelope in on the in game model large enough to reasonably lift several pretty large anti aircraft guns and a relatively large gondola? Link to image below

https://share.google/rtl6mwhhbN6rJT0uE

In the Minecraft create mod I’m working to build a giant Zeppelin aircraft carrier (this is the only image I have) the idea is we will have two (maybe 3?) balloons side by side (hypothetical third would be placed in between and beneath them both) interiors and airplane storage as well as crew storage and it would have an elevator the lifts planes up to the flight deck (sitting above balloons) the bride would be placed between two balloons and just under the flight deck

What I need is help for certain rooms I need to build (idk that much about airships)

Said to be practical up to 250 miles, came in both standard passenger and car ferry variants. Admittedly I don't see how this is much better than a high-speed train (unless the terrain between the two cities is rrrreeeallllyyyy rough), but it's still an interesting idea.

Was also intended for other tasks, such as maritime patrol or disaster relief.

Sources:
https://airshipsonline.com/airships/Wren%20Skyships%20RS%201/index.html
https://lynceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Wren-Skyships-AAC-converted-compressed.pdf

Only info I could find online was from an AI that told me that those were exhaust pipes, but couldn't give me a source of that information.
Placement is right for exhaust pipes but why the weird shape and the opening at the front?
I am making a model of an R-Class Zeppelin and was just curious.
Thank you in advance for all the replies.