How do we bring back the passenger airship /his/?

>>2207714
by slimming down the diameter of the body, doing away with the dangerous practice of flammable gas, adding wings for lift, and giving it more powerful engines

>>2207714
Make it even more hipster. Draw some cool tattoos and beards on the skin and have speakers play Tame Impala on take off. There's still a chance this plan might fail for not being sufficiently underground.

>>2207714
Airships are already making a comeback, actually. Particularly for scientific expeditions. Give it 20 years and i could see them as a budget alternative to airplanes.

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>>2207726
kek

I can only see that happening if environmentalist legislation and resource depletion made passenger aircraft untenable

>>2207714
Can hydrogen melt steel beams?

>>2207730
What if...
We launch it from underground.

>>2207819
but then you can't crash a zepplin if it's already in the ground

>>2207742
They'll never be a budget alternative for airplanes due to the simple fact that they're just too fucking slow.

>>2207943
Hybrid airships don't have to be.

>>2207714
Give it a lifting body design and make it only slightly heavier than air when fully loaded.then strap some big directional fans on the side and thrusting fans on top.

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>>2207943
WEAV faggot

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>>2207726
fpbp

>>2207943
Modern airships move 200-300 mph... more than enough for a budget airline service.

>>2207714
by bringing it back on Venus