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Rigid Airships and Blimps: Two structural approaches to cargo transport – ISOPolar Airships

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The Goodyear blimp is a household name and the most visible instance of applied airship technology today. In some respects, it is the best advertisement for the potential of airship technology to revolutionize future transportation, too. After operating GZ-20 blimps safely for 48 years (1969-2017), Goodyear retired the last of these well-known blimps and replaced them with German Zeppelin NT airships. The Zeppelin NT also has had a flawless safety record since its first flight in 2000. While the non-rigid, or blimp, structures have dominated the airship industry since the 1940s, this is more a function of demand than structural design. After the jet-powered airplanes took over the passenger transport market, there was little need for giant, ocean-crossing rigid airships that had been built in Germany, Britain and the United States. The rigid airships lacked an easily capturable market niche, and no one had the ambition to pursue it aggressively. The only commercial market left was for

December 2, 2019 Rigid Airships and Blimps: Two structural approaches to cargo transport The Goodyear blimp is a household name and the most visible instance of applied airship technology today. In some respects, it is the best advertisement for the potential of airship technology to revolutionize future transportation, too. After operating GZ-20 blimps safely for 48 years (1969-2017), Goodyear retired the last of these well-known blimps and replaced them with German Zeppelin NT airships. The Zeppelin NT also has had a flawless safety record since its first flight in 2000. While the non-rigid,

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