Dirigibles or airships are powered, steerable aircraft using lighter-than-air gas to get their lift. Rigid (or semi-rigid) airships have some kind of internal structure to make their shape. Blimps don’t.
Midnight, catching up on dirigible gossip in the fediverse comments
Bring back zeppelins
Zeppelins are a brand name. They are rigid air ships built by the Zeppelin company.
Not really, it’s become generic a long time ago, like bandaid.
I don’t know if this is true but i once read that when classifying lighter-than-air ships they broke them down into two categories. A rigid and B limp and that’s where the name blimp comes from.
Not sure if joke or real, but it’s my head-canon now
And if you cross a gerbil with a dirigible, you get a dirigiberbil
If you looked at the article, you’ll probably enjoy this book.
The only fantasy element in the story is that people with a Napoleonic level of technology have access to unlimited supplies of helium.
You can tell that the author had a great time figuring out the specifics of the craft.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-guns-above-robyn-bennis/90734a18a40dfd82?ean=9780765388773&next=t
Looks interesting.
Bill Hammack, the engineer guy, has a book about Britain’s last airship.
Thanks for the recommendation. Listening now
Enjoy
