It’s funny (funny strange, not funny “ha ha”) how society can act like an individual person in some ways. After the Hindenberg horrifically exploded, it was as though all of humanity had recoiled from touching a hot stove. Despite the fact that modern airships are filled with helium instead of flammable hydrogen, in some ways we’ve never gotten over the trauma of that incident.

But time and economics may finally be giving the airship a come back.