Even the old Zeppelin airships never had a major issue with strong winds - and t...

abecedarius · on Aug 10, 2021

That's not how I remember it from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_Rule:_Autobiography_of_a... though yes we have much better weather forecasting now.

romwell · on Aug 11, 2021

You mean, the book that wasn't about a Zeppelin? As in, an aircraft made by the Zeppelin corporation.

The British never learned how to make dirigibles[1], the Americans never learned how to operate them; all non-German airship projects were failures.

That's why Zeppelin became synonymous with "rigid dirigible airship". Because all other projects failed.

[1] R100 was a good design... but it was scrapped because of politics, and never entered service.

zardo · on Aug 10, 2021

If you look up the ship dispositions several were torn from their moorings and wrecked in storms. And several crashed in thunderstorms.