Since the tragic 1937 fire and crash of German passenger airship Hindenburg at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, no one has given airships a fair shake. This is understandable—hydrogen is highly flammable. But the possibility of airships making a comeback lived on through science fiction authors. For example, in the best-selling 2017 novel New York 2140, author Kim Stanley Robinson confronts a world so utterly transformed by climate change that airships are the predominant form of transportation and housing.
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