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Why Airships Refuse to Die — and Who’s Paying for It

United StatesPublished October 29, 2025

Views 235K  |  Likes 5.6K  |  Comments 556
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Business Explains The WorldBusiness Explains The World
214K subs153 videosOct 2024

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235,792

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5,600

Comments

556

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The blimp was supposed to die with the Hindenburg. Yet decades later, defense contractors and startups are still spending fortunes trying to make airships the future again. To find out why, Jordan Winters went inside a modern airship hangar, met the people betting their careers on them, and discovered how one doomed id…

Published
October 29, 2025
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