FOLKS, WE HAVE FAILED TO TELL THE PUBLIC THE TRUE VALUE OF AIRSHIPS

Airship Intelligence

Folks, we have failed the Airship, and thereby the American public !

How can that be ? We have failed to get the true story of the Airship across, and with it the many lost opportunities to educate people about what it truly can do for us.

How do we know ? Three Signs :

IF the media still flash the terrifying image of the Hindenburg going down in flames at Lakehurst !

IF we still have folks cry out, almost in glee "Oh, the Humanity" every time that image appears ... and NOT ONLY then. There was one poor Navy enlisted man working at an airship hangar who got a chorus of that phrase every time he walked across the hangar floor, from the (inevitably watching) gang of non-Airship sailors .

.. and IF we, meaning the Collective Semi-Conscious can gasp in horror at the thought of one airship accident in 1937, but barely glance at a picture of a helicopter accident in the latest news. Unconvinced ? Here are the statistics SOURCE : Helicopter Annual 2009

 

Number of civil helicopter accidents  Number of fatal helicopter accidents

accidents between 2004 and 2008 ;     

                                                                     

         2004 --- 180                                2004 --- 33

         2005 --- 93                                  2005 --- 26

 

         2006 --- 162                                2006 --- 25

 

         2007 --- 175                                2007 --- 23

 

         2008 --- 140                                2008 --- 29

 

 

Pretty nasty statistics when compared with the single 1937 Hindenburg disaster !