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Affiliated with the Zeppelin Company, Delag carried 34,000 passengers on airships between 19, without a single injury, then began a regular service between Berlin and southern Germany, starting in 1919.
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The world’s first airline, Delag, did not use airplanes. That wind turbines and Tesla electric cars are now claiming back their lost markets may foreshadow a revival of giant airships, as well. The coal-fired power plants replaced windmills, Detroit gas-guzzlers replaced electric cars and jet airplanes replaced the Zeppelins. During this period, windmills and electric cars were also commercially available, and disappeared from the scene, losing out to fossil fuel intensive substitutes. But unlike those, the giant rigid airships fell by the wayside, and ceased to be seen above the great cities of the world.Īirships were not quite unique in this respect. They were born in the Gilded Age, a still-unsurpassed zenith of human technological creativity, like airplanes, automobiles, electricity, radio, the factory assembly line, and so many other technologies define modern life. The unusual thing about airships is that they are not new, and so we can learn from history. Even if you grasp the essence of the new technology, the implementation snafus, varied applications, impact and hype, cannot be imagined. New technologies tend to make great demands on the imagination because everything about them is novel and unprecedented.