Modern Rigids
There are no rigid airships flying today. The Zeppelin company refers to their NT ship as a rigid but this is a misnomer. The envelope shape is retained in part by super-pressure of the lifting gas, and so the NT is more correctly classified as a semi-rigid.
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“And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)