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Nearly forgotten, another project is mentioned, from a company not really known for producing airships:
At the beginning of the '70s, the Dornier AG had drawn projects for a passenger and a cargo carrying airship.
Those studies were ordered by the "Flugschiffbau Hamburg GmbH", without precise requirements or limits,
so the chance for realisation seems to have been very low from the start. Both variants had a volume of
200.000 cbm, an envelope made of thin aluminium sheet and four tiltable props.
The passenger version should carry 468 pax, the cargo version 75 tons of freight over a distance of 600 km.
(from "Luftschiffe, die nie gebaut wurden" (Airships, that were never built), Zeppelinmuseum Friedrichshafen)
At the beginning of the '70s, the Dornier AG had drawn projects for a passenger and a cargo carrying airship.
Those studies were ordered by the "Flugschiffbau Hamburg GmbH", without precise requirements or limits,
so the chance for realisation seems to have been very low from the start. Both variants had a volume of
200.000 cbm, an envelope made of thin aluminium sheet and four tiltable props.
The passenger version should carry 468 pax, the cargo version 75 tons of freight over a distance of 600 km.
(from "Luftschiffe, die nie gebaut wurden" (Airships, that were never built), Zeppelinmuseum Friedrichshafen)