• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The Empire State Building was designed as a zeppelin docking station. Boarding/de-boarding and flight times are barely competitive with the modern subway. It was fun and novel, but quite impractical.

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      To be fair have many people still been trying to improve on the technology or are we still using some ancient blueprint.

      Avation science has come a long way.