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Let's suppose for the moment that the Hindenburg disaster does not happen for any of a variety of reasons. Now: in the face of improving conventional aviation, what gives with lighter-than-air transportation on the short term? Does it:

a) become a luxury-only proposition, providing leisurely travel for those with plenty of money and time;
b) become a steerage proposition, becoming a way of transporting bodies without using more expensive aviation gasoline (I suspect the engines could be air-cooled diesels since the application is more roughly analogous to marine engines than aviation engines)
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