WI the Hindenburg hadn't blown up

The Hindenburg doesn't explode in 1936. Improved airship design and greater demand favors lighter-than-air travel over the commercial airplane, though airplanes are still built for military use. This gives the German a greater air advantage over British and World War II ends by 1941, setting the scene for a Nazi-Soviet conflict by the early 50's.
 

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The Hindenburg doesn't explode in 1936. Improved airship design and greater demand favors lighter-than-air travel over the commercial airplane, though airplanes are still built for military use. This gives the German a greater air advantage over British and World War II ends by 1941, setting the scene for a Nazi-Soviet conflict by the early 50's.

Oh my.......
 
Non sequitur...

The Hindenburg was a blind alley in aeronautical terms. The USA had tried to make rigid helium airships work and (like Britain) was to have its greatest success with the non-rigid blimp for anti-submarine work and radar picket duty. Germany recognised this by its failure to press ahead with long-range airship flights to Brazil, Canada and the Far East. Heavier than air flight was the key to fast transportation of passengers and goods - the rapid inter-war development of aero-engines and advances in airframe engineering soon outstripped the capability of the zeppelin.

I would suggest that the only improvement possible to the hydrogen airship would have been plastic sheeting to build gas-cells. Unfortunately, the development of such plastics had to wait until the late 1930s and 1940s. By then, the airship was relegated to the duties of the blimp - valuable in warfare but of low economic value.

Sorry to be such a wet blanket - I have read Neville Shute's book 'Slide Rule' and wish that the R100 had a better career.
 
If the Hindenburg didn't catch fire and crash (it did not "blow up") then she'd have be joined by her sister the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II next year (which using hydrogen could've carried 70-80 passengers) with one ship flying Frankfurt-NYC, and the other Frankfurt-Rio (the original Graf being demoted to a training ship). The even larger LZ-131 would not be finished in time for WWII. Once the war started both airships would be grounded. Neither would survive the war and when commercial airflight resumed it would be with planes.

Simply having the Hindenburg surive isn't enough. You'd need an earlier POD, more airships flying (the British had plans for an Imperial Airship Service and Goodyear did draw up plans for passenger ships) and even if you butterfly away WWII they wouldn't last past the 50s. The Airship President timeline is what you're looking for. All those things happen. POD is the the 1920s. The USN airship program is more succesful and most importantly this butterflies into Hugo Eckener running for President of Germany against Adolf Hitler and winning.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=141895
 
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The Hindenburg doesn't explode in 1936. Improved airship design and greater demand favors lighter-than-air travel over the commercial airplane, though airplanes are still built for military use. This gives the German a greater air advantage over British and World War II ends by 1941, setting the scene for a Nazi-Soviet conflict by the early 50's.

You can't be serious.
 
well acording to one writer whos name will remain unmentioned for personal reasons
(No it isn't turtledove)
due to some very bizzare butterflies Nazi Germany will get the nuclear bomb and win WW2
I wonder if anyone knows who it is
 
The Hindenburg doesn't explode in 1936. Improved airship design and greater demand favors lighter-than-air travel over the commercial airplane, though airplanes are still built for military use. This gives the German a greater air advantage over British and World War II ends by 1941, setting the scene for a Nazi-Soviet conflict by the early 50's.
Errr... NOPE.
What German 'air advantage'? In OTL fighter numbers for the Battle of Britain started roughly even... and the British had a higher rate of fighter production than the krauts. I can't see any reason why a few airships should change that... and if you're plotting on using said airships offensively I suggest you look at what a single .303 Vickers gun mounted on a WW1 biplane could do to an airship and extrapolate that to eight .303 Brownings or four 20mm Hispano cannons.

Even if we take your dim witted idea you've still got the whole RN issue before you can consider a Anglo-German 'peace'... and don't you dare start babbling about Seelowe...
 
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