are there any zeppelins stil around to this day?

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Answer: Yes and no. Do you mean airships made by the Zeppelin company or the generic term for airship with a specific structure? There are Zeppelin produced airships flying, but none of them are zeppelins. Confused? A Zeppelin means a filly rigid airship, which means the envelope (gas bag) is held to shape by a structurework rather than just letting the gas push the envelope to shape. The vast, vast majority or airships today including all 3 Goodyear blimps are nonrigid (they operate a website for their blimps which will tell you their entire fleet is non rigid). I believe only the Zeppelin NT has a framework in the envelope, but it is still only semi rigid. There are no zeppelins, fully rigid airships, flying, but the Zeppelin company still produces non and semi rigid airships. Pretty much they won't make rigid airships until we start building them at the size we were in the 30's. Only huge airships need a rigid structure. Also the Goodyear

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