This video began as a Power Point presentation given at the British Airship Association Symposium. We explain the actual history of the rigid airship and discuss ZRS the novel’s speculation concerning what would have happened if the last four famous airship accidents had been avoided. Armed with knowledge of the actual technology, we make informed speculation as to the novel’s USS Long Island design and operation. This begins with the US Navy’s first purpose-built flying airplane carrier design, the ZRCV, and evolves given the world of 1938-1940 still had three major participants in rigid airships' design as World War Two began.
