> We can call it an "airship".

Yeah, let's make a huge one and call it the Hindenburg! That sounds like a foolproof plan.

Too bad that there hasn't been decades of materials science improvements, including and in particular to handling flammable materials, between some highly propagandized disaster and today.~

(Almost every modern cruise ship is bigger than the Titanic, imagine if people acted like the Titanic was the last word on how big a cruise ship could get.)