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Firm seeks airship technology to revolutionise medical supplies delivery

The airship in a hanger. [Silas Otieno, Standard]

It is the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 that was to be the last nail in the coffin ferrying the air travel invention that brought the airship to life.

And it was. At least for commercial passenger flights. Of the 97 people on board, 36 died just when the airship was approaching Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.

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