Permit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.

#FailureFriday

@DreadShips And that's how we invented the articulated airship!

@simonwilliamson @DreadShips
Also known as - the bendyblimp?

(Yes, someone will come along shortly to inform me of important differences between blimps and airships.)

@coprolite9000 @simonwilliamson they removed the keel in an attempt to lighten it - the difference between this and a blimp is perhaps thinner than you might imagine
@DreadShips @simonwilliamson
"Valuable technical experience" indeed!