Dreadnought HolidayPermit 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.
"You lad!"
"Yessir?"
"See that there?"
"Yessir?"
"Valuable technical experience."
"Are you sure, sir?"
"VERY VALUABLE."
"Yessir?"
"See that there?"
"Yessir?"
"Valuable technical experience."
"Are you sure, sir?"
"VERY VALUABLE."
New-Cleckit Dominie@DreadShips The, er, popular economic principle that the value of something is how much it cost you to acquire?
60sRefugee@ncdominie @DreadShips In that case there should be a distinction between "value" and worth. 😛