How big were the Zeppelins compared to the Goodyear blimps?
The Hindenburg was the largest, and it was 804 feet long, more than four times the length of the larger Goodyear GZ-20. Its gas volume was over six million cubic feet, and it had 242 tons of gross lift, enough to carry itself plus seventy passengers, a crew of sixty, diesel fuel for a transatlantic flight, luggage, some cargo and mail, and twenty tons of water ballast that could be dropped in the event of an emergency descent. It was faster, too, cruising at about eighty miles per hour.
