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Originally Posted by Webstral
Based on the statistics in Airlords of the Ozarks (thanks, Littlearmies), the smaller New American airship cruises at 12 mph and has a range of 380 miles. The larger airship cruises at slightly more than 11 mph and has a range of more than 500 miles.
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Those speeds and ranges seem woefully inadequate in my opinion when you consider the Hindenberg of the mid to late 1930's was as follows:
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General characteristics
Crew: 40 to 61
Capacity: 50-72 passengers
Length: 245 m (803 ft 10 in)
Diameter: 41 m (130 ft 0 in)
Volume: 200,000 m³ (7,100,000 ft³)
Powerplant: 4 × Daimler-Benz diesel engines, 890 kW (1,200 hp) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 135 km/h (85 mph)
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Admittedly it was much larger, but even so, a machine built with 60+ year old technology able to move 10 times faster and regularly cross the Atlantic?