The airship once belonged to the “City of Tomorrow” of mankind, indeed. This not only reproduces the era of airship dominance, the short-lived glory, but also allows us to remember the great contingency of history again.

## About This Game

In this composite photo, the USS Los Angeles nuclear submarine is moored to
the roof of the Empire State Building (Keith de Lellis Gallery LLC)
This game allows players to travel through time and space, carrying a
100-year-old airship, flying through the air through the western land of the
United States, the ruins of Central America, and the fields of Europe in the
1920s.
This kind of experience is no longer available in reality. But it represents a
memory of golden years, so we must use modern VR technology to reproduce it.
Although already in the cold palace, the airship has also been regarded as the
“flying machine of tomorrow.”
In the second half of 1929, Alfred Smith, the former governor of New York
State and the leader of the Empire State Building preparation team, announced
that this magnificent skyscraper would be elevated to the original 1,050 feet
(about The design height of 320 meters) will be increased to 1250 feet (381
meters) upon completion.
The additional 200 feet (approximately 61 meters) is expected to be reserved
for the mooring of the airship. It is expected that after a dock is built on
the top floor of the Empire State Building, a spacecraft comparable to the
“Earl of Zeppelin” [1] can transport passengers directly to downtown
Manhattan-the parked spacecraft “flies with the wind”, and passengers can
travel along Take the springboard on the boat and walk to the street below.
Airships are “lighter than air aircraft”, the first maneuverable and drivable
manned aircraft, and were regarded as the future of commercial aviation at
that time. Smith wanted to make sure that when this day came, his brand new
building in New York City would be a tower of strength.

[Left] An imaginary drawing of the longitudinal section of the Empire State
Building. The mast used to moor the airship runs through the entire building
and pierces the sky. [Right] In 1931, the “Columbia” airship flew over the top
of the mast of the Empire State Building.
Just glance at the Manhattan skyline and you can see that the Empire State
Building rises above Fifth Avenue at 1,250 feet, enough for a Zeppelin tonnage
airship to anchor; however, no airship is visible on the roof. Not long after
1929, airships and similar aircraft quickly fell out of favor and were no
longer the preferred tool of air passenger transportation, but instead used
for sports event recording and advertising, just like those balloon airships
we see today.
This decline was partly caused by successive accidents, including the
“Hindenburg tragedy”: 75 years ago, the airship turned into a ball of fire
over New Jersey. [2] However, more importantly, the rapid nicheization of the
spacecraft [3] is mainly because the gaseous filling (※ changed here) used by
the airship is either too dangerous or too rare: hydrogen is sufficient but
dangerous; helium Gas, safe but rare. In the end, this type of fuel was lost
to the enthusiastic thing used in modern aircraft-petroleum.
Flying is ultimately better than floating.

In 1933, the USS Macon airship flew over New York. The Macon is a Zeppelin
airship that crashed in the Pacific Ocean in a storm of 1935.
Airplanes are now in the limelight, and it is easy for the world to forget
that airships had similar glory. If technology is a Darwinian evolutionary
game, then the airship and its kind have been far ahead for a long time. In
the 1930s, when the Empire State Building was built up brick by brick and foot
by inch, people were waiting and fascinated. In the future, they could play,
drink, dance, and rest in the sky.
Having said this, let’s take a look at the past of the airship-this is an
excellent summary of aligning the Berlin airship and its similar aircraft, a
generous hymn, and recreating the era when the hope of the future was placed
on the airship. They Those things represented.

The content of the old American magazine “The American Magazine” in May 1930

• City of Tomorrow:

In the “City of Tomorrow” depicted in Popular Science magazine in November
1935, airships are people’s daily flying vehicles.

The airship once belonged to the “City of Tomorrow” of mankind, indeed. This
not only reproduces the era of airship dominance, the short-lived glory, but
also allows us to remember the great contingency of history again. The
technology that promotes the progress of human society has both certainty and
uncertainty. We experiment, hypothesize, fail, succeed; then we will conduct
more experiments. Whether it’s the hot air balloon before the airship or the
dragonfly flapping-wing aircraft, which has been fascinating for a while,
airships, like them, have carried human expectations for the future. This
future may have been a dream, and it was once a failure. But it will not stop
at dreams, and will win the final victory, just like the flying footsteps of
human beings, unstoppable.
What are you waiting for? It only takes the price of a hamburger, and we will
return this wonderful immersive memory to the player.

Content notes:
[1]
Refers to the German LZ 127 “Graf Zeppelin” (Graf Zeppelin) airship. The Graf
Zeppelin is the most successful airship in history. It was responsible for
regular flights between North America and South America; it flew on a global
tour in 1929 and flew in 1931. To the North Pole, it was demolished in 1940.
In addition, “Zeppelin” (Zeppelin) is a general term for one or a series of
rigid airships. It was developed by the famous German airship designer, Count
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in 20 Developed on the basis of predecessors at
the beginning of the century. Due to the success of this series of airships,
“Zeppelin” was also used to refer to this entire class of airships at the
time.
[2]
Hindenburg disaster: LZ 127 “Hindenburg” is a Zeppelin rigid airship built by
Germany in 1934. It was also the world’s largest airship at the time. It could
accommodate more than 70 passengers. There are promenades and sofas for
walking. The Hindenburg was also a tool of Nazi political propaganda to
demonstrate the so-called invincibility of the Third Reich and the power of
technology. As a commercial airship, the Hindenburg made 17 circum-Atlantic
flights in 1936. On May 6, 1937, during a flight across the Atlantic, the
Hindenburg exploded over New Jersey, killing 36 people in the accident. Since
then, the passenger activity of the Zeppelin rigid airship has come to an end.

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