Rock God (Iron Maiden lead singer) Bruce Dickinson has invested part of his fortune in a UK-based modern airship company:
The hybrid airship is slightly heavier than air, helium-supported, and generates the rest of its lift via a lifting body design:
BBC News - The new vehicle set to revolutionise the skies
The REAL breakthrough is that, being heavier than air, it doesn't need a substantial ground crew for each landing (like the airships of old) with associated mooring masts and towers and enough space to "weather cock" around the tower. Hybrid airships can "hover" down, using their directed thrust engines like a helicopter, onto any field big enough to accept the footprint.