Originally Posted by
Tourist
Nice try, but you brought up storms as a disaster scenario which would doom the airlander. Under the extreme circumstances of the 4 week storm that they cannot avoid, ditching the load is a perfectly reasonable response.
Aside from the fact that an internal load is quite likely to be impossible to jettison, if your bad weather contingency plan is to simply drop the load and drift around like a balloon till the weather gets better, you've departed pretty seriously from a discussion of a practical air transport system.