While it's fun to say the word "blimp" frequently, Goodyear points out that the current fleet of Goodyear blimps are technically semi-rigid airships, meaning they have an internal frame.

Notable mentions here include the semi-rigid Zeppelin NT, the hybrid Airlander 10, and more recently LTA’s rigid Pathfinder 1, which as the name suggests is a pathfinder airship. Of these the ...