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What geographic characteristics for a world would be needed/be most beneficial for airships ...
There is one kind of planet on which airships remain feasible and heavier-than-air craft are not: one with an extremely thin atmosphere. … Turbulence and wind shear are, in our atmosphere, exceptionally dangerous for airships. …
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Arctic Airships, Part 2 - Navigation
Some good answers already on navigational methods, but there's one question - and it's a non-trivial question if you're being realistic - that you will need to answer: what kind of charts would your airships … If the airships have been traversing the polar regions, they would have likely settled on polar azimuthal projections; if they have been keeping out of polar regions, they would have been able to develop …