Thomas replied to me:
Confessed, this works mainly for a „Lost Colony“ style of culture … on the other hand, if it would be easy to explain the use of airships for a mainstream culture, you would not have asked the question.
I hope that something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-class_blimp would actually be cost-effective under the exchange rate rules from GT.
One key question is if hybrid-TL vehicles are considered. A TL9 contragrav unit lifting twenty stons is $1,100 in TL9 $, which is $4,400 in TL6 $. Put that into a streamlined metal box with props and you have a cheap and fast VTOL.
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