After entering 1912, the world was a little tense, but it was also calm.

If there is anything sensational, it is the Titanic. The world's largest and most luxurious cruise ship, which belongs to the British White Star Line, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank.

As a direct result, 1,517 of the 2,224 crew members and passengers were killed, of which only 333 bodies were recovered. The casualties caused by the sinking of the Titanic were the deadliest casualties in history, and it caused a sensation in the whole world. In addition, U.S. President Taft, King George V of the United Kingdom, and Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany all issued condolences to express their grief over the shipwreck.

The Titanic disaster is also a shock to the maritime transportation industry, and many shipping companies have strengthened the training of crew members on the response strategies of ships in various situations.

Of course, this is also a remedial test, and for ships that have been shipwrecked, we can only mourn with a deep heart.

Of course, affected by the Titanic shipwreck, the performance of the shipping industry will be affected in a short period of time, but it should recover quickly, because people and goods around the country will not stop.

Of course, the sinking of the Titanic also has an impact on another emerging industry, that is, the aviation industry.

The aviation industry has developed rapidly in recent years, although it is still not the level that ordinary people can sit up, but after all, the aviation industry has incomparable advantages.

According to the most authoritative statistics, the world's aviation industry carried 50,000 passengers and more than 700 tons of cargo last year.

And of these figures, Alitalia accounts for two-thirds of the total.

Speaking of which, as the first aviation company, Italian Airlines has a very high reputation, and after the Swan airship sailed around the world, it resounded all over the world, and everyone knew Italian Airlines.

And the famous Italian Airlines then entered the era of great development. First of all, the banking industry is very willing to lend to it to help it develop. In addition, countries are also very willing to let Alitalia build air stops, so that their countries can also enjoy the convenience of aviation.

Of course, as the aviation industry boomed, so did competitors.

However, these competitors have not yet been able to shake the position of Alitalia, on the one hand, Alitalia has rich experience in aviation management, and secondly, Alitalia has enough friendship in the field of airship manufacturing.

At present, in the field of airship manufacturing, Germany and Italy have an absolute advantage. At present, the only companies that can manufacture giant and large airships are the Zeppelin Company of the two countries and the Naples Airship Manufacturing Company of Italy.

Britain, France, the United States and other countries, because of their late technology and research and development, are not able to manufacture large airships, let alone giant airships.

And small and medium-sized airships are not able to get involved in the most lucrative intercontinental voyages.

Therefore, this also leads to the fact that the two airship manufacturers that are filled with orders from Alitalia can only give up the orders of other airship companies first.

As a result, this has also contributed to the supremacy of Italian Airlines in the aviation industry.

It needs to be said here that the airships that are currently transporting are all helium.

Although this has pushed up the cost of airships, airlines have taken a tacit attitude towards it, and no one has thought of using cheap hydrogen.

It is not unthinkable that two years ago, when the aviation industry was booming, a newly established airline filled the purchased airship tank with hydrogen for cost considerations, and then it was stabbed in the newspaper. As a result, the newspapers reported it as having passengers fly with bombs on their heads, and the airship company then cooled down.

As for whether there are other airlines behind this, it is unknown. Since then, however, airlines have never thought of using hydrogen again.

In fact, it does not use hydrogen, which is a very good thing for airlines. Because it is very dangerous for the airship to have problems in the air. As long as one thing happens, it endangers the entire aviation industry.

As a pioneer and main beneficiary of the industry, Alitalia will not allow any airline to make a move that threatens the entire industry.

At present, in addition to military airships, at the level of civilian transportation, it is helium airships that dominate the world.

It is also because of the use of helium airships by various airlines that the helium process has also been greatly developed. After all, the excessively expensive helium is a big burden on airlines, and it can reduce the cost of helium refining, which is also good news to promote the development of aviation.

To this end, Italian oil companies have invested a lot of money to upgrade the helium extraction process, making Italian oil companies the world's largest helium supply giants. It also makes the price of helium 18% lower than before. This can also be regarded as a basis for promoting the large-scale use of airships, which provides convenience.

So although I don't want to admit that the sinking of the Titanic gave impetus to the aviation industry, this is the case.

At present, the number of customers flying across continents is explosive, and the previous 10-day fixed-point flights from Europe to North America have been changed to 7-day flights.

Italy now has three intercontinental air routes, the first and most profitable of which is the Europe-North America route from Rome to Paris to London to New York to Chicago.

The second is a Europe-South America round-trip voyage from Rome to Paris to Recife to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires. Although this route does not make as much money as in North America, there are also many wealthy people in South America, and the profits it brings are something that Alitalia cannot ignore.

The third, the Europe-Asia route, is the longest of the three intercontinental voyages. From London, take a round-trip sailing from Paris to Rome to Baghdad to Mumbai to Kolkata to Singapore to Pontianak to Shanghai to Tokyo.

It has a range of more than 20,000 kilometers and takes 13 days. The route has only been opened for half a year by Italian navigation, and the effect is not bad, facilitating the travel between Europe and Asia, and reducing the pain of sea turbulence.

In addition to these extra-long intercontinental routes, other short and medium-length routes are also good. What Paris-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow, London-Paris-Rome-Cairo, Berlin-Vienna-Istanbul and other routes provide people with many choices.

With the increase in the number of airships and the increase in flight routes, the public's sense of shock to airships has also decreased a lot. It's hard to see that speechless looking at the airship in astonishment.

In addition to civilian use, airships also play a significant role in the military field. In addition to transport tasks, the role of airships in other areas of the military has also been recognized by the militaries of various countries. The British Army formed its first airship unit, which was to attack the enemy from the air.

Needless to say, the reconnaissance of airships has always been an important lesson in naval tactics.

The same is true for France, which has formed its own airship forces on both land and sea.

The same was true of Austria-Hungary, whose airship units had been formed two years earlier. Even Russia, which was considered technologically backward, formed its own airship unit.

Since so many countries have formed their own airship troops, as the main countries in the production of airships, Germany and Italy are of course no exception.

The German military currently has the largest number of airships, and the Italian military has no less.

So the airship became the darling of various countries in this era with the help of some behind-the-scenes promoters. Countries that do not have airships will be considered to be unable to keep up with the times.