There are, however, a number of notable differences between the Zeppelin NT and the airships of those days, as well as between the Zeppelin NT and usual non-rigid airships known as blimps.
Postoje, međutim, brojne značajne razlike između Zeppelina NT-a i letjelica tih dana, kao i između Zeppelin NT-a i danas uobičajenih ne-krutih letjelice poznatijih kao blimp.