When @PPLLAANNEE uploaded their brilliant Aurora Borealis, I was inspired to start dreaming about Arctic exploration. This is the result:

This is my homage to the Norge, a sturdy little semi-rigid airship that made the first successful flight over the North Pole. The explorer Roald Amundsen partnered with Umberto Nobile, an aeronautical engineer and airship pilot, and Lincoln Ellsworth, a wealthy adventurer, to make the attempt on the pole. Their ship was the Italian-built N1 I-SAAN, specially refitted and rechristened "Norge" for the expedition. The crew of 16 successfully piloted the Norge from Svalbard to Alaska over the course of four days in May of 1926. The ship was disassembled and transported back from Alaska to Italy. It never flew again.

This version is built nearly to the correct scale, and has a reasonably similar performance envelope. Certain liberties have been taken with the turning radius for the purpose of user enjoyment. The layout of the control car or gondola is based on the original, and controls are functional (an airship is designed to be flown by three or four people, so there are various stations).

Controls:
-Activation Groups 1-3 for engines
-VTOL controls buoyancy
-Roll controls the ship's rudder
-Pitch controls the elevator