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by TheDudeMan 1236 days ago
Bad conclusion. If your airship has become hot enough to burn magnesium alloy, your airship is already dead (as is whatever it landed on).
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For an airship of the size proposed in that post, I don't think I agree. Presumably there would be some measure of compartmentalization, ventilation, and fire suppression so that even if a portion of the craft was stricken, the entire vessel would not be doomed.

But even so, there's going to be a point where there's just too much fuel to keep the fire under control despite best efforts, and the fire-resistant magnesium could certainly contribute to reaching that threshold once you cross a certain temperature. And you cannot simply vent combusting magnesium the way you can vent combusting hydrogen (hypothetically, anyway).