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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 ธ.ค. 2017
The zrsthemovie.com channel covers the history of the dirigible, with the “Rigid Airships” playlist emphasizing those which carried airplanes. This supports our effort to produce a major motion picture adapted from author Rowan Partridge’s epic historical fiction novel “ZRS”, seen on www.airshiphistory.com. The movie's site examines the factual history of all airships, with emphasis on those that were to be built with the benefit of learning from the USS Macon’s experience. The movie site explains the design process that goes into the creation of the movie’s USS Long Island. Provided links to other sites provide more still images and textual information.
Airship Rescue
Though demonstrated in World War One, US Navy airshipmen did not perfect rescue by airship until after WWII showed the desperate need of this capability. Individual initiative was eventually supported by leadership as the number of stranded airmen and U-boat victims found anti-submarine blimps first dropping rafts and supplies while radioing for help. By 1943 airshipmen had made momentary wheel landings for survivors to scramble aboard. Eventually AT&EC developed ingenious equipment that made the K-type airship a solid rescue vehicle. VADM Rosendahl commissioned a film showing the main techniques and promising that a number of blimps were being converted to rescue ships. However, Congress cut funding, and all this was lost to history.
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The King Ship's Last Flight
มุมมอง 6265 หลายเดือนก่อน
Having reached the practical limit of upgrades to find and fight the "electro-boats," the King ships, whose design dated to 1938, were relegated to flying with the Reserves in the late 1950s. The final flight of the venerable airship was made by the last airworthy King, ZSG3-43. The Navy made no official motion picture of the event, but Commander Herm Spahr captured the emotional farewell with ...
Last Blimp Mail
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The world's leading expert in airship mail, Dr. Cheryl Ganz, PhD, chronicled the story of the mail that was carried on the last flights made by US Navy airships.
Pearl Harbor: Prevented?
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Vice Admiral Charles Rosendahl tells all in SNAFU, THE STRANGE STORY OF THE AMERICAN AIRSHIP. His first chapter explains in great detail how one airplane-carrying airship could have prevented the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941.
Blimp on Floats
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US Navy postwar experiments tested L-1 with a single, then double float landing gear. Another success that showed great promise, the Navy nonetheless shut down the program.
Magellan of the Air (silent)
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Goodyear’s “Magellan Of The Air” was another feature put together by the company to promote Lighter-Than-Air. Since many theatres in America were only then considering which “talkie” technology to invest in, the film has no added sound. After quickly mentioning the Graf Zeppelin’s round-the-world flight, the film concentrates on Hugo Eckener’s visit to America, with footage of his Ohio dominati...
Experimental Airship Propulsion: Roy Gibbens
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Roy Gibbens, a retired Lockheed engineer, devoted much of his later years to build, refine and promote the use of his design of Cycloidal propellers to motivate airships. Used in marine applications, and proposed to propel airplanes and rotorcraft for decades, Roy alone perfected units capable of revolutionizing buoyant craft motivation and control. Several years before his passing, Roy assembl...
Macon's Radio Broadcast
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Following her shakedown at Lakehurst, USS Macon (ZRS-5) deployed to California’s Sunnyvale Naval Air Station. On Navy Day, Macon took two radio announcers aboard and headed south, where on Navy Day, a remote broadcast was made. A member of the Naval Airship Association allowed us to copy an old record he’s kept of this broadcast. Everything you hear after “Take it away, Macon!” actually origina...
History of Balloons
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Navy Training Film MN-277a, History of Balloons, offers a detailed history of man’s attempts to conquer the air. The otherwise dry material spiced up with a voice actor imitating W.C. Fields, a movie star most of the trainees would have grown up with. The film was made late in WWII before there was enough “sour” helium (recovered, but too impure for airships) to use to inflate training balloons...
Story of the Airship (sound)
มุมมอง 956ปีที่แล้ว
This film, whose script was likely written before loss of the USS Macon but acknowledging the coming LZ-129, marks about the most elaborate, big-budget film Goodyear ever made promoting the rigid airship. Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) was at the time making regular runs between Europe and South America, demonstrating the promise of the transcontinental rigid airship. The large flying boat, then strugg...
Balloons (silent)
มุมมอง 265ปีที่แล้ว
This Goodyear film appears to date to about 1940 (judged by the barrage balloons at the end) but contains historical footage from decades earlier. Combined events in which hydrogen racing balloons are erected amid Army fighter and bomber demonstrations are seen. Famed balloonists - Piccard, Van Orman, Settle and others - are seen in their various ascensions, including the record-breaking high-a...
Naval Aviation
มุมมอง 585ปีที่แล้ว
This series, "Naval Aviation: A Personal History", features interviews with many of the surviving movers and shakers from the first days of aircraft in the U S Navy. In keeping with the treatment of the LTA side of the story, airship contributions are minimalized. One is never told of the alphabetical series of non-rigids DN-1 through J, 1917-1920s. However at least the rigids get some attentio...
The Cargo Airship That Wasn't
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Helium has been, and always will be, too scarce and expensive to vent to regulate lift in airship operations. Designers have explored many concepts to overcome the limitation of helium’s fixed ascensive force in the effort to make a practical cargo airship. One long held hope has been to mate the helium bag to some sort of lifting rotors. One example, the cyclocrane prototype, mounted propeller...
The Airship That Can't Land
มุมมอง 484ปีที่แล้ว
"Here Comes The Navy" was a 1934 American romantic adventure whose crew actually filmed the real USS Macon at her home port of Moffet Field. The film makers had sought to capitalize on the drama of the deadly bungled mooring that had transpired during the USS Akron’s first West Coast trip two years earlier. The accident had created the public perception that the helium airship was uncontrollabl...
Flying Wind Tunnel - Number One (silent)
มุมมอง 410ปีที่แล้ว
Flying Wind Tunnel - Number One (silent)
The R101 swung at its mast at Cardinton 'anchored' to a heavy cricket pitch roller that moved the airship around sedatel as the wind listed.
Germany was a superpower, torn down by wars and blamed for alot of bad things in history. I like history, and from what i have drawn germany scared other countries for how they build up their society and made industrial progress, it still happens today. Get an excuse and declare war. Modern history sucks.
Really like when you guys upload! That idea of Rescue Blimps was great! Could really use the K Ships today.
Nice job, Rich!!
thank you
The End Tragédia
Absolutely fascinating video,and the music is great.Thank you.
Indiana Jones n his pop rode in the Hindenburg...
I worked with this crew. Good group of people
The largest aircraft in the world is now a Zeppelin
Fun fact , the Zeopelins used hydrogen because America controlled the worlds supply of helium, and refused to sell it to the Germans because of the whole Not-See thing. Which led to the fireworks show in Jersey, which some Germans blamed the U.S. for.
Schmidt Skyway
Thank you, I enjoyed this tremendously! My father was an LTA pilot and served at Lakehurst and Glynco.
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Le Monde dans cette annes de 19em en na vue de toutes les couleur jusco ovnis
Un Shema Incredibileshen...
What was the Macon''s top speed?
It's a better idea than ever, especially if a modern airship dispatched drone aircraft. A $6 million flying aircraft carrier that can travel at 90 mph is a good, affordable idea.
Great time to the Hindenburg dirigible. It circled the world in 20 days and 4 hours. Its first flight to Rio was in april 1936. The Zeppelin Hangar is located on the premises of the Santa Cruz Air Base, a unit of the Brazilian Air Force, in the Santa Cruz neighborhood in the west zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is a hangar, a large building designed to house the German airships known as Zeppelins. It is currently one of the last existing airship hangars and one of the best preserved in the world. Rio Brazil
Fascinating history of this important segment of LTA travel.
Bring back ZPG 2 & 3 W Blimps and Zeppelins again! Re made using the old methods, materials, and the old Zeppelin engines! I.e The Maybach 550 VL.II Gas engines and 1,100 HP DB-602 Diesel engines!
That is cool!
Wasnt it the USAs excuse to join in the war, the govt knew it was going to happen, they wanted to join in on WW11
Hola le puedes colocar subtítulo en español al vídeo por favor
Fantastic footage, wish they would make a come back, would love to have seen one!
Fascinating video!! It’s great to see all this archive footage, thank you 👏
Airships now have a big new future 2024 via NT ZEPPELIN SEMI RIGID AND THE BRITISH HYBRID COMPANY
Don't forget Pathfinder 1.
They would have been such an amazing sight to behold, loved to have seen one
Increíble quizá con 4 motores de esos, podrías tener una precisión de vuelo en zonas urbanas
lmao so you think they would believe the airship over the radio and not just spout off "Oh it must be some b17s comin in"
There is big difference between detecting "something" on radar, a new and relatively unproven technology, and a code-authenticated first hand eye witness report of a naval assault force steaming through the Pacific. LMAO@U
This is probably responsible for the mystery airship sighting of 1896-97
Pearl was planned to happen. They saw planes on radar and shut the radar down. They had to show the world what the A Bomb could do to the world. Japan said the USA had to many people with guns to invade it.
The Army Air Corp completely failed at Pearl Harbor
My neighbour was in the U.S. Navy, and was a radio operator in airships. They cruised up and down the east coast of the USA looking for German U-boats. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was transferred to the Pacific doing sparks duty on destroyers...
Before the war or during? Before he might have flown on the Akron, Macon or Los Angeles rigid Airships. During he might have flown on the K- Class Blimps - the largest non rigid Blimps the ZPG-2W and 3W Blimps.
@@dabking94.19 Well, before the USA came into the war..Bill joined the US Navy in 1937, and they were cruising off the east coast in an airship, looking down for U boats. That was 1940-1942..
@@timsmith428 So he was probably flying on a K Class Blimp. Thoes were in service during the war until the 60's.
A beautiful concept marred only by the lack of safe helium.
Probably wouldn't have enough lift with helium vs hydrogen for all that luxury stuff.
Great!
Great to see.
Cool.
What's happening now ? "Pop-Culture," with beings who want to destroy and hurt themself and all for what ? Look how magnificent the airship is, a "Castle-in-the-Sky." Honest, thank you.
WOW that blew my mind! The fact that an airship could have prevented Pearl Harbor from being attacked is mind blowing. I've been an airship junkie since I was a kid and never knew this before. I always knew that airships were and still are the can do ships and hopefully this video would help folks to become more confident in airships instead of the tragedies of the past. Awesome video!
Same here. Crazy to think that if the Macon was around then it would have been able to help and assist well before the japanese made it to the harbor/airfields. Really want Airships to make a comeback. I'm talking old style in all not a new "modernized" replica.
@@dabking94.19 I agree I've been an airship enthusiast for nearly 50 years and I would love to see them make a comeback before I leave this Earth.
I wonder why they numbered it ZMC 2. Was there a ZMC 1? I have never heard anything about it if there was.
My father was an LTA pilot. He once told me that for the free balloon training they carried two instruments: a compass and a roll of toilet paper. Of course I laughed! Then he explained the toilet paper -- tear off one sheet and throw it out of the basket. If the TP went up it meant you were descending, and if it went down then you were ascending.
Fascinating archival footage. Thanks for posting.
Marvelous!
非常好视频，爱来自中国
15:40 Sucks that I can't find that specific version of that German folk and hiking song (Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann). Never heard it like that. Especially because of those delighted female vocals. Will I ever hear the full version?
Der Song heist „Der fröhliche Wandersmann“ von munich meistersingers. Kann man so auf TH-cam finden. Guten Rutsch!
@@bnox8058 😁Woah, das hatte ich ja schon längst vergessen. Haben sie vielen Dank, freut mich wirklich sehr. Frohes Neues. ...Na dann wollen wa doch mal kucken was 2025 so zu bieten hat.
Wow that's cool👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎 i love helium balloon🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
they had to destroy it before it would conquer air travel.
The brazilian AF has a publication which shows some photographies of blimp squadrons in brazilian coastal cities. My hometown has a remarkable history of LTA aircraft, as it was visited by german Zepellins on the atlantic routes, and also hosted american blimp squadrons in WWII. The elders still tell stories of blimps dropping bombs on the sea.
Amazing! I just learned about this aircraft today. Such a fascinating machine.