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we traded this for airplanes, which by the way, falls down from the sky with almost no survivors all the time

Thanks for the great videos. I always enjoy your work

Too bad Methane isn't lighter than air! Because if you had an accident it would really annoy the people on the ground! Lol. 😜

Great video. I have some original photos of the BAWL flying in the summer of 1975. It looks roughly 15% shorter (more oval) than in this video.

Fascinating. Thank you!

Well how did they moor on Empire state builinds and othes. And as well on sea ships? Thanks

I am reading Nevil Shute's autobiography 'Slide Rule' and have so many questions about how airships operated, many of which you have answered in this splendid film. Thank you. Now to get on board!

The R-100! Along with Graf Zeppelin, one of the successful airships. As an American, I give you permission to show the photo the Los Angeles, ahem, 'out of position' while moored. An example of how NOT to do it.

So what happened to the Hindenberg while it was mooring in Lakehurst N.J. in 1937?

I wish zeppelin travel had been possible during my lifetime!

Would really love to travel across the ocean on one of these. What an experience that would be!!

It's so friggin' cool to see such serious attention to detail given to airships. As somebody (with what would have historically been called aspbergers) and an aerospace engineering degree, I've developed a new recent obsession with "Huh. This century old airship thing seems worth a revisit, just out of curiosity, if nothing else." It's amazing, delving into airships and some old books that were the gold standards, how much of the public documentation simply froze with Hindenberg and never continued. Simple animations like this are incredible given how relatively sparse the field is nowadays!

It's pronounced as 'saint uhbear'. It's French.

I'm surprised the 'occupiable' area was that large.

Ur! What happens when people wanted to take a shit or have a shower. Would love to see these vessels fly again though

Can you even begin to imagine the stench permeating the clothing, hair, etc, of anyone coming out of the smoking room? Perhaps a hundred people sharing space to accomodate 20-something at a time (who - from the picture - I presume would be packed in rather tightly). I wonder what sort of ventilation set-up - if any - they used.

To me, it's interesting that, given the length of the airship, they didn't extend the passenger areas, including the dining room, salon, smoking room and passenger cabins along the outer hull of the airship, to maximize the view (which, to me, would have been the selling point of this mode of travel), and use the inner parts for ballast, gas, storage, etc. There must have been an engineering reason for this, as other passenger airships had a similar layout. I get that the idea was that most passengers would spend their time in common areas rather than in a sparse cabin, but that seems more like marketing backfill.

It would be interesting to see how the airship sites look today, with before and after sort of telling.

Well. Now everyone needs to check out the astounding 17-minute EPIC song about R-101 called "Empire Of The Clouds" by Iron Maiden. Simply stunning. Trust me . Thank me later.

The color re-creations of the R-100 here are fabulous! The R-100 best known for flying from England to Canada and back again, quite a feat in 1930, and it never crashed. BTW you kids: despite the 5 people depicted in this video, hundreds of folks would be on hand to watch these ships coming in for a mooring.

Very interesting. A topic I have always wondered about. Great narrative and graphics.

Visually stunning and a very clear explanation - thank you!

I’m busy reading “Slide Rule” , the autobiography of Neville Shute Norway. It’s fascinating and details the mammoth stress analysis task by slide rule. I haven’t completed it, but I’m up to the crash of the R101.

Excellent video...incredible graphics.

Beautiful ships. Such a pity they're not with us anymore.

Since i am a St-Hubert historian where the R-100 came in 1930, i couldnt appreciate more this spectacular video rendering of the whole mooring process. In St-hubert those 24 ''Snatch blocks'' where 8X8X8 feets, and they are still there as they where left in the ground (some visible on Google Earth). Cheer, Great work and a big thumb up.

Try saying ‘Airship shed’ ten times

My best friend Nick Mullen sent me here.

remember the novel The Airmen Whi Would Not Die.

I wondered about the interior layout on these. Thank you!

My father, Ernest Wynne Davies, who was a rigger, was in the tail section when the airship crashed. He told me that he literally fell out through the fracture and into the water and swam to the sandbank. He appears in both the crew photos on the film. Thank you for keeping memories alive of these fascinating aircraft. John Davies

I would have loved a small recap of the ending for r101. Never heard of it before and video condensed it to "we all know what happened, it didn't reach xx"

Great bit of information, something many of we curious about airship ingenuity would like to know. Good incentive to get busy with my R100 model. It will look good under my framed original black and white stock newspaper photo, of the R100 moored on the Montreal mast, signed by Mr. Booth yet!

Cool animation

Wonderful video, although airships aren’t my main interest I must say this video has sparked a real interest in them.

Very well made video. However why is there no mention of the R100, built at the same time and a great success. It’s a fascinating story of private verses public enterprise. I recommend you read Neville Schute “Slide Rule”

I wonder if it would be possible to build a replica of just this area as a museum exhibit?

So cool!

5:59 “It was deemed safe because the floors and ceiling were made of Asbestos” LOL

The vintage map of the "British Empire" is hilarious. In 1924, Canada had been a nation (no longer a colony) for 57 years; it's still in the "British Empire" on the map, but only the eastern part... even in 1924, Canada stretched from Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic, extending thousands of kilometres beyond the range shown, so Ottawa wasn't a "far corner" of anything. The intention seems to have been to limit operations to coastal areas - replacing travel by ship, with overland travel continuing by train - so this makes sense, but that hardly covers the far corners of the Empire.

Beautifully done !

Truly excellent effort on this video... may I ask which software was used to create the realistic visuals? I'm in the brainstorming stage of designing a large seaplane.. Thanks

Dr Who brought me here :) th-cam.com/video/HZXUOPrEzE0/w-d-xo.html

It's interesting to see the differences but also similarities in design philosophy compared to the German Hindenburg.

What are all those meters in the crew quarters?

Those illustrations really make it look much nicer than it looks in the photographs. Traveling on that airship looks like traveling in a run-down prison. While I’m sure looking at the ground go slowly by might have been entertaining for an hour or two, the sheer boredom of being trapped in that tiny space with absolutely nothing to do for days at a time must have been awful. At least on a boat you had multiple large and small spaces where all manner of activities could be held, as well as decent kitchens and well-appointed cabins. On an airship, you had…a smoking room.

Lord Thompson's rug really pulls that lounge together

If it doesn't have a large breasted anime woman painted on the side I'm not sure anyone will be interested.

You know I always wondered how they took showers?

I‘d like to mention Bill Hammack‘s (The Engineering Guy) „Fatal Flight“ book and Podcast (read by the author). Many thanks to creators for this marvelous tour!