@@Sinflair Site seeing , fresh air , a balcony if the design has it , parachute training with out having to use a crude by plane - zeps stay with in the oxygen area - planes go above the oxygen level , the big ones
@@Sinflair not really unless you wanna sight see and go slow. the best way i can describe it is. flying in a airship is like being in a boat its slow and rocks around like its floating on water. the only advantage i can think of a modern day airship if advertising and tours. there are a few cargo projects like the airlander but nothing good has come from it.
Part of why the event is so memorable is because of the event being filmed and also broadcast on radio. Since then the audio and visual have been combined to create a video that is like a live TV broadcast.
@@Antoine7881 I've seen more than a ton of videos of the plane over the years, even have them fly near my house a few times a year doing training missions. But I would love to get Simon's 20 minute breakdown on arguably one of the toughest, most unique war planes to take to the skies.
ONLY plane built UNDER budget, AHEAD of schedule, and still the USAF really really didn't want it. (Any of the ground-pounders love it though). I worked for the Flying Tigers and the pilots were almost unanimous: When first assigned, they were heart broken at missing out on the F-15,16 fast movers. Fly High, Fly Fast, Fox 3 every blip. Then they learned those guys were strictly forbidden to maneuver much. Flying fast up high wasn't really flying, it was directing autopilots. However, the A-10 pilots were told, if you're looking out of the cockpit, the tree tops should be above you, and acrobatics is Job 1. Stick and Rudder and have actual eyes on the guys on the ground you're helping.
@@edrdnc6706 still to this day one of my favorite videos that pertained to the A10 was a budget hearing that McCain was apart of. I thoroughly enjoyed watching him vehemently argue the points on why the A10 shouldn't be retired. And 2 of the biggest points is what you just stated, he had talked to both the pilots that flew them and the men on the ground that relied on their support. And it was unanimous across the board, they all felt that the plane was integral to the operation.
This might be an odd one to request but how about one on the removal of the Costa Concordia. I know there are larger cruise ships and this channel tends to focus on single objects rather than events but I can't imagine the removal of that wreck was anything less than difficult.
The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner was finally pulled upright off the Italian island of Giglio on Tuesday 17 September 2013 following a 19-month salvage operation, the biggest such project ever attempted - led by South African salvage master Nick Sloane.
Consitancy. A rare thing seem these days. That price should never change. It must be cherished and protected from this pandemic upheaving world. I want the confidence that in 2050 and beyond. A first class air fare will still be $7000
I’ve been to the abandoned Avro Arrow facility a couple hours north of Toronto, there isn’t much left there other than some piles of rubble, but everyone in the town has a great story or family history relating to the Avro Arrow!
My grandfather worked for them as an accountant. It was a fun family thing to let him have a few drinks, ask him about it, and watch him go. Not in a mean way, but he rarely spoke of anything as passionately as he did that whole debacle.
This would be fascinating. If I remember correctly, some of the original builders remade the designs and maybe a scale model? Something like that, I think. Also, as a Canadian I would love to learn more about this plane and the moronic decision to destroy it).
Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video.
This is a good one. How every resource and thought went into the ultimate telescope only to fuck it up. Then fix it. Then revel in just what it revealed. Stupid committees. A horse designed by a committee is a camel.
Just a little correction, Simon: the Hindenburg's sister ship was the Graf Zeppelin II, which never entered service. The original Graf Zeppelin, transporting passengers at the time, was an older generation airship. Interestingly, the Graf Zeppelin was somewhere over the Atlantic returning from Brazil when the Hindenburg crashed. Its flight crew was informed of the disaster by radio and decided not to tell anything to the passengers until their arrival in Germany.
I did a portion of my Navy training in the huge hangar next to the spot where the H burned and crashed. We assembled each day just yards from where the mooring mast was. They took the bodies, and the wreckage, into that hangar. It is haunted AF! So many strange sightings and apparition reports over the years. We had an incident while I was stationed there.
So, to help you out here; A blimp is an inflatable vehicle that gets its shape from the pressurized gases that fill it. Without an internal rigid shape of its own, the lighter-than-air vehicle deflates when that gas isn't present. Unlike blimps, zeppelins have rigid frames that retain their shape whether or not they are filled with gas.
Actually, blimps are airships, but are not zeppelins. Basically, all powered lighter-than-air craft are considered airships, regardless of hull construction. Then, there's rigid (zeppelins), semi-rigid, and blimps. Dirigible means it's steerable, and also does not refer to the hull construction.
Here's a suggestion just to see how you do with pronunciations: the towering Mackinac Bridge linking the peninsulas of Michigan! It brought a boost in tourism to the Upper Peninsula, and made transportation from the industrial south to the forested north much less cumbersome.
Daryl Lect you just had to bring Trump into this one too. It is astonishing how people make the leap to bring Trump into every youtube comment section.
How do we make suggestions? I would like to put the Cheyenne Mountain Complex and its east coast counterpart the Raven Rock Mountain Complex on the list.
Thanks for the advice. So for Simon, CMC is the underground home of NORAD built under 2000 feet of granite. RRMC (which locals call the Underground Pentagon) is also a bunker built into a mountain designed to hold thousands of Defense Department staff in the event of nuclear war. The site was activated after 9/11 and it is rumored Dick Cheney was moved there at the time for his safety.
@@matthew.datcher - Or for our safety. I remember when Reagan was shot, and Al Haig jumped before cameras and said, "Don't panic! I'm in charge!" and we all panicked.
Simon, Can you cover the B2 bomber, it may not be as big as the B52 bomber but it is one if the few flying wings to enter production and could make for an interesting video
Back in 1988, I made parts for that dog. Every damned drawing, marked as "unclassified", identified the parts as a "bracket". To this day, to me, the B-2 is the "flying bracket"!
Those times traveling was really a life changing experience. The Hindenburg had Restaurant (with galley), Bar, (complete with a piano!), smoking cabin, sleeping cabins, shower, observation windows that could be opened. It was so stable, you could barely notice it was moving. There were 2 crew members whose job was to keep it leveled. Too bad the Hydrogen tragedy. Travel times were not bad, considering there were no commercial airplanes then capable to go over the Atlantic without stop to refuel, and were considerably less comfortable. Compare that with any airline today.
I had to back up and work it out where here went: Kylie? Near Skipton? Look North (local BBC News bulletin) typically get it right (cf. Sowerby {Bridge) act. 'Sore-by' {Bridge})
How is it you guys pronounce "Torpenho"? Was down there once and found it really hard to find the place. Especially as I didn't know how it was pronounced...
@@letoubib21 Why do you people always have to put politics into non political shit conservative and liberals alike can't refrain them selves from being morons
i would LOVE to see more Airships! ... saw a couple as a child & it was always a breathtaking sight to see them float over a city! shame they are soo rare these days!
Iron Maiden did an epic 13-minute rock song about the R-101, "Empire of the Clouds". It's not quite "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" but it IS quite good.
I will go check it out but i didnt get a lot exited over the book of soul and the album with the skull astronaut. Did only one playtrough of each and none of the songs hooked me. I like almost all their other albums, or some song on them. Paul was a nice start, then Bruce did some magic!Even those with your boy with the Blaze that so many ppl hate had gems... dont look in the eyes of a stranger is good, the clansman is good Como Estais Amigos is good... at least to my ears! I guess its time to relisten to the more recent stuff to see if i can have a spark of interest on some of them! Up the irons!
Not wanting to sound nit-picky as it's great that you mentioned Empire of the Clouds, but it's even more epic at something like eighteen minutes. Bruce on piano, and, for me, the highlight of the album. "We're down lads, came the cry, bow plunging from the sky , Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die..." The weirdest thing about Simon's video here is that (unless I wasn't paying attention), he didn't mention Herbert Morrison's legendary live radio coverage of the disaster. Oh, the humanity!
Technically, the Hindenburg and other Zeppelins weren’t blimps. The Zeppelins had rigid frames, where with the outer skin of doped cloth over the frames, they could maintain their shape without the airbags within the frame being inflated. Blimps are specifically non-rigid airships that require the airbag be inflated to retain its shape. The word blimp itself is a bit of an onomatopoeia; the story goes a British soldier approached an inflated British military airship and flicked it with a finger, the sound produced by him flicking the airship sounded like “blimp”, almost like the cartoonish sound used for big drips of water. The U.S. Navy’s rigid airships, the Akron and Macon, were pretty amazing despite their crashes. They were sister ships of the same design, and contained hangars within their rigid frames that could hold 5 small scout airplanes that could were used to expand the search range of the airships. These scout planes were Curtis F9C Sparrowhawks, which only had an armament of 2 x .30 inch Browning machine guns. The Akron only flew for about a year and a half, before crashing in a storm in the Atlantic which resulted in 73 deaths and 3 survivors; the Macon flew for about a year & three quarters, when she crashed in a storm in the Pacific, off the coast of Monterey, which resulted in only 2 deaths (one sailor died jumping from the airship when she was still too high above the ocean’s surface, and the other died going back in to try & retrieve personal belongings), the other 64 crew members survived, due in part to the addition of life jackets & inflatable life rafts after the crash of the Akron.
One of those Curtis F9C Sparrowhawks was on display at the Navel Aviation Museum in Pensacola Florida. It had not been on the board at the time of the crash and was preserved.
@@robertphillips6296 The last intact Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk was at Pensacola NAS. It has been transferred back to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum collection at Dulles Airport.
Eric Criteser Dirigible basically means steerable in French. Balloons that are at the mercy of the direction of the wind aren’t; but airships, be they blimps or rigid, are powered, and have flight control surfaces to help steer and change altitudes.
They can use the title as an honorific. Military officers are referred to by their former ranks after retirement. One more example: a lieutenant governor can be referred to as Governor.
A Mythbusters fan myself, I saw that episode. Different layers of the paint contained (separately) iron oxide and aluminum powders. When combined in the correct proportions, these two powders make thermite. Thermite burns hot enough to melt/weld railroad tracks. The theory was that thermite was spontaneously created and burned in the fire itself, IIRC. So, yeah. The Mythbusters' experiments showed that hydrogen burned, the skin burned, but their scale model burned ferociously when all the ingredients met: hydrogen filled model, several layers of paint containing iron oxide and aluminum powder, and an ignition source.
@@nlwilson4892 I know the theory and that having the right proportions is key for thermite (as for most if not all chemical reactions & compounds). The Mythbusters' experiments showed a measurable increase in flame propagation rate and ferocity of the fire with the reproduction scale model with the various layers of paint versus their intermediate and control scale models. Given that it was a television program and all that, I'll take their film evidence and results with a grain of salt. It is as plausible as not. Any other theories to counter the spontaneous thermite one?
@@frederickevans4113 Well thermite still needs an ignition. Static build up and the frame grounding when the rope was dropped would have been quite sufficient for the hydrogen to ignite. Although I'll accept that some form of thermite ish reaction could have made that much worse.
Great episode! Airships were routinely crossing the Atlantic when Lindbergh "first" crossed. All he did was do it solo, an irrelevancy as hardly anyone does that these days. But please do an episode on NASA's airborne observatories, the KAO and SOFIA.
Single seat fighters cross the Atlantic (and the pacific for that matter) regularly. Of course in flight refueling is needed for some trips. It's a huge difference doing the trip at 600 knots though.
I rank that phrase among the most terrifying sounds in all of video games. Because you know it's not yours. You know it's out there. You don't know where it is. And you know there's never just one.
@@invaderraven1 I believe they are called semi-rigids in that they have a frame but the envelope's shape is supported by gas pressure. A true rigid has internal gas bags of course with its external shape supported by a frame.
@@Rutlefan you are correct with the new zeplinss they have the rigid structure in them and the engines are attached to them. They also have a helium truck fallow them everywhere because its leaks alot.
@@invaderraven1 Since the cruise speed of the Zeppelin NT is much higher than the maximum speed trucks are allowed to drive in Germany (not to mention that it's not limited to roads), that's likely an urban legend.
. The Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic in 1928 well before the Hindenburg, or even a building shed larger enough to construct it was completed. Graf Zeppelin even had to do so to begin her audacious round the world voyage on behalf of the sponsor William Randolph Hearst. She even did the runs to Rio De Janeiro for years with that spotless safety record you mentioned, only being pulled out of service after the Hindenburg crash killed the market for such passenger flights. the British R100 was another, larger airship that also crossed the Atlantic with passengers well before Hindenburg, but thanks to poor engineering of the R101 sister ship, and generally the mistakes made by the Allied nations trying to improve on the German designs in the wake of the Great War, even by the Zeppelin company aided designers of the American Navy's Akron and Macon, all previous to the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin II the weaknesses of the basic design and its flight regime limitations were exposed. That great safety record of Ernst Lehmann and Hugo Eckener came at a price. Very careful avoidance of bad weather conditions for all of the company's flights or taking long swings around known storms using radioed weather reports from ships at sea. Other government subsidized builders attempting to match the Zeppelins assumed it was much easier than it really was, and so propaganda was just the icing on the cake of the amazing PR for that mode of travel in that time. After all, William Randolph Hearst was a master of the PR game, and those wealthy elites bought into it. I as well as others have spent years studying literature about this era, trying to understand the reasoning behind the great expenditures in the building of these airships so many of which were downed within a few years. Unlike some others I have become quite convinced that the weather problem will not be overcome for any true commercial uses of these giants. Some military or defensive high altitude drone airship uses might become justified, but for commercial and passenger uses these vessels, limited to altitudes where the great lifting capacity is useful, have to stay away from weather extremes and we are getting more and more of those as we continue to expend the very fossil fuels that enable large quantities of helium to be cheap enough for such uses.
Additionally, the British R.34 crossed from England to Canada in 1919, the first east to west crossing by an aircraft of any type, and on its return became the first aircraft to make a double crossing.
The image at one minute and 30 seconds is the DLZ 130 “Graf Zeppelin” (2)! Look at the Engine nacelle! get your image and narration on the same page Guys The gas cells of the Hindenburg were built by Goodyear???!!! That’s a new one on me!
@@nautilusshell4969 As one British Airways pilot put it to a Lufthansa pilot: Because you lost the bloody war. Not you specifically but the spirit pretty much is there.
6:06 The Hindenburg was *not* the first Airship to make a transatlantic flight. The Graf Zeppelin airship broke world records with the fastest aerial circumnavigation of the planet in 1929, before the Hindenburg was even built.
I always forget that the Hindenburg had massive swastikas on the back 😅 I wonder if our perception of the crash would be different if that famous video were taken from the back...
Years ago I lived in Philly and spent some time helping an elderly Jewish man use his home computer, which were a new thing at the time. One day he came over and I mentioned I had just watched a show on the Hindenburg. He said he'd seen it fly overhead and how disconcerting it was, as a Jew, to see the swastika.
My dad was there when the Hindenburg crashed. He said, I heard a click, then immediate wooshing sound, followed by the flames and intense heat. His theory it was a stray piece of lightning or static electricity because of the initial clicking noise. When the ground crew had some problems with the control ropes. several spectors, including my father lent a hand. My dad said, "Then, we ran like hell."
What an experience! Definitely historical. My great uncle survived the San Francisco quake in 1906 while a patient in the Southern Pacific Railroad Hospital.
Hugo Ekner had his own theory about the crash. He claimed Pruss' tight turns may have snapped a bracing wire causing a gas leak. I wonder if your father's click and wooshing sounds give evidence to this. We'll never know.
@@tomlewis2880 The biggest problem was the H2 itself, H2 has tiny molecules which can even go through steel tanks. So there can be a fire without a leak. This was a disaster waiting to happen earlier or later. The only safely usable gas for this purpose is Helium, and only the US had enough Helium back then (it was used in ships like the Macon and the Akron)
Saw a documentary about this years ago, the scientists and engineers usually used a non conductive spray on the outside of the airship. Because the Hindenburg was supposed to be the best of everything they went to the trouble of developing a brand new non conductive spray. It was essentially rocket fuel. The Hindenburg wasn't so much an accident as it was an inevitably. Evidence for this mistake was pointed out from the eye witness accounts of the fire, it was orange, Hydrogen burns blue. The fire was orange from the start - hydrogen was fueling it, but wasn't the cause.
The first transatlantic zeppelin flight was done by R34 in 1919, followed up by Graf Zeppelin in 1928, then R100 in 1929 making it to Canada. At any rate I really hope that proper zeppelins do make a comeback, I've always loved the dang things to pieces.
The US Public Broadcasting television science program, "Nova", had an excellent episode about this very accident. They found a roll of film shot from a different angle to most that we have seen before, (as all of the news people were in one location, whereas the photographer was a "civilian" located about 500 yards away, in a different direction). These showed that it was indeed a matter of static electricity caused by the rain on the Hindenburg's back. They next went to a physics professor who showed that the actual construction methods were at fault and the whole event COULD have been avoided by a minor change in how it was made.
Great vid gang. Interesting extra point: the hangars used to house these continue to be the largest buildings by volume ever built. Think one in Germany is now an indoor beach resort. There’s o r In Rio still too I think
@dan cussin I remember there was a "fold-in" on the last page, where if you folded the sides in, the picture and caption would change to something else (often ironic or satirical). Oh, the folding I did in my youth!
British R101 - the biggest airship (at the time), and the deadliest crash among passenger airships (ever). Result: British -> Let's quit building rigid airships. Germans -> Let's make it even bigger!
Brits: "Oi we built an airship" Also Brits: "Yeah but can it fly over the English Channel in a thunderstorm?" Still the Brits: "Well let's find out, ALL AHEAD FULL" R101: "I'm going to kill all of you"
@Stuart Aaron It's more than just faulty design. There was a pressure from the military (Lord Thomson's prestige), and too many innovations, and bad weather etc.. Of course R100, after successful Transatlantic flights, did not deserve to be scrapped. But still, it was a hydrogen airship. And, I believe, sooner or later the result would be the same.
@Stuart Aaron just to add, I like the reaction on R101 disaster from Russians. G.Tarapkin (the head of the Soviet Airships Research and Development) said that the main reason the Brits failed with R101 was the lack of knowledge and experience. Funny thing, the biggest Soviet airship "USSR V-6" ended up in flames after crashing into the hill.
I was born at Lakehurst NAS. After airships, Lakehurst became the focal point of building the Navy’s first helicopters. As one of the Navy’s best aviation mechanics, Dad got to work literally side-by-side with Igor Sikorsky and Frank Piasecki, the fathers of American helicopters. He said it was always his favorite duty station. He was always so proud of a picture of Him with his fellow sailors and Sikorsky and Piasecki. Dad got to fly the first squadron of Navy helicopters to the west coast. The early helicopters only moved at about 30 miles per hour. They literally followed the highways west. Not too far off the ground. Cars would often challenge the helicopters to a race. Dad always said Lakehurst was his favorite time in the Navy. PS. I would always tell friends...two disasters at Lakehurst: the Hindenburg and my birth. I always love going back and seeing those magnificent hangers.
On the Oregon Coast there is an air museum in a blimp hanger. There used to be two hangers, but one burnt down. Up until the late 20th century, they were the world's largest wooden span buildings. One of them was in a James Bond movie where they flew an airplane through it. Also illusionist David Copperfield did a TV special in one of them, making a train disappear.
Please do a video on the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts!! It’s one of the most historic, miraculous civil engineering achievements that’s no one’s ever heard about!
It’s the longest train tunnel (and the longest transportation tunnel of any kind) east of the Mississippi. It was constructed during the Civil War and is still in use today. When the two drilling teams met in the middle, they were only 9/16 of an inch off-an incredible civil engineering feat even to this day. And, yes, it is supposedly super haunted...but that can be for another channel!
THANK YOU SIMON FOR NARRATING THIS STORY VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO AND YOUR TIME. JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 🙂🤗😷😁👌👍👍👍🚂😁
I was at Lakehurst for some training while in the Navy. Got a look inside a remaining airship hangar, which was massive. It dwarfed the people and aircraft inside. I was told that the Hindenburg had used that hangar, but due to its length, the nose and tail stuck out of the doors at either end. Would have been a sight to see.
Yes, tell the research assistant who told you the hindenberg was the first ship across the Atlantic to do their homework next time. The Graf Zeppelin made the trip regularly, and in fact made it around the world before the Hindenberg flew, in 1929 vs 1937 for Hindenberg.
SUGGESTION: Simon, there's definitely a trend here when you do aviation, military hardware or any type of massive vehicle. Please keep it up, much appreciated!
Graf Zeppelin (1) flew around the World before Hindenburg was even designed! GZ (2) was used for a spying mission only weeks before WW2 began, with the mission of trying to find out how successful British Radar had been to that point. The German’s however were listening in on the wrong radio frequencies probably based on their own research into Radar.
Historical note: John F. Kennedy international Airport was named for JFK in December 1963 Prior to that it was commonly called Idlewild Airfield though it's official name bounced around a bit over the years. I grew up 15 minutes from it in the 60s. Thanks for this video. Hindenburg has always been a favorite topic of mine.
Man....I miss the old Goodyear blimps of the late 70's and early 80's. They used to come every summer to my state and I always had a camera on hand and ready to go. Those were the best times in my childhood! Now, ya only see mostly tiny little jets, a size of an ant, flying above you and ya gotta squint just to see them. A blimp flies low enough to take a gander at it with no problem 😊
the pronunciation of "die Deutschlandfahrt" just killed me XD. love these historical stories tho' keep up the good work!
The one that made me laugh was Keighley, never heard it pronounced Kylie before. Should be keeth-lee
@@petemelbourne42 made me chuckle too!
@@petemelbourne42 - I was going to give him a pass on that, but you seem to confirm my inner voice. I would say, "keely" or possibly "key-lay".
"Fahrt" Why are farts always funny?
What is "die Deutschlandfahrt"? I think you meant the "Dei Duschändlefahrt", mate.
1:53 "Kirov reporting." "Bombardiers to your stations!" Those things were really deadly, especially when upgraded.
I’d like to hear more about the modern day airships!
What would you like to know. I'm a crewman on A60 and A170 class ships
Part two?
@@invaderraven1 are there advantages of riding a zeppelin compared to an airplane?
@@Sinflair Site seeing , fresh air , a balcony if the design has it , parachute training with out having to use a crude by plane - zeps stay with in the oxygen area - planes go above the oxygen level , the big ones
@@Sinflair not really unless you wanna sight see and go slow. the best way i can describe it is. flying in a airship is like being in a boat its slow and rocks around like its floating on water. the only advantage i can think of a modern day airship if advertising and tours. there are a few cargo projects like the airlander but nothing good has come from it.
Part of why the event is so memorable is because of the event being filmed and also broadcast on radio. Since then the audio and visual have been combined to create a video that is like a live TV broadcast.
Need a video on the A10 Warthog. The only plane literally built around a gun.
Brrrrrrrt
Check out Real Engineering's video on the A10 Warthog
th-cam.com/video/wk6Qr6OO5Xo/w-d-xo.html
@@Antoine7881 I've seen more than a ton of videos of the plane over the years, even have them fly near my house a few times a year doing training missions. But I would love to get Simon's 20 minute breakdown on arguably one of the toughest, most unique war planes to take to the skies.
ONLY plane built UNDER budget, AHEAD of schedule, and still the USAF really really didn't want it. (Any of the ground-pounders love it though). I worked for the Flying Tigers and the pilots were almost unanimous: When first assigned, they were heart broken at missing out on the F-15,16 fast movers. Fly High, Fly Fast, Fox 3 every blip. Then they learned those guys were strictly forbidden to maneuver much. Flying fast up high wasn't really flying, it was directing autopilots. However, the A-10 pilots were told, if you're looking out of the cockpit, the tree tops should be above you, and acrobatics is Job 1. Stick and Rudder and have actual eyes on the guys on the ground you're helping.
@@edrdnc6706 still to this day one of my favorite videos that pertained to the A10 was a budget hearing that McCain was apart of. I thoroughly enjoyed watching him vehemently argue the points on why the A10 shouldn't be retired. And 2 of the biggest points is what you just stated, he had talked to both the pilots that flew them and the men on the ground that relied on their support. And it was unanimous across the board, they all felt that the plane was integral to the operation.
"Dye Dushandler Fart"? Oh the humanity!
he killed the german language!! revive that dude!
I see what you did
@@trossk I think you were the only one... Thanks!
Somewhere on the globe a sweet german shepherd puppy died for this sin
The douchehandler fart
Do one on ITER... the US$22B multinational fusion project.
Good shout xoxoxox
I second this!!
YES most complex machine in build so far
Simon: "Anyone else here play Red Alert 2? The Zeppelins, they were the weapon of choice."
C&C Fans: "Kirov Reporting."
If I could like this 20 times I would.... Ahhh the good ol' days....
Literally said it out loud the second he mentioned it xD
I still play C&C RA2.😁
I was thinking Orcs from WC2
You had to sneak them around the map.
This might be an odd one to request but how about one on the removal of the Costa Concordia. I know there are larger cruise ships and this channel tends to focus on single objects rather than events but I can't imagine the removal of that wreck was anything less than difficult.
The wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner was finally pulled upright off the Italian island of Giglio on Tuesday 17 September 2013 following a 19-month salvage operation, the biggest such project ever attempted - led by South African salvage master Nick Sloane.
ticket on the hindenberg: ~7,000$
ticket on the concord: ~7,000$
1st class ticket on any airline today: Still 7,000$
somethings never change
Consitancy. A rare thing seem these days. That price should never change. It must be cherished and protected from this pandemic upheaving world. I want the confidence that in 2050 and beyond. A first class air fare will still be $7000
One Hindenburg. 100s of aircrafts in two dozen or more airlines offering 1st class comfort.
Staying home: PRICELESS!
@@thekidfromcleveland3944 you even managed to spell consistency wrong this shows how fucking ignorant you are
I would love to see a deep-dive into the Canadian Avro Arrow! A humble Canuck mega-project.
That was so very Canadian of you
I’ve been to the abandoned Avro Arrow facility a couple hours north of Toronto, there isn’t much left there other than some piles of rubble, but everyone in the town has a great story or family history relating to the Avro Arrow!
This would be a great one!
My grandfather worked for them as an accountant. It was a fun family thing to let him have a few drinks, ask him about it, and watch him go. Not in a mean way, but he rarely spoke of anything as passionately as he did that whole debacle.
This would be fascinating. If I remember correctly, some of the original builders remade the designs and maybe a scale model? Something like that, I think.
Also, as a Canadian I would love to learn more about this plane and the moronic decision to destroy it).
Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video.
Let’s get a video on the Hubble Space Telescope 🔭
YES!!!!!
or the james webb
This is a good one. How every resource and thought went into the ultimate telescope only to fuck it up. Then fix it. Then revel in just what it revealed. Stupid committees. A horse designed by a committee is a camel.
Plus, that would give you a chance to talk to Story Musgrave, which would be A Good Thing.
@@juantelle1 why not both
Just a little correction, Simon: the Hindenburg's sister ship was the Graf Zeppelin II, which never entered service. The original Graf Zeppelin, transporting passengers at the time, was an older generation airship. Interestingly, the Graf Zeppelin was somewhere over the Atlantic returning from Brazil when the Hindenburg crashed. Its flight crew was informed of the disaster by radio and decided not to tell anything to the passengers until their arrival in Germany.
wise decision. I wouldn't wanna know while I was on another zeppelin.
KIROV REPORTING!!!!!!
20 yrs later i still hear them in my nightmares...
It's been my cellphone's text alert since smartphones became a thing
@@KnockoutVirus I need that
Hells march from Frank Klepacki and massive Missle IFV and rocketeers to counter them before it starts raining bombs on your base
And not a word about Led Zeppelin and their first album cover!
Project: The floating tunnel between Denmark and Sweden
You mean the Öresund link? The tunnel from the man made island to the airport is a submerged tunnel, it's not floating.
@@nicolasblume1046 Yes
You left out the reemergence of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company! which was a master stroke of genius itself!
Suggestion: Minuteman Missile Silo system in America. There were a thousand of them and some are still on active duty.
Please consider researching and putting together a video on the CF-105 Avro Arrow. :) Great video. Yes. I've smashed the like button.
i think I-400 sub, Atlantic Wall, Maus super heavy tank and German Flak Tower is a mega project too
Definitely the German flak towers are, it there's enough information available about them to make a whole video that would be awesome.
Sircouf. That thing had TWIN 8 " guns. :o
I did a portion of my Navy training in the huge hangar next to the spot where the H burned and crashed. We assembled each day just yards from where the mooring mast was. They took the bodies, and the wreckage, into that hangar. It is haunted AF! So many strange sightings and apparition reports over the years. We had an incident while I was stationed there.
sorry to say , but Hindenburg was NOT president of Germany in 1936 ... main reason being his death in 1934 .
Yeah, thats how Hitler used his snap replacement to puppet the party to vote his way.
Mohammed Khaled false facts don’t exist. There’s either fact, or there is bs. You can’t have both.
@@ChuckleBuck a false fact is an opinion pushed and viewed as fact.
@@ChuckleBuck it's a curse for the morons who believe them.
@@ChuckleBuck basically your statement is a false fact.
2:15 - "...these flying blimps." Zeppelins, or airships, are NOT blimps!
Ya know, little factoids like this would be of value if one would elaborate. Your comment is halfway to being informative.
So, to help you out here;
A blimp is an inflatable vehicle that gets its shape from the pressurized gases that fill it. Without an internal rigid shape of its own, the lighter-than-air vehicle deflates when that gas isn't present. Unlike blimps, zeppelins have rigid frames that retain their shape whether or not they are filled with gas.
Both may be referred to as dirigibles.
Actually, blimps are airships, but are not zeppelins. Basically, all powered lighter-than-air craft are considered airships, regardless of hull construction. Then, there's rigid (zeppelins), semi-rigid, and blimps. Dirigible means it's steerable, and also does not refer to the hull construction.
Here's a suggestion just to see how you do with pronunciations: the towering Mackinac Bridge linking the peninsulas of Michigan! It brought a boost in tourism to the Upper Peninsula, and made transportation from the industrial south to the forested north much less cumbersome.
That'd be a hoot! Great suggestion. Betwwen the island and bridge spelling difs.😂
@@johnreske1558 Let's ask Trump how he pronounces it.
John Reske The island and bridge are spelled the same, it’s Mackinaw City on the lower peninsula side of the bridge that differs.
English is not my first language, but by golly, an attempt was made!
Daryl Lect you just had to bring Trump into this one too. It is astonishing how people make the leap to bring Trump into every youtube comment section.
I'm glad you mentioned cruise liners and the Titanic because that was my first thought. A lot of things I didn't realise about the Hindenburg
How do we make suggestions? I would like to put the Cheyenne Mountain Complex and its east coast counterpart the Raven Rock Mountain Complex on the list.
He once explained that it's more likely to get picked when you explain why it'd be interesting for a video. He doesn't like the typical just "do this"
Thanks for the advice. So for Simon, CMC is the underground home of NORAD built under 2000 feet of granite. RRMC (which locals call the Underground Pentagon) is also a bunker built into a mountain designed to hold thousands of Defense Department staff in the event of nuclear war. The site was activated after 9/11 and it is rumored Dick Cheney was moved there at the time for his safety.
I’ve been in Cheyenne Mountain Complex. I can tell you why. They just called me Sir.
@@matthew.datcher - Or for our safety. I remember when Reagan was shot, and Al Haig jumped before cameras and said, "Don't panic! I'm in charge!" and we all panicked.
@@tomtheplummer7322 - You're Sidney Poitier?!
Love the c&c reference!! I still play when I can.... great video folks!!!
Simon, Can you cover the B2 bomber, it may not be as big as the B52 bomber but it is one if the few flying wings to enter production and could make for an interesting video
That should be "flying wing", because just about any aircraft with wings has "fixed wings". Helicopters are termed "rotary wing" craft...
The FA-117 would be good too seeing as it was (I think) the first stealth plane and first to use computers for design.
Back in 1988, I made parts for that dog. Every damned drawing, marked as "unclassified", identified the parts as a "bracket". To this day, to me, the B-2 is the "flying bracket"!
Those times traveling was really a life changing experience.
The Hindenburg had Restaurant (with galley), Bar, (complete with a piano!), smoking cabin, sleeping cabins, shower, observation windows that could be opened. It was so stable, you could barely notice it was moving. There were 2 crew members whose job was to keep it leveled. Too bad the Hydrogen tragedy.
Travel times were not bad, considering there were no commercial airplanes then capable to go over the Atlantic without stop to refuel, and were considerably less comfortable.
Compare that with any airline today.
Pressing like for Red Alert 2 reference
Airship reporting
KIROV REPORTING!!
When your playing as the Allies and all the sudden the sky turns dark.
KIROV REPORTING!!
This gun is heavy.
Many thanks for doing this Simon it shows if you ask enough times you do listen and it was worth the wait it was amazing thanks again
Simon, the West Yorkshire town Keighley is pronounced 'Keith Ley!!!'
I had to back up and work it out where here went: Kylie? Near Skipton?
Look North (local BBC News bulletin) typically get it right (cf. Sowerby {Bridge) act. 'Sore-by' {Bridge})
Not like the weird, orange man's Mrs. McEnemy? *;-)*
How is it you guys pronounce "Torpenho"?
Was down there once and found it really hard to find the place. Especially as I didn't know how it was pronounced...
Well said are kid
@@letoubib21 Why do you people always have to put politics into non political shit conservative and liberals alike can't refrain them selves from being morons
i would LOVE to see more Airships! ... saw a couple as a child & it was always a breathtaking sight to see them float over a city! shame they are soo rare these days!
Iron Maiden did an epic 13-minute rock song about the R-101, "Empire of the Clouds". It's not quite "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" but it IS quite good.
I will go check it out but i didnt get a lot exited over the book of soul and the album with the skull astronaut. Did only one playtrough of each and none of the songs hooked me. I like almost all their other albums, or some song on them. Paul was a nice start, then Bruce did some magic!Even those with your boy with the Blaze that so many ppl hate had gems... dont look in the eyes of a stranger is good, the clansman is good Como Estais Amigos is good... at least to my ears! I guess its time to relisten to the more recent stuff to see if i can have a spark of interest on some of them! Up the irons!
Not wanting to sound nit-picky as it's great that you mentioned Empire of the Clouds, but it's even more epic at something like eighteen minutes. Bruce on piano, and, for me, the highlight of the album. "We're down lads, came the cry, bow plunging from the sky
, Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die..."
The weirdest thing about Simon's video here is that (unless I wasn't paying attention), he didn't mention Herbert Morrison's legendary live radio coverage of the disaster. Oh, the humanity!
Great video, Simon. Love all your videos. Never move back home.
I've had to replace so many mice because I've smashed that like button on so many of your videos. Keep up the great content Simon
In 1999, I watched a fascinating documentary about airships coming back, SOON! I was blown away. Still... still waiting...
Technically, the Hindenburg and other Zeppelins weren’t blimps. The Zeppelins had rigid frames, where with the outer skin of doped cloth over the frames, they could maintain their shape without the airbags within the frame being inflated. Blimps are specifically non-rigid airships that require the airbag be inflated to retain its shape. The word blimp itself is a bit of an onomatopoeia; the story goes a British soldier approached an inflated British military airship and flicked it with a finger, the sound produced by him flicking the airship sounded like “blimp”, almost like the cartoonish sound used for big drips of water.
The U.S. Navy’s rigid airships, the Akron and Macon, were pretty amazing despite their crashes. They were sister ships of the same design, and contained hangars within their rigid frames that could hold 5 small scout airplanes that could were used to expand the search range of the airships. These scout planes were Curtis F9C Sparrowhawks, which only had an armament of 2 x .30 inch Browning machine guns. The Akron only flew for about a year and a half, before crashing in a storm in the Atlantic which resulted in 73 deaths and 3 survivors; the Macon flew for about a year & three quarters, when she crashed in a storm in the Pacific, off the coast of Monterey, which resulted in only 2 deaths (one sailor died jumping from the airship when she was still too high above the ocean’s surface, and the other died going back in to try & retrieve personal belongings), the other 64 crew members survived, due in part to the addition of life jackets & inflatable life rafts after the crash of the Akron.
whoa
After all that, you never said dirigible!
One of those Curtis F9C Sparrowhawks was on display at the Navel Aviation Museum in Pensacola Florida. It had not been on the board at the time of the crash and was preserved.
@@robertphillips6296 The last intact Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk was at Pensacola NAS. It has been transferred back to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum collection at Dulles Airport.
Eric Criteser Dirigible basically means steerable in French. Balloons that are at the mercy of the direction of the wind aren’t; but airships, be they blimps or rigid, are powered, and have flight control surfaces to help steer and change altitudes.
I just realized that the opening music sounds like something that would be on SpikeTV. Love the channel. Keep it up.
Stop me if this has been done before, but I've always thought the Berlin Airlift would be a good topic.
@Just Looking I did not know that 😃
Great video, this is a great series, well done!
In the words of CNN the Hindenburg’s last flight was “mostly safe”
Small correction:
No, Paul von Hindenburg was not German President in 1936, as he had died 2 years earlier.
That’s no small correction!
In USA you are still considered a president, even if you are dead or out of office.
Bill so like Obama and George Bush are still presidents? Not former presidents?
@@Bill-zp2mt Not true.
They can use the title as an honorific. Military officers are referred to by their former ranks after retirement. One more example: a lieutenant governor can be referred to as Governor.
Myth busters did a thing on this.
The skin burned, the hydrogen burned, but together they burned like sparklers.
A Mythbusters fan myself, I saw that episode. Different layers of the paint contained (separately) iron oxide and aluminum powders. When combined in the correct proportions, these two powders make thermite. Thermite burns hot enough to melt/weld railroad tracks.
The theory was that thermite was spontaneously created and burned in the fire itself, IIRC. So, yeah. The Mythbusters' experiments showed that hydrogen burned, the skin burned, but their scale model burned ferociously when all the ingredients met: hydrogen filled model, several layers of paint containing iron oxide and aluminum powder, and an ignition source.
@@frederickevans4113 But the aluminium and iron oxide weren't in the right proportions, not even close. I had that thought too so looked it up.
@@nlwilson4892 I know the theory and that having the right proportions is key for thermite (as for most if not all chemical reactions & compounds).
The Mythbusters' experiments showed a measurable increase in flame propagation rate and ferocity of the fire with the reproduction scale model with the various layers of paint versus their intermediate and control scale models.
Given that it was a television program and all that, I'll take their film evidence and results with a grain of salt. It is as plausible as not.
Any other theories to counter the spontaneous thermite one?
@@frederickevans4113 Well thermite still needs an ignition. Static build up and the frame grounding when the rope was dropped would have been quite sufficient for the hydrogen to ignite. Although I'll accept that some form of thermite ish reaction could have made that much worse.
What about the Manchester ship canal. Big project very important and had some controversy at the time.
Huge fan and love the random command and conquer reference. Keep it up!
Great episode! Airships were routinely crossing the Atlantic when Lindbergh "first" crossed. All he did was do it solo, an irrelevancy as hardly anyone does that these days. But please do an episode on NASA's airborne observatories, the KAO and SOFIA.
Single seat fighters cross the Atlantic (and the pacific for that matter) regularly.
Of course in flight refueling is needed for some trips.
It's a huge difference doing the trip at 600 knots though.
"Hello, planes? Blimps here, you win..." - Sterling Archer
"Kirov reporting"
Me - in a mild panic starts building any anti-air defense structures and vehicles!
Get the IFVs out the war factory as fast as possible and build the patriot missiles
Hahaha this made me laugh so hard
The red terror comes!
Darn airships if they got close.
I rank that phrase among the most terrifying sounds in all of video games. Because you know it's not yours. You know it's out there. You don't know where it is. And you know there's never just one.
I can't believe you left out the most interesting part of the story. Parts of the wreckage of R101 were sold to Germany to build the Hindenburg
I believe that some of the metal from the scrapped R-100 was used as well.
To ride the storm, to an empire of the clouds maybe?
Clearly management wasn't superstitious. Or were just cheap?
Blimps are not Zeppelins. They have no internal rigid structure.
The new Goodyear airships have a ridged structure
@@invaderraven1 I believe they are called semi-rigids in that they have a frame but the envelope's shape is supported by gas pressure. A true rigid has internal gas bags of course with its external shape supported by a frame.
@@Rutlefan you are correct with the new zeplinss they have the rigid structure in them and the engines are attached to them. They also have a helium truck fallow them everywhere because its leaks alot.
@@invaderraven1 That's one expensive chase truck!
@@invaderraven1
Since the cruise speed of the Zeppelin NT is much higher than the maximum speed trucks are allowed to drive in Germany (not to mention that it's not limited to roads), that's likely an urban legend.
I live next to Lakehurst and it’s pretty incredible to be inside of the hangar or to be able to stand where it went down.
. The Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic in 1928 well before the Hindenburg, or even a building shed larger enough to construct it was completed. Graf Zeppelin even had to do so to begin her audacious round the world voyage on behalf of the sponsor William Randolph Hearst. She even did the runs to Rio De Janeiro for years with that spotless safety record you mentioned, only being pulled out of service after the Hindenburg crash killed the market for such passenger flights. the British R100 was another, larger airship that also crossed the Atlantic with passengers well before Hindenburg, but thanks to poor engineering of the R101 sister ship, and generally the mistakes made by the Allied nations trying to improve on the German designs in the wake of the Great War, even by the Zeppelin company aided designers of the American Navy's Akron and Macon, all previous to the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin II the weaknesses of the basic design and its flight regime limitations were exposed.
That great safety record of Ernst Lehmann and Hugo Eckener came at a price. Very careful avoidance of bad weather conditions for all of the company's flights or taking long swings around known storms using radioed weather reports from ships at sea. Other government subsidized builders attempting to match the Zeppelins assumed it was much easier than it really was, and so propaganda was just the icing on the cake of the amazing PR for that mode of travel in that time. After all, William Randolph Hearst was a master of the PR game, and those wealthy elites bought into it.
I as well as others have spent years studying literature about this era, trying to understand the reasoning behind the great expenditures in the building of these airships so many of which were downed within a few years. Unlike some others I have become quite convinced that the weather problem will not be overcome for any true commercial uses of these giants. Some military or defensive high altitude drone airship uses might become justified, but for commercial and passenger uses these vessels, limited to altitudes where the great lifting capacity is useful, have to stay away from weather extremes and we are getting more and more of those as we continue to expend the very fossil fuels that enable large quantities of helium to be cheap enough for such uses.
Additionally, the British R.34 crossed from England to Canada in 1919, the first east to west crossing by an aircraft of any type, and on its return became the first aircraft to make a double crossing.
I loved the video on the Concorde and would love to see a video about the A380 and it’s eventual retirement
As a steampunk fan I desperately want to see massive airships roaming the skys.
Living next to a zeppelin hangar, they fly over my house every day 😎
Can't wait for hq VR museum tours where we'll be able to see them take off and fly again 👌👌
yesss same
Ah yes! That'll be awesome 👍 we need a zep emoji..lol😄
But they’re not steam punk…
The image at one minute and 30 seconds is the DLZ 130 “Graf Zeppelin” (2)! Look at the Engine nacelle! get your image and narration on the same page Guys
The gas cells of the Hindenburg were built by Goodyear???!!! That’s a new one on me!
New drinking game: take a shot every time Simon butchers the name of something! :)
Edit: Deutschlandfahrt is a particular favourite!
Die Douchelandafart
He's a twat. Pure and simple. Under-researched, amateur-hour crap.
he even pronounced Keighley wrong.
Also the singular and plural of aircraft is aircraft not aircraftS
Congrats on 300K Subs! Very well deserved!
"Die Deutschlandfahrt" --- what happens when you eat a bit too much sauerkraut during Oktoberfest
Lol.
Pronounced Dee Doytch-land-fart. I don't understand how Simon or his team doesn't do any research on how these foreign terms are pronounced.
@@nautilusshell4969 As one British Airways pilot put it to a Lufthansa pilot: Because you lost the bloody war.
Not you specifically but the spirit pretty much is there.
@@airplanenut89 What's your point? He also couldn't pronounce Keighley. Did the people of Yorkshire also lose a war?
@@nautilusshell4969 Ever heard of a joke?
6:06 The Hindenburg was *not* the first Airship to make a transatlantic flight. The Graf Zeppelin airship broke world records with the fastest aerial circumnavigation of the planet in 1929, before the Hindenburg was even built.
I always forget that the Hindenburg had massive swastikas on the back 😅
I wonder if our perception of the crash would be different if that famous video were taken from the back...
Oh 100%.
Clearly not a fan of Indiana Jones.
Eckner hated it. He reportedly painted over it but was forced to have it re painted by the local party.
Years ago I lived in Philly and spent some time helping an elderly Jewish man use his home computer, which were a new thing at the time. One day he came over and I mentioned I had just watched a show on the Hindenburg. He said he'd seen it fly overhead and how disconcerting it was, as a Jew, to see the swastika.
Yeah right, the pictures of that thing flying over NYC look so surreal
My dad was there when the Hindenburg crashed. He said, I heard a click, then immediate wooshing sound, followed by the flames and intense heat. His theory it was a stray piece of lightning or static electricity because of the initial clicking noise. When the ground crew had some problems with the control ropes. several spectors, including my father lent a hand. My dad said, "Then, we ran like hell."
What an experience! Definitely historical. My great uncle survived the San Francisco quake in 1906 while a patient in the Southern Pacific Railroad Hospital.
Hugo Ekner had his own theory about the crash. He claimed Pruss' tight turns may have snapped a bracing wire causing a gas leak. I wonder if your father's click and wooshing sounds give evidence to this. We'll never know.
@@tomlewis2880 The biggest problem was the H2 itself, H2 has tiny molecules which can even go through steel tanks. So there can be a fire without a leak. This was a disaster waiting to happen earlier or later.
The only safely usable gas for this purpose is Helium, and only the US had enough Helium back then (it was used in ships like the Macon and the Akron)
Saw a documentary about this years ago, the scientists and engineers usually used a non conductive spray on the outside of the airship. Because the Hindenburg was supposed to be the best of everything they went to the trouble of developing a brand new non conductive spray.
It was essentially rocket fuel.
The Hindenburg wasn't so much an accident as it was an inevitably.
Evidence for this mistake was pointed out from the eye witness accounts of the fire, it was orange, Hydrogen burns blue. The fire was orange from the start - hydrogen was fueling it, but wasn't the cause.
Do the G6 howitzer mobile canon produced in South Africa.
The first transatlantic zeppelin flight was done by R34 in 1919, followed up by Graf Zeppelin in 1928, then R100 in 1929 making it to Canada.
At any rate I really hope that proper zeppelins do make a comeback, I've always loved the dang things to pieces.
It’s pronounced “Keith-Lee” not Kylie..
ok Phill
I came here to make this comment, but it's phonetically spelt keef Lee as the gh make a f sound
Chris Bailey you’re correct
I was gonna say...
I noticed that too 😂
Is that Simon hinting at a Decoding the Unknown episode on the Hindenburg? Yes please!
Maybe as a request: The big Tesla factories.
Self-drivable Tesla cars, with a demo of Simon in one.
The US Public Broadcasting television science program, "Nova", had an excellent episode about this very accident. They found a roll of film shot from a different angle to most that we have seen before, (as all of the news people were in one location, whereas the photographer was a "civilian" located about 500 yards away, in a different direction). These showed that it was indeed a matter of static electricity caused by the rain on the Hindenburg's back. They next went to a physics professor who showed that the actual construction methods were at fault and the whole event COULD have been avoided by a minor change in how it was made.
Do the Gerald R Ford class aircraft carriers or Iowa class battle ships
A video about the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge on Interstate 10 could be interesting
Maybe a megaprojects on the Palace of Knossos?
Big fan of all your videos Simone keep it going
Suggestion attempt 3: Nelson Class Battleships
I’d love to see the Iowa class battleships.
@@DevinEMILE i think there is a video on the iowa class on infographics
Well take that under advisement.... Hit it again...
Great vid gang. Interesting extra point: the hangars used to house these continue to be the largest buildings by volume ever built. Think one in Germany is now an indoor beach resort. There’s o r In Rio still too I think
WHAT?! Nothing about the Hindenburg being the cover art on the 1st Led Zeppelin album???
Does anyone remember the Mad Magazine Zeppelin? It was one of those fold-out things made of cardboard.
@dan cussin I remember there was a "fold-in" on the last page, where if you folded the sides in, the picture and caption would change to something else (often ironic or satirical). Oh, the folding I did in my youth!
Love all your videos! Any chance you can do one on the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste storage facility? Thanks!!
Hey dude, duralumin is an Aluminium alloy, not an "early form" of Aluminium
Why is an alloy not a "form" of the metal? Cro-Moly is one form of steel.
Great video and researching Simon & team 👌
British R101 - the biggest airship (at the time), and the deadliest crash among passenger airships (ever). Result:
British -> Let's quit building rigid airships.
Germans -> Let's make it even bigger!
LOL
HA!!!!!@@topfun5417
Brits: "Oi we built an airship"
Also Brits: "Yeah but can it fly over the English Channel in a thunderstorm?"
Still the Brits: "Well let's find out, ALL AHEAD FULL"
R101: "I'm going to kill all of you"
@Stuart Aaron It's more than just faulty design. There was a pressure from the military (Lord Thomson's prestige), and too many innovations, and bad weather etc..
Of course R100, after successful Transatlantic flights, did not deserve to be scrapped.
But still, it was a hydrogen airship. And, I believe, sooner or later the result would be the same.
@Stuart Aaron just to add, I like the reaction on R101 disaster from Russians. G.Tarapkin (the head of the Soviet Airships Research and Development) said that the main reason the Brits failed with R101 was the lack of knowledge and experience.
Funny thing, the biggest Soviet airship "USSR V-6" ended up in flames after crashing into the hill.
I was born at Lakehurst NAS. After airships, Lakehurst became the focal point of building the Navy’s first helicopters. As one of the Navy’s best aviation mechanics, Dad got to work literally side-by-side with Igor Sikorsky and Frank Piasecki, the fathers of American helicopters. He said it was always his favorite duty station. He was always so proud of a picture of Him with his fellow sailors and Sikorsky and Piasecki. Dad got to fly the first squadron of Navy helicopters to the west coast. The early helicopters only moved at about 30 miles per hour. They literally followed the highways west. Not too far off the ground. Cars would often challenge the helicopters to a race. Dad always said Lakehurst was his favorite time in the Navy.
PS. I would always tell friends...two disasters at Lakehurst: the Hindenburg and my birth. I always love going back and seeing those magnificent hangers.
Please Simon do ThrustSSC Land Speed Record holding "car" :D
Thank you for the nostalgic reference to red alert 2, I needed that.
*The Rise and Fall*
Ayyyy nice one ;)
On the Oregon Coast there is an air museum in a blimp hanger. There used to be two hangers, but one burnt down. Up until the late 20th century, they were the world's largest wooden span buildings. One of them was in a James Bond movie where they flew an airplane through it. Also illusionist David Copperfield did a TV special in one of them, making a train disappear.
Please do a video on the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts!! It’s one of the most historic, miraculous civil engineering achievements that’s no one’s ever heard about!
Is that the supposedly haunted one or an I thinking of a different one?
Haha I live right over the border in ny, whats unique about it? I'm always down for a cool road trip
Shoot im 40.minutes from it, im going through it today haha
It’s the longest train tunnel (and the longest transportation tunnel of any kind) east of the Mississippi. It was constructed during the Civil War and is still in use today. When the two drilling teams met in the middle, they were only 9/16 of an inch off-an incredible civil engineering feat even to this day. And, yes, it is supposedly super haunted...but that can be for another channel!
THANK YOU SIMON FOR NARRATING THIS STORY VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO AND YOUR TIME. JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 🙂🤗😷😁👌👍👍👍🚂😁
Oooof. As a Yorkshireman who lived in Keighley… to mispronounce this badly really is a right clanger.
Great videos. Please do one about LIGO/VIRGO gravitational wave detectors.
2:00 Kirov reporting!
Oh shit!
Jesus don't scare me like that
I was at Lakehurst for some training while in the Navy. Got a look inside a remaining airship hangar, which was massive. It dwarfed the people and aircraft inside. I was told that the Hindenburg had used that hangar, but due to its length, the nose and tail stuck out of the doors at either end. Would have been a sight to see.
I realized I’m continually waiting on Simon to yell “What the FUCK, Danny??” right in the middle of every other sentence. #BlazeOn
AM I RIGHT PETER!?
Yes, tell the research assistant who told you the hindenberg was the first ship across the Atlantic to do their homework next time. The Graf Zeppelin made the trip regularly, and in fact made it around the world before the Hindenberg flew, in 1929 vs 1937 for Hindenberg.
As a fellow Brit I’m concerned by Simons mispronunciation of British town names, Keighley (Kee’fley)
His German is MUCH worse 😂 "Dye Dushandlerfart" for "Die Deutschlandfahrt" (Dee Doitchlandfart)
SUGGESTION: Simon, there's definitely a trend here when you do aviation, military hardware or any type of massive vehicle. Please keep it up, much appreciated!
8:00
I thought Keighley was pronounced "Keith Lee".
Agreed. The missus is from there. It's a shithole.
HMS AIR SHIP Simon Whistler. Bet you can’t answer what keeps it afloat?
Love your shows.
I'm fairly certain that the Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic before the Hindenburg.
Graf Zeppelin (1) flew around the World before Hindenburg was even designed! GZ (2) was used for a spying mission only weeks before WW2 began, with the mission of trying to find out how successful British Radar had been to that point. The German’s however were listening in on the wrong radio frequencies probably based on their own research into Radar.
Historical note: John F. Kennedy international Airport was named for JFK in December 1963 Prior to that it was commonly called Idlewild Airfield though it's official name bounced around a bit over the years. I grew up 15 minutes from it in the 60s.
Thanks for this video. Hindenburg has always been a favorite topic of mine.
Dei Duschländerfa? :D
Hillarious pronounciation. Nobody died with dee :D
Hilarious spelling of hilarious. Oh, sorry. English isnt your native language? Likewise Simons isnt German. Get over it or get out.
Strangely, I have been hearing "Zepplins are coming back" since the early 90's. If so, they are coming at a very majestic pace.
Man....I miss the old Goodyear blimps of the late 70's and early 80's. They used to come every summer to my state and I always had a camera on hand and ready to go. Those were the best times in my childhood! Now, ya only see mostly tiny little jets, a size of an ant, flying above you and ya gotta squint just to see them. A blimp flies low enough to take a gander at it with no problem 😊
@@chirpycrow2061 I hear ya man.