What Happened To Blimps?

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  • @KOKOBC
    @KOKOBC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3263

    The reason why we didn't see goodyear blimps in 2020 is because 2020 wasn't a goodyear

    • @mattyian1208
      @mattyian1208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      LOL true. 2020 sucked

    • @JerryC25
      @JerryC25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Amazing lol

    • @cerisem7727
      @cerisem7727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Bravo....👏 Bravo....👏 You win the internet fine sir. 🍸

    • @ligerdave
      @ligerdave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Great quote!

    • @davidlencha2042
      @davidlencha2042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Wish we could all go back to 2016

  • @pineapplepenguin9901
    @pineapplepenguin9901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    Seeing a Blimp is one of the simple joys of life.

    • @burgerking3392
      @burgerking3392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      its super awesome, i live near the goodyear blimp base in Carson, California and its amazing to see it floating around.

    • @thytoe
      @thytoe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Never seen any in Australia would love to tho

    • @eggisfun4217
      @eggisfun4217 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nah rigid airships are cooler

  • @ayrhow5626
    @ayrhow5626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +574

    _"It looks like a scene, from 1992"_
    The people in past were too _"imaginative"_ about the future

    • @zualapips1638
      @zualapips1638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      To be fair, those people literally saw the creation of the modern vehicle and hundreds of life changing inventions. The only life-changing thing many of us have seen is just the internet and smartphones. We are in an era where innovation has been stagnant for quite a few decades. If innovation had kept the same rate as back in the day, we could be on Mars right now.

    • @PAYDAYHEDGE
      @PAYDAYHEDGE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@zualapips1638 bro we have been to the mars and it's not livable, are you under a rock or what?

    • @toddaustin449
      @toddaustin449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      some aspects of what they predicted what the year would be like has came true

    • @lurker6918
      @lurker6918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@PAYDAYHEDGE He's probably talking about a manned mission or colony. And yes astronauts can survive on Mars with the right conditions and precautions.

    • @grandmasterjayd1184
      @grandmasterjayd1184 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      People have always been like that about the future.

  • @joshuajoe1419
    @joshuajoe1419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +668

    Imagine if the Hindenburg never exploded.

    • @kutter_ttl6786
      @kutter_ttl6786 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Airplanes would have still eclipsed them. There death was inevitable, It just would've been a slower (which the video actually covers).

    • @shashank2164
      @shashank2164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Nothing happens with just only one accident. It is a series of repeated events where Hindenburg was the last one when people realised enough is enough.

    • @shashank2164
      @shashank2164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@kutter_ttl6786 still they look cool. Could have been used for fun purposes.

    • @noobistheog
      @noobistheog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@shashank2164 it’s hard to use it for recreational purposes seeing. As they cost like 400 million bucks and it would be hard in a lot of other ways

    • @ernesthill2681
      @ernesthill2681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The LZ-129 Hindenberg was originally intended to operate with helium as the lifting medium, but congress changed it's mind about selling helium to the Germans when they saw publicity photos of it with swastikas plastered on its tailfins

  • @Ward413
    @Ward413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I used to think the only usable part of a blimp was the passenger compartment that hung below the ballon structure. When I finally saw pictures of dirigibles from the early 1900’s with massive interiors within the ballon itself my mind was blown. Would be so cool to see a modern dirigible.

    • @cookdislander4372
      @cookdislander4372 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Woww I never knew this. What should I google so I can seen?

    • @701983
      @701983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cookdislander4372 And since "within the ballon itself" might be misleading: The passenger compartments were inside the round hull of the airship, as well as the gas cells. The gas cells filled the major part of the volume inside the hull, but not all of it. There was room for passengers inside the hull, under the gas cells, near the bottom.

    • @701983
      @701983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cookdislander4372 TH-cam "Hindenburg Zeppelin Replica" from "Genius at work" might be better. Short, just music, but English descriptions.

  • @nergal3018
    @nergal3018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    There was a german company called Cargolifter who tried the exactly same thing in the early 2000s and sadly had to stop due to a lack of investor trust and the cost intensive process of building a Zeppelin. The concept is still pretty interesting imo

    • @benstoever
      @benstoever 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I was thinking about this, too. Their factory became the now largest indoor water park in the world. I hope it will go better this time. :-)

    • @RenoLaringo
      @RenoLaringo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The costs?!? Are you joking? It's orders of amplitudes cheaper than building any passenger jet.

    • @nergal3018
      @nergal3018 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RenoLaringo yeah, but just the needed infrastructure for building and maintaining these ships were just gigantic. New staff trained on new equipment, extremly rare parts that had to be build in small quanitites driving up price. Airbus or Boeing get subsidies and the infrastructure for passenger jets is already there.

    • @martinstock
      @martinstock 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The estimated costs were too low and the schedule too ambitious.
      They thought 150 million Euro would be sufficient to build the infrastructure (hangar etc.) and for the development and construction of the first prototype.
      But for this 300-400 million Euro would have been needed.
      There were a number of issues to address: a freight zeppelin has different requirements than a passenger zeppelin. They also aimed to overcome some known problems with the old huge airships. And also to reduce the personal needed to operate.
      They need for this longer than anticipated, but were generally on track.
      The patents registered by CargoLifter are now owned by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen. Known for their smaller Zeppelin NT models (semi-rigid airships). The modern Goodyear Blimps are Zeppelin NT models. The CargoLifter CL160 would have also been a semi-rigid airship.
      If they would have been able to built a working prototype, I'm sure it would have been an economical success.
      160 tons load with less restrictions on the dimension of the load would have found customers. Wind energy but also parts beyond the 5,50 m height restrictions for road transports.

  • @mimik6388
    @mimik6388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +304

    I clicked on this video because yesterday I saw a tiktok of a girl crying because she found out there’s only 25 blimps left in the world lol

  • @taeng0077
    @taeng0077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    i remember seeing goodyear blimps over my house like 10-15 years ago, this unlocked a memory

  • @RB-xq7qh
    @RB-xq7qh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    They’re in the alternate universe. The Fringe Division knows what I’m talking about.

    • @myriadleviathan
      @myriadleviathan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Get the Cortexiphan and go "Over there" without damaging physics?

    • @dean9566
      @dean9566 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fringe squad assemble

    • @captainsinclair7954
      @captainsinclair7954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      #FringeGang

    • @mclilzenthepoet2331
      @mclilzenthepoet2331 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eyyyyyyy squad

    • @j317
      @j317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      what do u mean explain

  • @MoPoppins
    @MoPoppins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    When I was a kid growing up in San Pedro, CA (early 80s), Goodyear blimp sightings were a daily occurrence. Same with those planes that write messages w/ smoke.

  • @JCE10NYC
    @JCE10NYC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    I miss seeing Goodyear blimps over Yankee Stadium as a kid

  • @khypickett9773
    @khypickett9773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I’ve actually ridden on the Goodyear Blimp before. I didn’t realize how blessed I was to be able to do that. It was an amazing experience.

    • @J972M
      @J972M 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How was it? I've always wanted to!

    • @abstract5249
      @abstract5249 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've seen videos of people flying in a blimp. Looks boring as hell.

  • @janetoconnor3636
    @janetoconnor3636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I live the Blimps I loved their distinctive motor sound when one of them flew over our house in 1978 it was so low I thought it was going to crash but it sailed. They were at first silver and they would fly over for the United Way every September. We even saw them at Lunken Airport up close in 1972. They always excited me to see them and to hear them. Thanks CNBC.

  • @drinkingpoolwater
    @drinkingpoolwater 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    i remember back in the 90s you’d always see them. always the good year blimp. also if you remember the movie the rocketeer the last part of the movie takes place on a blimpZ

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Great blimp scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, too.

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ Hello, Airplanes? It's Blimps...you win! Bye.

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @BigSexe We know. We're just using the term "blimp" synonymously for the sake of brevity.

    • @adamestes5227
      @adamestes5227 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @BigSexe the Graf Zeppelin, which was originally built and flown in the 1920s, and made the first passenger carrying flight around the world in 1929, had swastikas painted on its tail after the start of the Third Reich, as did the Hindenburg’s little known sister ship, the Graf Zeppelin II. The man in charge of the Zeppelin company at the time, Dr. Hugo Eckener, was no fan of the Nazis, even being considered as a candidate for the German presidency in 1932, the election that Hitler lost to General Paul von Hindenburg, but where Hindenburg later appointed Hitler as chancellor, after which the Zeppelin company was nationalized due to Eckener’s open criticism of the Nazis. After the Hindenburg airship disaster, the Germans built one last Zeppelin, the Graf Zeppelin II, but this one was inflated with helium, despite a shortage in Germany, and the USA’s embargo on supplying helium to Nazi Germany, which was why the Hindenburg wasn’t filled with helium. The Graf Zeppelin II never made a commercial flight with passengers, but it was sent to spy on the British Chain Home radar network in 1939. Afterwards, the two Graf Zeppelins were put into storage, and later scrapped for their metal to be used in the construction of military aircraft.

    • @Austin.D
      @Austin.D 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i also used to see them flying around my house a lot back then but haven't seen them since unfortunately

  • @jwattie144
    @jwattie144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    “The World is Yours”. Most iconic use of the blimp ever.

  • @johannesfranck1770
    @johannesfranck1770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I can see zeppelin’s almost every day here at Lake of Constance, they are used for tourists round trips, it’s really magical to watch.

    • @georgobergfell
      @georgobergfell 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not this year, tho, sadly...

    • @StevenBanks123
      @StevenBanks123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for calling it a Zepplin instead of a blip. TH-cam presenters cannot seem to understand the difference. A company called airship ventures used to make sightseeing trips around the San Francisco Bay area. I was lucky enough to get a 45 minute ride as a Christmas present (great discount at $250). Low and slow and HUGE windows.
      I wish I could post photos in these replies. It was the memory of a lifetime even at 45 minutes. You can search for Airship Venturesx Mountain View California.”

  • @bossfan49
    @bossfan49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    "Hello, Airplanes? It's Blimps...you win. Bye." - Sterling Archer.

    • @XRoyBatty6
      @XRoyBatty6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lana - be careful! Jesus the HELIUM!!

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@XRoyBatty6 Rigid airships combine the pampering of a cruise ship with the speed of--- Some other slightly faster ship?

    • @YIIMM
      @YIIMM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      _RIGID AIRSHIP!_

  • @Y2Kvids
    @Y2Kvids 3 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    They were a Blimp in the History of Aviation .

  • @ErinYams
    @ErinYams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    literally all i can think about while watching this: “at least he died doing what he loved, watching blimps”

    • @ObsoleteTutorials
      @ObsoleteTutorials 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      great minds think alike. would a great mind like to go out on a date some time?

    • @chirpycrow2061
      @chirpycrow2061 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm so glad that I still have my collection of inflatable airships hanging up that I've had for about 27 years now. All 16 of them. I still have a picture of the ship and crew uniforms from way back when I was part of a ground crew team back in the mid 90's.

    • @lucifertribal8636
      @lucifertribal8636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chirpycrow2061 that is very cool

  • @HarbindBrar
    @HarbindBrar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    No one:
    CNBC: Let's talk about Blimps

    • @AlaskafishStudios
      @AlaskafishStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They tryna distract you from the fact that their benefactors are losing billions of dollars because of GME

    • @seyned89
      @seyned89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Boycott Robinhood

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Normally I hate this comment format because it's so overused, but here it's actually applicable.

    • @JerryC25
      @JerryC25 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @Hgh38
      @Hgh38 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is better than talking about other topics

  • @edyann
    @edyann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Wow... TRUE! I haven't seen one in years!

    • @mutulushakur6
      @mutulushakur6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🤣🤣🤣 me either

    • @Henrique-sp9gx
      @Henrique-sp9gx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ive never seen one

    • @edyann
      @edyann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Henrique-sp9gx Aww...well because you're not old like me. 😅

    • @Henrique-sp9gx
      @Henrique-sp9gx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@edyann well im 20 😂

    • @edyann
      @edyann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Henrique-sp9gx A child. ☺

  • @blondbowler8776
    @blondbowler8776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My father built blimps at Goodyear in the 30s while attending Kent State. When war broke out he joined the Navy, they made him an officer, and gave him a blimp. Submarine patrol out of Texas, and Central and South America. He loved to fly, and died in a small plane crash in 1968 at age 46. Whenever we saw a blimp flying around in Northern California in the 50s, 60s, it was probably my dad flying the dang thing.

  • @LeandroFTW
    @LeandroFTW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I didn't even think about that. It's been a minute!

  • @marselse
    @marselse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    "So what's up with blimps?" that sounded cute asf

  • @siedpe13
    @siedpe13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Finally, we have the answers to the questions so many have wondered

  • @alphaapple1375
    @alphaapple1375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    For those who are familiar with the metric system:
    At 2:49: "She will carry 50 passengers, a crew of 40, and 13.6 metric tons of mail."
    At 2:55: "It was 245 meters long, making it the largest aircraft ever built."
    At 3:06: "The Hindenburg's 200,000 cubic meters of hydrogen gas had ignited."

  • @polskadiamond1678
    @polskadiamond1678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The last time I saw a blimp was around 2012, I was 11 years old, I was outside riding my bike when I saw the blimp flying by, I started jumping and waving my hands at it, the blimp came to a sudden stop and turned toward me, I believe someone on the blimp saw me waving at it. That was the best memory I've had with encountering blimps.

    • @rainbowraider4538
      @rainbowraider4538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow that’s crazy, I hope I will ever see one

    • @wig9210
      @wig9210 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      omgg we have the same experience except i was on my sidewalk and it was ab 2010!!

    • @polskadiamond1678
      @polskadiamond1678 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wig9210 That's awesome !! I need to see another one it's been too long.

  • @AlphaFoxDelta
    @AlphaFoxDelta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Airships are so romantic, and the new designs look so cool.

  • @tomservo5007
    @tomservo5007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have very found memories as a kid in the 80's, watching the Goodyear Blimp go over our house at night with it's electric sign on the side, and during the day, 'chasing' them with my friends on our bikes to watch them land (I lived near the Meadowlands and the airport used sometimes for landings)

  • @TheJeffrey666
    @TheJeffrey666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I worked for Van Warner Airship Group. I went from crewman to light sign operator to hanger manager. I'm proud of myself 👏👏

  • @exiownage
    @exiownage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If you ever visit Germany, at Lake Constance (Bodensee, not far away from Switzerland) there is a huge museum about Zeppelin (Blimps). Furthermore you can book a flight.

  • @crub4906
    @crub4906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Evolution of TH-cam Ads.
    2010: No ads.
    2015: Skip ads.
    2018: Skip ads after 5 seconds.
    2020: Video will play after ads.
    2030: Video may play
    2040: Video unavailable, watch ads.
    2050: TH-cam renames "AdTube".

  • @alexacdc1234
    @alexacdc1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There are only 13 operational blimps left in the world. Seeing one is a super rare event these days. I’ve only ever seen one once in my lifetime

  • @catsvansbags
    @catsvansbags 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    When i was a kid in california my mom was able to get me onto the goodyear blimp! I even got to pilot it (under supervision lol)

    • @leefithian3704
      @leefithian3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Owen to. The Coca Cola blimp , pretty cool

    • @catsvansbags
      @catsvansbags 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Zerevv Just because I flew a blimp you think I'm rich? 😅 you must be poor then

    • @catsvansbags
      @catsvansbags 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Zerevv i live in texas lmfao

    • @catsvansbags
      @catsvansbags 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Zerevv quit acting like you know me, you're making yourself look stupid.

    • @blondbowler8776
      @blondbowler8776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When/where was that? Might have been my father piloting...

  • @Beedo_Sookcool
    @Beedo_Sookcool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was fishing on Wingfoot Lake with my dad and one of his old retired work pals, and the blimp hangar door opened, and one of the Goodyear blimps came in to dock. Another time, I was driving up Route 43 with my mother, and all three active Goodyear blimps started circling the area for a big national tour. They'd swung by Wingfoot to pick up the third one for the convoy. I pulled into a car park, and we watched them for a while until they flew off for their next destination.

  • @michaelalexander2306
    @michaelalexander2306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I understand that the term 'blimp' came from a Royal Naval Air Service manual on airships in the First World War "...there are 2 types of airships: (a) rigid & (b) limp".

  • @AlefeLucas
    @AlefeLucas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I live in Brazil and blimps never were very common here. I saw it only once, it was a beer-can-shaped blimp, huge.

    • @lelekoJumboJet
      @lelekoJumboJet 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      in the late 90s and early 2005, Goodyear had blimps in Brazil, mainly in São Paulo.

  • @_tablearmy_
    @_tablearmy_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm not the only one who thinks the Airbender looks.........THICCCCCCC

  • @warmstrong5612
    @warmstrong5612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Homer Simpson: Hey there Blimpy-boy, flyin' through the sky so merrily.

    • @avinashtyagi2
      @avinashtyagi2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Starts sobbing*

    • @reconzero5699
      @reconzero5699 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@avinashtyagi2 it's okay, you got me bro

    • @avinashtyagi2
      @avinashtyagi2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@reconzero5699 😆

  • @michaeltaylor1603
    @michaeltaylor1603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was actually very lucky to see them many times. Spring, TX had a Good Year blimp base not far from Houston, TX. (My hometown) I'd see her in berth, or about to travel. The base is now the site of Home Depot + Super Target. LOL! MetLife Blimp was in Galveston, TX years ago along with Oscar Meyer WeinerMobile! I have both on vhs-c. I work by NRG Stadium. I showed the "young staff" the Good Year blimp. They were like 8 yr. old kids. LOL!

  • @daconnoisseurrex1752
    @daconnoisseurrex1752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I haven’t seen blimps in such a long time.

  • @peachesjeter5480
    @peachesjeter5480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I was a child i used to see the Goodyear blimp every once in a while in the sky and it was so exciting to me I haven’t seen one in in a long time and I’m in my 40s now.

  • @JerryC25
    @JerryC25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I literally saw the Goodyear blimp today lol. There’s a hanger near by in pompano here in Florida

    • @1985toyotacamry
      @1985toyotacamry 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same I actually live nearby from it so I see it almost every day

  • @coachal2137
    @coachal2137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So whimsical, so many flights of fancy, we're missing out definitely. People in the 1800s were always taking flights of fancy, always being whimsical. Now we cram ourselves into commercial flights and it's like - this isn't whimsical at ALL. This isn't a flight of fancy at ALL. And I think people are missing that feeling. More whimsical, more flights of fancy, that could be just what the doctor ordered.

  • @johnny112115
    @johnny112115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This is exactly what I was thinking after watching the latest episode of Attack on Titan.

    • @FLIP205
      @FLIP205 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂

    • @heeransaad2473
      @heeransaad2473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @imtiaznawaz6367
      @imtiaznawaz6367 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The same reason why I searched for blimps on YT.

    • @NickyYey
      @NickyYey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@imtiaznawaz6367 same

    • @icchigo3901
      @icchigo3901 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It made me think of the HunterxHunter episode where they flew, it really looked magical. And now I've watched a Pokemon episode with it too. I wish I could see one in real life

  • @robadams5799
    @robadams5799 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I haven't seen the Goodyear blimp since the 80's. I enjoyed the video, and the narrator had a pleasant voice.

  • @stars_over_me
    @stars_over_me 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    riding on one of those is on my bucket list

  • @ernesthill2681
    @ernesthill2681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you've deep pockets and about 6 years to wait, Zeppelin NT GMBH will build you one for about €8m. Hangar, fuel, helium, ground and aircrews, and maintenance, about another €2m per annum

  • @h12-p3j
    @h12-p3j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I've never seen an airship in real life. I'd like that to change.

    • @amazingabby25
      @amazingabby25 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really? I see them pretty often in SF, they have one you can even ride but it’s 850 dollars per person, and 10k for a private flight.

    • @devenhodge7200
      @devenhodge7200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You must be like 15..

    • @thytoe
      @thytoe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@devenhodge7200 wym there about 25 blimps in existence it's not that strange that someone might not have seen one. I don't think we have any in Australia

    • @RayRaySoShy
      @RayRaySoShy หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah alot of the younger generation doesn't even know what's a blimp. ​@@devenhodge7200

  • @milkman3797
    @milkman3797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Im in Akron where the huge Goodyear hangar is at and we see them pretty often, not as often nowadays but when I was little you’d hear this loud perpetual deep hum inside the house and you’d go out to see the Goodyear blimp pretty low to the ground flying by, they’re amazingly loud if you’ve ever been around them taking off

  • @MrFacemeltify
    @MrFacemeltify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Pandemic, economic collapse, and airships? It really is the 20s again

  • @prisila1242
    @prisila1242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The last time I saw a blimp was when I was playing at the park - now I’m 15, and haven’t ever seen one since :(

  • @kendrapratt2098
    @kendrapratt2098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There was a car wash when I was a kid that used a little blimp attached to the ground for signage

  • @matthewgallant3622
    @matthewgallant3622 ปีที่แล้ว

    I miss seeing blimps. Those and sky writers were some of the coolest things to see. As a boy I was always looking up to see airplanes and helicopters also.

  • @brentonf8178
    @brentonf8178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "When was the last time you saw a blimp."
    Literally never seen a blimp in my 24.5 years :/

    • @forrealforreal8723
      @forrealforreal8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really?

    • @brentonf8178
      @brentonf8178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@forrealforreal8723 Yup, Canada doesn’t really see much..

  • @fargoholmes5442
    @fargoholmes5442 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw a good year in Tucson Az as.of last December I truly appreciated the sight

  • @I_hu85ghjo
    @I_hu85ghjo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Now that i look back at my 18 years of existence on this planet. I think I've never seen a blimp irl.

    • @heatheradamson2255
      @heatheradamson2255 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm 19 and saw one when i was 7 but i really wish we could see more

  • @toddntasha
    @toddntasha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just saw a blimp the other night flying over downtown Los Angeles at night. It was beautiful and the bottom was lit up in blue.

  • @lkendrix7782
    @lkendrix7782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They blowed up! I’ve seen the Goodyear Blimp up close.

  • @chirpycrow2061
    @chirpycrow2061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Black Sunday GZ 19 Mayflower. My favorite

  • @l.s.3562
    @l.s.3562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I see the Goodyear blimp at least once monthly here in Akron

    • @daviddidomenico171
      @daviddidomenico171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same. Since I’m so close to Downtown the blimp flies directly over my house all the time when it’s circling around Downtown.

    • @lolacookie453
      @lolacookie453 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Goodyear is based in Akron

  • @enam9000
    @enam9000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really miss them 😢

  • @Jerry_Jerry1998
    @Jerry_Jerry1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The girl narrating this has a really nice voice, just sounds really relaxing to hear. She should narrate more TH-cam videos ( =

    • @spawnofsatan117
      @spawnofsatan117 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was gonna say the opposite. Very annoying voice and you can hear the dryness in her throat and lips when she talks.

    • @Jerry_Jerry1998
      @Jerry_Jerry1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      well thanks satan

  • @RayRaySoShy
    @RayRaySoShy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back in the 80"s and 90"s i use to see the Good year Blimp and there was another one called Fuji blump. Living here in the suburbs of Chicago we don't see them anymore ☹️☹️☹️

  • @interstellar3837
    @interstellar3837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    eren yeager: what?! why is everyone looking at me?

  • @AntonioNQ
    @AntonioNQ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm worked on one few year back in Elizabeth city, NC 600'X125'x65' it in storage somewhere.

  • @nitheeshr
    @nitheeshr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "At least he died doing what he loved, watching blimps”

  • @daviddidomenico171
    @daviddidomenico171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When was the last time anyone saw a blimp?
    As a life-long resident of Akron, Ohio I regularly see blimps at least once a week, every week, in the Spring and Summer. I live just outside of Downtown so they fly directly over my house all the time.

    • @1985toyotacamry
      @1985toyotacamry 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here in my city of Pompano Beach just about everyday due to the fact that I live near a blimp base. And it's Goodyear.

  • @estraume
    @estraume 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It might be possible to increase safety for hydrogen airship by building the outer layer with a similar structure as air mattresses but filled with Nitrogen gas at an overpressure of maybe 0.1 bar. The airship can then be filled with hydrogen that never will be in contact with air. For transport purposes, the airship can be remote controlled so no pilot need to take the risk of flying in a hydrogen filled airship.

  • @reubster529
    @reubster529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think giving more designs like the graf zeppelin that could hold dozens of passengers with dining halls, observation decks lounges, sleeping dormitories and bathrooms are all features zeppelins in the 30s had, now that would grab attention and it’s popularity would make it more mainstream and cheaper to ride on

  • @humongousphungus
    @humongousphungus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "There is no one who will not look up at a blimp in the sky. I don't think you could find a single person who wouldn't look up to see a blimp
    Blind person: .......

  • @1htmann
    @1htmann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thats very good ! The old inventions comeing back!!!

  • @ajjones4618
    @ajjones4618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    No stories about Gamestop posted this week lol CNBC is with the hedgefunds.

    • @waterfalls__
      @waterfalls__ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Search 'Gamestop CNBC'
      It's not all a conspiracy. Get it together, man!

  • @BGerbs66
    @BGerbs66 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up in Southern California. We had at least 3 blimps/zeppelins in our area at almost any given time

  • @jasonbassil9480
    @jasonbassil9480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You want blimps?
    There you go: Kirov Reporting.

  • @logantraxler7
    @logantraxler7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The intro: what’s up with blimps?
    Me: exactly...

  • @aymanshamil
    @aymanshamil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When your so early that you don't know what to comment

  • @GoodL81
    @GoodL81 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great put together video

  • @davec8921
    @davec8921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I usually enjoy these but this one has a very "talking to small children" feel

    • @lightningstrikestwice6302
      @lightningstrikestwice6302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That would be so the trumpanzees can understand it.

    • @inzabuhd8673
      @inzabuhd8673 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lightning strikes twice Man what the hell are you talking about. Give your head a shake

  • @omarimidgette3825
    @omarimidgette3825 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We need them back yes we do

  • @spectacularspaghetti1849
    @spectacularspaghetti1849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Me, a Scandinavian: wait, yall have seen a blimp before?

    • @georgobergfell
      @georgobergfell 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I see them flying almost every day here in Germany 😁

    • @amazingabby25
      @amazingabby25 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I see them all the time in San Francisco. There’s one you can fly in for about 800 dollars

  • @elijahward3920
    @elijahward3920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS. I love this page.

  • @doctorhorton
    @doctorhorton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    CNBC - “What Happened to Blimps?”
    They want to be referred to as Airships

  • @mechanicaldummy9324
    @mechanicaldummy9324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think we should bring back airships with the tech we have now safety should be of no issue. And airships are good for the environment, airship travel would fall right next to the cruise industry

  • @amethyst354
    @amethyst354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Person: blimps!
    Everybody: huh?
    Person: among us!
    Everybody: huh?
    Person: airship!
    Everyone: OOOHHHHHH YAAAAAAAAA AIIIIIIIIRRRRSHIP LETS GOOOOOOOOO

  • @laserbeamchaser
    @laserbeamchaser 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the goodyear blimp but thats about it. and its pretty cool to see if it in your city for a huge football game. it really hypes things up as you can see it anywhere in the city.

  • @shimeih2287
    @shimeih2287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How I wish I could see one in real life, let alone ride in it🙌🏽. Would give my good kidney for that.

  • @Gwenpool2369
    @Gwenpool2369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that would help fix the problem of transporting wind turbine blades because they are so larger.

  • @OwolabbyAzeez
    @OwolabbyAzeez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    One of the great wonders of the world at one point lol. Bruv (or bruvette) if you’re reading this. Friendly reminder for y’all to check your bank account on a daily basis. The more often you check the less likely you are to overspend. Pocket watch yourself 🤧💯🙌🏾.

  • @pedroserrano8494
    @pedroserrano8494 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally asking the real questions

  • @Justin-bb7oi
    @Justin-bb7oi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I live in ohio. So I've seen the Goodyear blimp about 2 years ago.

  • @sethrawbass
    @sethrawbass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imagine someone from the 1930’s comes here today and sees that we are still working on airships. Probably would be bummed.

  • @ryanr2203
    @ryanr2203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    *Stock market crashes from redditors*
    CNBC: What happend to Blimps?

  • @v.e.7236
    @v.e.7236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My only "reservation" concerning airship transport are weather variables. When the winds are blowing these blimps/airships will experience serious issue w/ penetration into those winds, while loaded - not a good combination to have a "lighter than air" ship in high winds. A gust of wind while unloading could spell disaster for the cargo and personnel unloading it. I'm dubious, at best.

  • @alvint2635
    @alvint2635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Last time I saw a Blimp was on Yuri’s Revenge

  • @pushing2throttles
    @pushing2throttles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I knew one of the pilots of the MetLife Snoopy blimp. Kinda makes me a cool name dropper. She was a really good pilot!

  • @beautifullydiamond8273
    @beautifullydiamond8273 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who's here before they hit one million views?

  • @701983
    @701983 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @6:40: "Hydrogen is more flammable than helium": That's a little bit misleading.
    Hydrogen is extremely flammable, helium is absolutely NOT flammable.

  • @miamitten1123
    @miamitten1123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who comes up with these topics!? Are they SuperChat request from subscribers? lol

  • @Harwell-gb5ho
    @Harwell-gb5ho 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just saw a Goodyear blimp today and now I get this recommended