What Happened To Blimps?

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024

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  • @KOKOBC
    @KOKOBC 3 года назад +3253

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

    • @mattyian1208
      @mattyian1208 3 года назад +33

      LOL true. 2020 sucked

    • @JerryC25
      @JerryC25 3 года назад +8

      Amazing lol

    • @cerisem7727
      @cerisem7727 3 года назад +27

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

    • @ligerdave
      @ligerdave 3 года назад +6

      Great quote!

    • @davidlencha2042
      @davidlencha2042 3 года назад +7

      Wish we could all go back to 2016

  • @daconnoisseurrex1752
    @daconnoisseurrex1752 3 года назад +6

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

  • @sve5543
    @sve5543 3 года назад +2

    The last time I saw a blimp
    Was in a cartoon called Phinese and Ferb 😂😂

  • @zulefunel2172
    @zulefunel2172 3 года назад

    BLIMP:*Exist*
    Flying Broom Stick in GTA 5:Is that a Target Practice

  • @Errr717
    @Errr717 3 года назад

    I saw one today circling around the PGA golf tournament in Torrey Pines San Diego.

  • @Camman010
    @Camman010 3 года назад

    The last time I saw one was in 2018 just before the local fireworks show.

  • @Overneed-Belkan-Witch
    @Overneed-Belkan-Witch 3 года назад

    Yeah We don't see Blimp anymore
    But can you cruising on Blimp across the city without Dying and also on Sprunk Stop

  • @centex7409
    @centex7409 3 года назад

    There's this crazy thing called wind....

    • @brynphillips9957
      @brynphillips9957 3 года назад

      They managed to deal with that over 70 years ago with the early airships so with modern technology I think they could come up with a few ways of handling that. The issue with Airships was cost vs performance and Heavier than Air Aircraft won out in that regard. It was financial viability, not weather concerns.

  • @pineapplepenguin9901
    @pineapplepenguin9901 3 года назад +363

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

    • @burgerking3392
      @burgerking3392 2 года назад +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 года назад +2

      Never seen any in Australia would love to tho

    • @eggisfun4217
      @eggisfun4217 Год назад +1

      nah rigid airships are cooler

  • @joshuajoe1419
    @joshuajoe1419 3 года назад +671

    Imagine if the Hindenburg never exploded.

    • @kutter_ttl6786
      @kutter_ttl6786 3 года назад +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 года назад +42

      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 года назад +16

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

    • @noobistheog
      @noobistheog 3 года назад +11

      @@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 года назад +17

      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

  • @ayrhow5626
    @ayrhow5626 3 года назад +571

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

    • @zualapips1638
      @zualapips1638 3 года назад +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 года назад +23

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

    • @toddaustin449
      @toddaustin449 3 года назад +1

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

    • @lurker6918
      @lurker6918 3 года назад +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 года назад

      People have always been like that about the future.

  • @mimik6388
    @mimik6388 3 года назад +301

    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

  • @RB-xq7qh
    @RB-xq7qh 3 года назад +326

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

  • @JCE10NYC
    @JCE10NYC 3 года назад +113

    I miss seeing Goodyear blimps over Yankee Stadium as a kid

  • @drinkingpoolwater
    @drinkingpoolwater 3 года назад +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 года назад +6

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

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 года назад +2

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

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 года назад

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

    • @adamestes5227
      @adamestes5227 3 года назад

      @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 года назад

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

  • @Ward413
    @Ward413 3 года назад +83

    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 Год назад +1

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

    • @701983
      @701983 10 месяцев назад +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 10 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @nergal3018
    @nergal3018 3 года назад +91

    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 года назад

      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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @nergal3018
      @nergal3018 9 месяцев назад

      @@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 6 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @bossfan49
    @bossfan49 3 года назад +123

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

    • @XRoyBatty6
      @XRoyBatty6 3 года назад +5

      Lana - be careful! Jesus the HELIUM!!

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 года назад +5

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

    • @YIIMM
      @YIIMM 3 года назад +5

      _RIGID AIRSHIP!_

  • @Y2Kvids
    @Y2Kvids 3 года назад +234

    They were a Blimp in the History of Aviation .

  • @jwattie144
    @jwattie144 3 года назад +116

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

  • @ErinYams
    @ErinYams 3 года назад +82

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

    • @ObsoleteTutorials
      @ObsoleteTutorials 3 года назад

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

    • @chirpycrow2061
      @chirpycrow2061 3 года назад

      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 года назад +1

      @@chirpycrow2061 that is very cool

  • @edyann
    @edyann 3 года назад +67

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

    • @mutulushakur6
      @mutulushakur6 3 года назад +3

      🤣🤣🤣🤣 me either

    • @Henrique-sp9gx
      @Henrique-sp9gx 3 года назад +7

      Ive never seen one

    • @edyann
      @edyann 3 года назад +2

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

    • @Henrique-sp9gx
      @Henrique-sp9gx 3 года назад +2

      @@edyann well im 20 😂

    • @edyann
      @edyann 3 года назад +5

      @@Henrique-sp9gx A child. ☺

  • @MoPoppins
    @MoPoppins 3 года назад +38

    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.

  • @johannesfranck1770
    @johannesfranck1770 3 года назад +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 года назад

      Not this year, tho, sadly...

    • @StevenBanks123
      @StevenBanks123 3 года назад +2

      Thanks for calling it a Zepplin instead of a blip. RUclips 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.”

  • @HarbindBrar
    @HarbindBrar 3 года назад +123

    No one:
    CNBC: Let's talk about Blimps

    • @AlaskafishStudios
      @AlaskafishStudios 3 года назад +9

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

    • @seyned89
      @seyned89 3 года назад +3

      Boycott Robinhood

    • @bossfan49
      @bossfan49 3 года назад +5

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

    • @JerryC25
      @JerryC25 3 года назад

      Lol

    • @Hgh38
      @Hgh38 3 года назад

      It is better than talking about other topics

  • @taeng0077
    @taeng0077 3 года назад +47

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

  • @marselse
    @marselse 3 года назад +96

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

  • @ajjones4618
    @ajjones4618 3 года назад +9

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

    • @waterfalls__
      @waterfalls__ 3 года назад +2

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

  • @LeandroFTW
    @LeandroFTW 3 года назад +24

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

  • @h12-p3j
    @h12-p3j 3 года назад +14

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

    • @amazingabby25
      @amazingabby25 3 года назад

      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 года назад +1

      You must be like 15..

    • @thytoe
      @thytoe 2 года назад

      @@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 2 дня назад

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

  • @khypickett9773
    @khypickett9773 3 года назад +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 года назад +1

      How was it? I've always wanted to!

    • @abstract5249
      @abstract5249 Год назад

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

  • @janetoconnor3636
    @janetoconnor3636 3 года назад +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.

  • @exiownage
    @exiownage 3 года назад +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.

  • @johnny112115
    @johnny112115 3 года назад +21

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

    • @FLIP205
      @FLIP205 3 года назад

      😂😂😂

    • @heeransaad2473
      @heeransaad2473 3 года назад

      Same

    • @imtiaznawaz6367
      @imtiaznawaz6367 3 года назад

      The same reason why I searched for blimps on YT.

    • @NickyYey
      @NickyYey 3 года назад +1

      @@imtiaznawaz6367 same

    • @icchigo3901
      @icchigo3901 3 года назад

      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

  • @MrFacemeltify
    @MrFacemeltify 3 года назад +12

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

  • @warmstrong5612
    @warmstrong5612 3 года назад +44

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

  • @blondbowler8776
    @blondbowler8776 3 года назад +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.

  • @interstellar3837
    @interstellar3837 3 года назад +7

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

  • @alphaapple1375
    @alphaapple1375 3 года назад +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."

  • @aldob6379
    @aldob6379 3 года назад +4

    They were taken away by giants and used as condoms

    • @goattier7728
      @goattier7728 3 года назад +1

      This is original and good.Got to give a like

    • @brynphillips9957
      @brynphillips9957 3 года назад

      @@goattier7728 I thought the exact same thing :P

  • @701983
    @701983 10 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @catsvansbags
    @catsvansbags 3 года назад +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 года назад +3

      Owen to. The Coca Cola blimp , pretty cool

    • @catsvansbags
      @catsvansbags 3 года назад +1

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

    • @catsvansbags
      @catsvansbags 3 года назад

      @Zerevv i live in texas lmfao

    • @catsvansbags
      @catsvansbags 3 года назад +1

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

    • @blondbowler8776
      @blondbowler8776 3 года назад +1

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

  • @miamitten1123
    @miamitten1123 3 года назад +10

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

  • @polskadiamond1678
    @polskadiamond1678 3 года назад +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 года назад +2

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

    • @wig9210
      @wig9210 Год назад +1

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

    • @polskadiamond1678
      @polskadiamond1678 Год назад

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

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  • @RayRaySoShy
    @RayRaySoShy 2 дня назад +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 ☹️☹️☹️

  • @alexacdc1234
    @alexacdc1234 2 года назад +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

  • @_tablearmy_
    @_tablearmy_ 3 года назад +15

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

  • @AlefeLucas
    @AlefeLucas 3 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @brentonf8178
    @brentonf8178 3 года назад +6

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

  • @nitheeshr
    @nitheeshr 3 года назад +17

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

  • @I_hu85ghjo
    @I_hu85ghjo 3 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @davec8921
    @davec8921 3 года назад +10

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

    • @lightningstrikestwice6302
      @lightningstrikestwice6302 3 года назад +1

      That would be so the trumpanzees can understand it.

    • @inzabuhd8673
      @inzabuhd8673 3 года назад

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

  • @jasonbassil9480
    @jasonbassil9480 3 года назад +4

    You want blimps?
    There you go: Kirov Reporting.

  • @crub4906
    @crub4906 3 года назад +1

    Evolution of RUclips 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: RUclips renames "AdTube".

  • @AlphaFoxDelta
    @AlphaFoxDelta 3 года назад +5

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

  • @doctorhorton
    @doctorhorton 3 года назад +3

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

  • @siedpe13
    @siedpe13 3 года назад +5

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

  • @ernesthill2681
    @ernesthill2681 3 года назад +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

  • @OwolabbyAzeez
    @OwolabbyAzeez 3 года назад +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 🤧💯🙌🏾.

  • @coachal2137
    @coachal2137 2 года назад +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.

  • @ryanr2203
    @ryanr2203 3 года назад +6

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

  • @estraume
    @estraume 3 года назад +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.

  • @Spacekriek
    @Spacekriek 3 года назад +1

    2:14 .. If commercial airship travel means flying passengers around then 1928 would be wrong. The German DELAG company started flying passengers as early as 1909.

  • @emeraldkaysgarden
    @emeraldkaysgarden 3 года назад +1

    I guess since you guys don't have Trump to talk about you go to news fluff....how's Biden doing?!😂😂😂

  • @l.s.3562
    @l.s.3562 3 года назад +5

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

    • @daviddidomenico171
      @daviddidomenico171 3 года назад

      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 года назад

      Goodyear is based in Akron

  • @brigidsingleton1596
    @brigidsingleton1596 Год назад +1

    Are there still advertising (or other) blimps / "airships" in the UK ? I saw one fly over Battle (in East Suaaex() once, in around 1984/5, when I was working in an Airedales Showing kennels .. it was weird as the dogs had been barking, then suddenly they all went very quiet.
    I saw the shadow pass over the dogs and ground, so looked up, in time to see the blimp pass silently overhead. It cleared the treeline, not ultra high, but high enough that I could l not hear it's engines.
    It seemed quite "creepy" being so big, yet so quiet !!v😮😊

  • @zhouxinbo8974
    @zhouxinbo8974 3 года назад +6

    Why do all the white male announcers from the mid 1900’s all sound the same 😂

    • @coreytaylor447
      @coreytaylor447 3 года назад +2

      mainly because the audio recording devices where really low quality and the american accent was a lot more thicker and distinct than what it is today

  • @brenta.friedman953
    @brenta.friedman953 3 года назад +1

    @cnbc it's USS MACON, not macRon....of the two US Navy aircraft carrier blimps made.

  • @JerryC25
    @JerryC25 3 года назад +4

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

    • @1985toyotacamry
      @1985toyotacamry 3 года назад

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

  • @michaelalexander2306
    @michaelalexander2306 3 года назад +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".

  • @shimeih2287
    @shimeih2287 3 года назад +4

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

  • @humongousphungus
    @humongousphungus 3 года назад +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: .......

  • @thefinalhour-zerohour
    @thefinalhour-zerohour Год назад +1

    I see one in 2016. In 2023 i saw one on the sky, in Germany, Greece, and Romanian.. Is these countries last that have blimps in Europe?

  • @aymanshamil
    @aymanshamil 3 года назад +21

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

  • @JackMacLupus
    @JackMacLupus 3 года назад +1

    Well in the age of a digital world, where nearly everyone has a phone or similar device to access the internet whenever he/she wants there is no need for a flying advertising billboard anymore. So the companies that used them made some calculations about what to do without the advertising contract that brings the main money. So renting them for passengers or sightseeing? Well that could work, but a ticket whould be pretty expensive so that not much people whould buy them. So the blimps disappeared since they where too expensive to maintain.
    At least that's what i think what probably happened.
    I mean, just look what happened to the Cargolifter AG in Germany. They tried to build a cargo blimp for a weight till 150 tons and the costs literally bursted the project. (More information about Cargolifter: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter )
    Today the hangar that was build for those cargo blimps holds the largest indoor water park in the world named "Tropical Islands" (And more details about Tropical Islands: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort )

  • @stars_over_me
    @stars_over_me 3 года назад +5

    riding on one of those is on my bucket list

  • @beback_
    @beback_ 3 года назад +1

    The French whale blimps were so cute.

    • @PeppermintLife5
      @PeppermintLife5 3 года назад

      They really are. I love the little fins they have.

  • @lkendrix7782
    @lkendrix7782 3 года назад +6

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

  • @sethrawbass
    @sethrawbass 3 года назад +2

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

  • @tomservo5007
    @tomservo5007 3 года назад +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)

  • @mechanicaldummy9324
    @mechanicaldummy9324 3 года назад +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

  • @nathanwilliams4005
    @nathanwilliams4005 3 года назад +14

    "What happened to blimps?" Wow, that sounds like fat shaming to me...

    • @edwardk6764
      @edwardk6764 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, especially when we just got an orange painted blimp out of the White House.

    • @nathanwilliams4005
      @nathanwilliams4005 3 года назад +1

      @@edwardk6764 And voted in a geriatric, demented puppet who is barely coherent most of the time, has no backbone and is turning America into some sort of neo-socialistic country that will answer to China, allow illegal immigrants in by the millions, put hundreds of thousands out of jobs, and completely rewrite or revise history rather than be a true leader for the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Yeahhhhhhh...

    • @edwardk6764
      @edwardk6764 3 года назад

      @@nathanwilliams4005 whatever man, he was just not as bad as the other guy...and all that stuff already happened under the last administration.
      Plus I was just talking about blimps.

    • @nathanwilliams4005
      @nathanwilliams4005 3 года назад

      @@edwardk6764 Biden is garbage. 4 years of "unity" is about to ensue. 🙄 I made an attempt at humor and some how a liberal took that as grounds for making a political statement for whatever reason. Orange man bad! Anyway, take care fella. ✌

    • @mikethemagnificent6631
      @mikethemagnificent6631 3 года назад +1

      @@nathanwilliams4005 You should know by now lefties have no sense of humor,
      All they know is derision and hate. They can dish it out but can't take it.

  • @TONEakaSHOW
    @TONEakaSHOW 3 года назад +1

    Didn't blimps use to fly over every Monday football game?!

  • @Justin-bb7oi
    @Justin-bb7oi 3 года назад +3

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

  • @aaronguardado
    @aaronguardado 3 года назад +2

    I’m 24 years old and I’ve never seen a blimp

    • @w.n.y_n.j.2584
      @w.n.y_n.j.2584 3 года назад +1

      Remember seeing them all the time in summers 80s and 90s... northeast

  • @beautifullydiamond8273
    @beautifullydiamond8273 3 года назад +10

    Who's here before they hit one million views?

  • @ciscovolkswagen8853
    @ciscovolkswagen8853 3 года назад +1

    Bruh theres only 25 blimps left in the world?!
    Only half of them are even viable!

  • @Beedo_Sookcool
    @Beedo_Sookcool 3 года назад +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.

  • @rmjstrikecat
    @rmjstrikecat 2 года назад +2

    Daveeeeyyy how ya doin?

  • @kendrapratt2098
    @kendrapratt2098 3 года назад +3

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

  • @TheJeffrey666
    @TheJeffrey666 3 года назад +2

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

  • @spectacularspaghetti1849
    @spectacularspaghetti1849 3 года назад +3

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

    • @georgobergfell
      @georgobergfell 3 года назад

      I see them flying almost every day here in Germany 😁

    • @amazingabby25
      @amazingabby25 3 года назад

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

  • @chirpycrow2061
    @chirpycrow2061 3 года назад +1

    Black Sunday GZ 19 Mayflower. My favorite

  • @AutisticThinker
    @AutisticThinker 3 года назад +3

    Helium is expensive!

    • @brynphillips9957
      @brynphillips9957 3 года назад

      It would be funny if they managed to crack Fusion power as then they would have to find something to do with all the Helium byproduct.

  • @yiskadj7986
    @yiskadj7986 3 года назад +1

    They fly around all the time in austria but i think it's because i live near the place the inventor of the blimp built it.

  • @SuperPlayz
    @SuperPlayz 3 года назад +3

    I can imagine farmers shooting blimps

  • @Don_Melon
    @Don_Melon 3 года назад +2

    I wonder where Flying Whales took inspiration for their name... maybe a well known French death metal band that has a song with the same name...

  • @alvint2635
    @alvint2635 3 года назад +3

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

  • @anshulsharma9424
    @anshulsharma9424 3 года назад +1

    Once fusion problem is solved helium would be an aboundand meterial