That is VERY true ..... Somewhere amongst the comments here you can find my account watching the final flight of Airlander 10 Impressive as anything - but I would NOT want to have been on board that day (And I LIKE aerobatics)
I had a chnce to fly on Goodyear N4A Columbia in Goodyear AZ not once but twice one day in 1977. My dad recieved a couple tickets from a local tire distributer and we went up for a ride, the roar of the engines and steep takeoff angle were thrilling! The second ride came to us as we were about to depart the airfield and the groundcrew chief asked if we'd like to go up again as they just had a cancellation if the entire noontime passenger load, so this time my mom and sister were also able to come up for what turned out to be an hour long flight over Phoenix. I still remember our pilots name, Joel Chamberlain.
Air ships ARE challenging to fly, but the greater challenge is understanding and respecting operational concerns, particularly in regards to weather. The safety record of Hugo Eckner and the Goodyear companies since World War II illustrates this.
Another great episode. I lived next to the hangar for one of those blimps. In this day of fast moving cars, seeing that slow moving behemoth is still special.
Born and raised in Akron. I’ve been in that hanger many times. Hard to express how massive it really is. Grew up with the various blimps flying overhead all the time. Surprisingly I’ve never heard of this mishap. Thank you History Guy. BTW my uncle worked for Goodyear , upon his retirement he managed to wrangle a ride in one of the blimps.
I lived in Goodyear,AZ for a year when i was stationed at Luke AFB. One of the blimps was based there at the old Naval installation. It was always fun when they flew over low on return or departure. They would have a light display going which was cool to watch, since it totally interfered with the TV signal while going overhead.
My dad crashed the Columbia circa 1970. He was coming into the Carson base low at night and hit some power lines. No fatalities, and although he kept his pilot's license, and still flew occasionally, he was 'transferred' to public relations after that, which turned out well for him. he eventually retired as director of global airships for goodyear. I didn't know about this previous crash. thank you. oh, also, I saw you commenting in an Unxplained episode (secrets of the founding fathers) on hulu. very cool.
Great story! Your father was flying the Columbia tail number N3A, launched in 1968 and still flying, although the GZ-20 class are being slowly retired. N3A had a bizarre accident in 1990 when an R/C pilot buzzed and then rammed the blimp with his radio-controlled plane, punching a hole in the blimp and forcing an emergency landing.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel indeed. in college, I worked at the Suffield, oh hangar as a field wage, and 3rd shift pressure watch for the GZ-22 Spirit of Akron. I didn't realize the historical significance of the hangar at the time. at some point, we also had the 'ghost ship' GZ-20 displayed there for visitors. clarification: we had the gondola of the ghost ship, not the entire blimp.
Two of my friends and I were travelling to Pompano Beach from Daytona Beach. As we drove, we got bored and then above the trees in the distance straight in front of us was the US Navy blimp. We commented on it talked a while and looked back to see it GONE! We talked about that looked back and THERE it was! This happened two more times as we talked stealth blimps/new tech, only to come to a bend in the road and see it had been going up and down on a tether. We didn't talk the rest of the way.
North of Fort Lauderdale. FL is the east coast HQ fir the Goodyear blimp. It's not far from where I live/ work. I've seen it on the ground; only then do you really appreciate how honkingly big it is
New Goodyear Blimps - now made by the Zepplin Corp... Had a friend live in Rockmart, Ga, on Wingfoot Drive... Used to make the fabric for airships there...
I kind of look at it as a sad day frankly. Never a big British Invasion fan. And it killed off a lot of American music of the time. Anything that was not Beach Boys or Motown, basically disappeared.😢
Very Interesting. I grew up in Houston, Texas and often watched the Goodyear Blimp fly by and land at the Goodyear Blimp Base in Spring, Texas, about three miles from where I now live. There is a small part of the original foundation left enclosed by a rusty fence next to a Lowe's Home Improvement store.
I have many childhood memories of the Goodyear blimp flying overhead. I live in northern California. When the blimp flew up the coast on its way to football games in Portland or Seattle, they often flew over our ciy of Eureka. Why? Our airport had a relic from world war 2. A blimp tie-down pole! The only one between their starting point and Portland. When the winds got to strong, they tied down here to wait them out. From a young age i recognized the faint sound of their motor and knew to look up.
The failure of airships to find commercial success is tragic, I had the good fortune to fly in one produced by Airship Industries in The late 80’s and the sensation was amazing.
I had a chance to ride in one in Key West in the late 90’s. Word was passed “free rides for active duty.” After watching it bounce violently while tethered to the ground because of high winds I passed. It lifted shortly and the wind tipped it nose down almost crashing into trees before it stabilized, lifted and headed north to the mainland as a storm was coming in from the south.
I worked directly across from the bank building in Chicago which was given the nickname of "The Rookery" because of the huge pigeon population that sheltered up there as the building went unrepaired for many years.
I remember driving into Houston and seeing one of the blimps coming in to land in the airpark they had up in Spring. It was amazing. They closed that hangar and moved the blimp base somewhere else and I miss seeing it. Genesis (the band) rehearsed for the 1992 We Can't Dance tour in the Goodyear blimp hanger in Houston. It was one of only a few spaces that was large enough to accommodate the new stage set-up. There is a video here on You Tube called History Behind the Goodyear Blimp--Dave Ward's Houston that has the story of the blimp here and the end of the time.
Goodyear used to have (don't know if it's still there) a blimp hangar just west of the Goodyear plant west of Beaumont Texas on Interstate 10. I had seen the blimp there many times as I traveled thru.
So sad to hear about the bank tellers, I hope the development of the air yachts continue to improve under safer conditions. Research and development takes time should not be rushed. Thanks History Guy, this was a good one!
In the 70s, N4A, also dubbed Columbia was based near the San Diego & Harbor Freeways, in L.A. It was a common sight in those days, as it flew all over the L.A. Basin.
During the 1984 Olympics both the Columbia and the Fuji blimp were based there for aerial TV coverage of the games. One day I was driving past after the Fuji was airborne and Columbia was just lifting off. The two pilots then proceeded to "dogfight", circling around one another and bobbing up and down like two whales trying to dance. It went on for about 15 minutes before they went off about their business, and was a sight I will never forget.😁😎
I remember the Goodyear blimp being almost a nightly phenomenon over southern California in the mid seventies. A couple of times as it flew over our house in Garden Grove my dad took out his brightest flashlight and waved the beam at the airship. We were all delighted when we were spotlighted back by the blimp crew!
From Blimps to Microchips: Moffett Field ruclips.net/video/NDaAnKcwndI/видео.html Forgotten Airship: USS Macon ruclips.net/video/U2h1NNpxcFM/видео.html
Since I was a child, I've been fascinated by airplanes, helicopters, and airships. Saw blimps at airshows, but always wished I could see a huge zeppelin fly. Worked for an Ohio concern for awhile near Akron, and drove by the airship hanger - the photos I saw of it don't do it justice. It is literally startlingly huge. Sadly, for all their potential positives, airships just aren't practical/safe because of weather.
I used to work for Boeing / McDonnell Douglas at Long Beach airport and I remember a Goodyear blimp being based there. One day as we were looking out the window I saw that blimp doing Acrobatic maneuvers over the long beach airport. I was highly amazed.
I live only a handful of miles from Cardington Hangers where Airship Industries built the innovative but under some conditions hard to control airship Airlander 10 dubbed (because of its appearance) 'the flying bottom'. [Hugely impressive to see such a massive thing a mile away when you and it are flying at about 2,000 feet or so too] My wife and I witnessed its penultimate flight in 2017 (or maybe 2016) Heard its very distinctive engines, went in the garden to watch it go over looking serene circa 1,000 feet & climbing It returned maybe 20 minutes later much higher but 'porpoising'. My wife asked 'isn't that a bit vigorous for testing attitude control'? Afetr watching the way the oscillations seemed to get bigger with each 'wave' I replied that the engineers have a term specifically for the situation which I couldn't recall but it applies when atempts to control amplify the problem. [Vehicle swerves 5 feet right, driver corrects, that causes it to swerve 6 feet left, driver corrects & now it swerves 7 feet right etc] Only in the Airlander's case it was in the vertical plane and pitching at LEAST 30 degrees above and below its horizontal axis. Sadly, despite valiant efforts by its pilots, when it came in to Cardington to secure to its mooring tower the nose smacked into the airfield. Hanger repairs took months. Finished and place back outside for further tests a storm blew hard enough to push airship AND its seveal mooring points half a mile or so across the airfield and into the tall boundary fence. It was very badly damaged - pretty much torn into large strips - and never rebuilt. Its rumoured work will be restarting on a successor.
@@straybullitt Kind of ballpark conceptually there ..... but not quite PIO is more 'hamfisted' over compensation, typically during landing. The term I'm scrabbling to recall is an engineering one where cause is a system flaw *Is there an Engineer in the House* ?
Got to sit in a tethered Goodyear blimp at an MA Air Force station back in the 80's. The attending mechanic briefed that we needed to be prepared to 'bail out' of the control car at a moments warning - which we had to do & did! Turns out that the blimp was sensitive to tail winds while tethered and had a habit of standing on its nose; which fortunately, it did not do on this occasion!
Every spring here in central CT we see the blimps flying over the Traveler's Open in Cromwell. Still wish they could be used for heavy cargo lifting. btw, noticed the saber behind you: did you ever research the Patton Saber, and how those were turned into Machetes during south pacific campaign?
There is something to be said about the power of an airship in the mind of people just seeing them. Years ago there was a golf course by my house and it was hosting the PGA senior men’s tour and the MetLife Blimp was floating over my neighborhood and it was the most surreal experience we there ever felt.
@@garywagner2466 Trying for a double, with both 'Patton' and 'Inglourious Basterds' and flubbed on the latter (faulty memory). My bad, trying to be too clever by half. Pardon. Didn't want to go with just Lance.
I live near the Davenport Airport and have seen the Met Life blimp as it was coverage for the PGA tour stop called the John Deere classic. Snoopy looks good in a large format!😅
We crashed the hell out of blimps. There's a reason why we stopped using them. There are some modern concepts that I think are worth exploring, but history is littered with blimp wrecks.
My mom visited her Uncle Bill in Akron when they were building the Akron and Macon. He fashioned a bracelet for her from a piece of aluminum. He worked for Goodyear his entire life.
The mountain near Piedmont, Alabama, is Cheaha Mountain. Also known as Mount Cheaha, it is part of the Talladega Mountains, a final southern segment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, unlike other elevations of the Appalachians in north Alabama, which are part of the Cumberland Plateau. It is the highest natural point in the state with an elevation of 2,413 ft. It is definitely not part of the Smokey Mountains. I know this for certain as I grew up about 20 miles from Piedmont and Mount Cheaha.
Here's a little bit of forgotten history. The past tense of speed was sped. Just like the past tense of plead was pled. At least the past tense of die is not yet dead.
Bravo! I mourn our lost irregular winderful mishmash of a language. Recentky heard a barrator talking about uranium being shielded within "leed". I don't know if it was written correctly or not. Hard the opposite pronunciation error of lead on a different channel. Also heard a calliope error in the pronunciation of "calliope"! 😂 He pronounced it "cal i ope" accent on the cal. For my bit, I insist upon writing everything out as I was taught in the Way Back. This prompts my device to attempt to shame me by asking if I want to allow or deny my own sending of "numerous texts". I tell it to allow them every time! Resistance is not futile! It's fun. 😊
Good Friday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Have a good weekend. Class is back in session...Pay attention, there may be a pop quiz afterwards. Lol
So , what's the difference between a blimp and a semi-rigid zeppelin? I remember when I was a young teenager, riding my motorcycle down a dirt road. A large shadow suddenly engulfed me, I looked up and the Goodyear Blimp was above me at very low altitude! Snuck up on me from behind and scared the crap out of me. I watched it fighting a head wind, it was going slow... in every direction.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thank you so much. Would love if someday you could do an episode on Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie. I am from Erie, PA. and we have a sailing replica of the Brigg Niagara. I know the story but you could really bring it to life. Thanks for all you do.
I remember watching a news clip of that a long time ago. Actually a couple times... And the reporter was crying. It was just heartbreaking... Unless I'm confusing that with the Hindenburg fire.... Both are tragic regardless.
What is your understanding concerning the origin of the name "Blimp"? It is my preferred theory that the moniker "Blimp" is derived from the military designation "Type(s)" A-Ridged and B-Limp to denote the A type ridged structure comprising the Zeppelin's of the day as opposed to the gas-bag types, known as the B-Limp. Your thoughts???
I live in Queens NY and if the accident would happen today it could had land in the Flushing Meadows Park the sight of the 1963 World Fair and the home of the NY Mets
Dirigible simply means a lighter-than-air ship that is steerable. All blimps are dirigibles, although not all dirigibles are blimps. Columbia was nonrigid, a true blimp.
Being raised in Akron, working in college for Goodyear and still watching blimps fly, a local proverb: Baloons with motors are hard to fly.
That is VERY true .....
Somewhere amongst the comments here you can find my account watching the final flight of Airlander 10
Impressive as anything - but I would NOT want to have been on board that day
(And I LIKE aerobatics)
I had a chnce to fly on Goodyear N4A Columbia in Goodyear AZ not once but twice one day in 1977. My dad recieved a couple tickets from a local tire distributer and we went up for a ride, the roar of the engines and steep takeoff angle were thrilling! The second ride came to us as we were about to depart the airfield and the groundcrew chief asked if we'd like to go up again as they just had a cancellation if the entire noontime passenger load, so this time my mom and sister were also able to come up for what turned out to be an hour long flight over Phoenix. I still remember our pilots name, Joel Chamberlain.
I flew in the Good Year Blimp above 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. It was something I won't soon forget!
I rode in 2002 over akron, got to touch & go akron fulton. So cool.
Air ships ARE challenging to fly, but the greater challenge is understanding and respecting operational concerns, particularly in regards to weather. The safety record of Hugo Eckner and the Goodyear companies since World War II illustrates this.
Another great episode. I lived next to the hangar for one of those blimps. In this day of fast moving cars, seeing that slow moving behemoth is still special.
I sure wouldn't like to be one of the ground crew trying to catch that thing with the spinning props.
Born and raised in Akron. I’ve been in that hanger many times. Hard to express how massive it really is. Grew up with the various blimps flying overhead all the time. Surprisingly I’ve never heard of this mishap. Thank you History Guy. BTW my uncle worked for Goodyear , upon his retirement he managed to wrangle a ride in one of the blimps.
Good to hear from so many Ohio newspaper sources!
I lived in Goodyear,AZ for a year when i was stationed at Luke AFB. One of the blimps was based there at the old Naval installation. It was always fun when they flew over low on return or departure. They would have a light display going which was cool to watch, since it totally interfered with the TV signal while going overhead.
My dad crashed the Columbia circa 1970. He was coming into the Carson base low at night and hit some power lines. No fatalities, and although he kept his pilot's license, and still flew occasionally, he was 'transferred' to public relations after that, which turned out well for him. he eventually retired as director of global airships for goodyear. I didn't know about this previous crash. thank you. oh, also, I saw you commenting in an Unxplained episode (secrets of the founding fathers) on hulu. very cool.
Great story! Your father was flying the Columbia tail number N3A, launched in 1968 and still flying, although the GZ-20 class are being slowly retired.
N3A had a bizarre accident in 1990 when an R/C pilot buzzed and then rammed the blimp with his radio-controlled plane, punching a hole in the blimp and forcing an emergency landing.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel indeed. in college, I worked at the Suffield, oh hangar as a field wage, and 3rd shift pressure watch for the GZ-22 Spirit of Akron. I didn't realize the historical significance of the hangar at the time. at some point, we also had the 'ghost ship' GZ-20 displayed there for visitors. clarification: we had the gondola of the ghost ship, not the entire blimp.
Two of my friends and I were travelling to Pompano Beach from Daytona Beach. As we drove, we got bored and then above the trees in the distance straight in front of us was the US Navy blimp. We commented on it talked a while and looked back to see it GONE! We talked about that looked back and THERE it was! This happened two more times as we talked stealth blimps/new tech, only to come to a bend in the road and see it had been going up and down on a tether. We didn't talk the rest of the way.
You sir are a gentleman & a scholar
That was a cracking vignette
@@babboon5764here, here!
North of Fort Lauderdale. FL is the east coast HQ fir the Goodyear blimp. It's not far from where I live/ work. I've seen it on the ground; only then do you really appreciate how honkingly big it is
Good Morning and Happy Friday THG and all you history fans out there.
Have a wonderful day. Thank you.
What a cheerful fellow.
And a good day and good luck to you too.
New Goodyear Blimps - now made by the Zepplin Corp... Had a friend live in Rockmart, Ga, on Wingfoot Drive... Used to make the fabric for airships there...
Thank you for this interesting story! Being from Alabama, I had never heard of the crash of the Vigilante. Yes, history deserves to be remembered.
Another tidbit. 60 years ago today, Feb 9, 1964 the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show and music in America was never the same.
I kind of look at it as a sad day frankly. Never a big British Invasion fan. And it killed off a lot of American music of the time. Anything that was not Beach Boys or Motown, basically disappeared.😢
Its always fun to see, from the 405 freeway, the blimp either docked or lifting off from its base, here in Carson, Ca.
I was born in Akron. My grandfather was a metal worker, he helped to construct the 1st Goodyear blimp.
Another great video
What's a shame is that there was worse accidents than the Hindenburg . It's because of the footage and narration that makes it so memorable!
So compelling and persuasive content delivery. THG is a polished diamond of storytelling 👍🙂
Very Interesting. I grew up in Houston, Texas and often watched the Goodyear Blimp fly by and land at the Goodyear Blimp Base in Spring, Texas, about three miles from where I now live. There is a small part of the original foundation left enclosed by a rusty fence next to a Lowe's Home Improvement store.
"And then I lost my wife in a tragic blimp accident."
"Goodyear?"
"No, the worst."
Lol
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I never heard you laugh in an episode.
I have many childhood memories of the Goodyear blimp flying overhead. I live in northern California. When the blimp flew up the coast on its way to football games in Portland or Seattle, they often flew over our ciy of Eureka. Why? Our airport had a relic from world war 2. A blimp tie-down pole! The only one between their starting point and Portland. When the winds got to strong, they tied down here to wait them out. From a young age i recognized the faint sound of their motor and knew to look up.
The failure of airships to find commercial success is tragic, I had the good fortune to fly in one produced by Airship Industries in The late 80’s and the sensation was amazing.
I had a chance to ride in one in Key West in the late 90’s. Word was passed “free rides for active duty.” After watching it bounce violently while tethered to the ground because of high winds I passed. It lifted shortly and the wind tipped it nose down almost crashing into trees before it stabilized, lifted and headed north to the mainland as a storm was coming in from the south.
THG, you rock! Thanks for sharing. Peace
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
I worked directly across from the bank building in Chicago which was given the nickname of "The Rookery" because of the huge pigeon population that sheltered up there as the building went unrepaired for many years.
I remember driving into Houston and seeing one of the blimps coming in to land in the airpark they had up in Spring. It was amazing. They closed that hangar and moved the blimp base somewhere else and I miss seeing it. Genesis (the band) rehearsed for the 1992 We Can't Dance tour in the Goodyear blimp hanger in Houston. It was one of only a few spaces that was large enough to accommodate the new stage set-up. There is a video here on You Tube called History Behind the Goodyear Blimp--Dave Ward's Houston that has the story of the blimp here and the end of the time.
Goodyear used to have (don't know if it's still there) a blimp hangar just west of the Goodyear plant west of Beaumont Texas on Interstate 10. I had seen the blimp there many times as I traveled thru.
So sad to hear about the bank tellers, I hope the development of the air yachts continue to improve under safer conditions. Research and development takes time should not be rushed. Thanks History Guy, this was a good one!
I had not known previously that Midway airport was established in order to keep planes from flying over Chicago.
I guess that from this point on, no one should name an air ship or a space ship, "Columbia".
*Names my Car Columbua* Lets see where this goes
@@Kamiyoda If one were to attempt to navigate a ship named Columbia up the Columbia river and wreck with no survivors?
Nonsense. If we did that we'd run out of good names. We'd have to name everything after politicians. 🥱 God forbid an Enterprise suffers a wreck.
Or anything...........
The Apollo 11 Command Module, named Columbia, went to the moon and back without incident.
I grew up in south carolina and we use to see a blimp throughout the year frequently. Haven't seen any In years
In the 70s, N4A, also dubbed Columbia was based near the San Diego & Harbor Freeways, in L.A. It was a common sight in those days, as it flew all over the L.A. Basin.
During the 1984 Olympics both the Columbia and the Fuji blimp were based there for aerial TV coverage of the games. One day I was driving past after the Fuji was airborne and Columbia was just lifting off. The two pilots then proceeded to "dogfight", circling around one another and bobbing up and down like two whales trying to dance. It went on for about 15 minutes before they went off about their business, and was a sight I will never forget.😁😎
I remember the Goodyear blimp being almost a nightly phenomenon over southern California in the mid seventies. A couple of times as it flew over our house in Garden Grove my dad took out his brightest flashlight and waved the beam at the airship. We were all delighted when we were spotlighted back by the blimp crew!
A good follow on episode could visit the airships Akron and Macon and the Navy hangars at Moffett Field In Mtn View, Ca..
From Blimps to Microchips: Moffett Field
ruclips.net/video/NDaAnKcwndI/видео.html
Forgotten Airship: USS Macon
ruclips.net/video/U2h1NNpxcFM/видео.html
Since I was a child, I've been fascinated by airplanes, helicopters, and airships. Saw blimps at airshows, but always wished I could see a huge zeppelin fly. Worked for an Ohio concern for awhile near Akron, and drove by the airship hanger - the photos I saw of it don't do it justice. It is literally startlingly huge. Sadly, for all their potential positives, airships just aren't practical/safe because of weather.
I used to work for Boeing / McDonnell Douglas at Long Beach airport and I remember a Goodyear blimp being based there. One day as we were looking out the window I saw that blimp doing Acrobatic maneuvers over the long beach airport. I was highly amazed.
The Goodyear Blimp was the first inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame that was neither a player, coach, or human.
Living on the Florida East Coast I've gotten to see Goodyear blimps heading to or from their Fort Lauderdale home on several occasions over the years.
The world was a grander place when airships plied the skies and luxury liners sailed the seas.
Yea, for the rich, who were the only ones who could afford these things.
I live only a handful of miles from Cardington Hangers where Airship Industries built the innovative but under some conditions hard to control airship Airlander 10 dubbed (because of its appearance) 'the flying bottom'.
[Hugely impressive to see such a massive thing a mile away when you and it are flying at about 2,000 feet or so too]
My wife and I witnessed its penultimate flight in 2017 (or maybe 2016)
Heard its very distinctive engines, went in the garden to watch it go over looking serene circa 1,000 feet & climbing
It returned maybe 20 minutes later much higher but 'porpoising'.
My wife asked 'isn't that a bit vigorous for testing attitude control'?
Afetr watching the way the oscillations seemed to get bigger with each 'wave' I replied that the engineers have a term specifically for the situation which I couldn't recall but it applies when atempts to control amplify the problem. [Vehicle swerves 5 feet right, driver corrects, that causes it to swerve 6 feet left, driver corrects & now it swerves 7 feet right etc] Only in the Airlander's case it was in the vertical plane and pitching at LEAST 30 degrees above and below its horizontal axis.
Sadly, despite valiant efforts by its pilots, when it came in to Cardington to secure to its mooring tower the nose smacked into the airfield.
Hanger repairs took months.
Finished and place back outside for further tests a storm blew hard enough to push airship AND its seveal mooring points half a mile or so across the airfield and into the tall boundary fence.
It was very badly damaged - pretty much torn into large strips - and never rebuilt.
Its rumoured work will be restarting on a successor.
Pilot Induced Ocilation
@@straybullitt Kind of ballpark conceptually there ..... but not quite
PIO is more 'hamfisted' over compensation, typically during landing.
The term I'm scrabbling to recall is an engineering one where cause is a system flaw
*Is there an Engineer in the House* ?
Got to sit in a tethered Goodyear blimp at an MA Air Force station back in the 80's. The attending mechanic briefed that we needed to be prepared to 'bail out' of the control car at a moments warning - which we had to do & did! Turns out that the blimp was sensitive to tail winds while tethered and had a habit of standing on its nose; which fortunately, it did not do on this occasion!
Every spring here in central CT we see the blimps flying over the Traveler's Open in Cromwell. Still wish they could be used for heavy cargo lifting. btw, noticed the saber behind you: did you ever research the Patton Saber, and how those were turned into Machetes during south pacific campaign?
I’ll research that. The blade hanging was a gift from the people at the USS Texas foundation.
There is something to be said about the power of an airship in the mind of people just seeing them. Years ago there was a golf course by my house and it was hosting the PGA senior men’s tour and the MetLife Blimp was floating over my neighborhood and it was the most surreal experience we there ever felt.
Ned, you magnificent bastard, I joined your Patreon!
Thank you sir. Your work is truly exceptional.
Who is Ned?
@@garywagner2466 Trying for a double, with both 'Patton' and 'Inglourious Basterds' and flubbed on the latter (faulty memory). My bad, trying to be too clever by half.
Pardon. Didn't want to go with just Lance.
I live near the Davenport Airport and have seen the Met Life blimp as it was coverage for the PGA tour stop called the John Deere classic.
Snoopy looks good in a large format!😅
Very interesting as always
hello from flushing queens
Love your videos
We crashed the hell out of blimps. There's a reason why we stopped using them.
There are some modern concepts that I think are worth exploring, but history is littered with blimp wrecks.
My mom visited her Uncle Bill in Akron when they were building the Akron and Macon. He fashioned a bracelet for her from a piece of aluminum. He worked for Goodyear his entire life.
The mountain near Piedmont, Alabama, is Cheaha Mountain. Also known as Mount Cheaha, it is part of the Talladega Mountains, a final southern segment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, unlike other elevations of the Appalachians in north Alabama, which are part of the Cumberland Plateau. It is the highest natural point in the state with an elevation of 2,413 ft.
It is definitely not part of the Smokey Mountains. I know this for certain as I grew up about 20 miles from Piedmont and Mount Cheaha.
It would be cool is they now made them safe and we could float around and enjoy flying around without the problems they had back in the day
They are still subject to the wind. A Goodyear blimp pilot was killed in 2011. But their safety record is quite good given the amount of flight time.
Thank you for the lesson.
Here's a little bit of forgotten history. The past tense of speed was sped. Just like the past tense of plead was pled. At least the past tense of die is not yet dead.
Bravo! I mourn our lost irregular winderful mishmash of a language. Recentky heard a barrator talking about uranium being shielded within "leed". I don't know if it was written correctly or not. Hard the opposite pronunciation error of lead on a different channel. Also heard a calliope error in the pronunciation of "calliope"! 😂 He pronounced it "cal i ope" accent on the cal.
For my bit, I insist upon writing everything out as I was taught in the Way Back. This prompts my device to attempt to shame me by asking if I want to allow or deny my own sending of "numerous texts". I tell it to allow them every time! Resistance is not futile! It's fun. 😊
Good Friday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Have a good weekend. Class is back in session...Pay attention, there may be a pop quiz afterwards. Lol
History Guy Please show me how you tied that bow tie. Was that a full length tie to start?
It is a standard diamond bowtie from The Tie Bar.
I knew diridgables were crashing all over but didn't know about the blimps!
Super cool video👍🏻
So , what's the difference between a blimp and a semi-rigid zeppelin? I remember when I was a young teenager, riding my motorcycle down a dirt road. A large shadow suddenly engulfed me, I looked up and the Goodyear Blimp was above me at very low altitude! Snuck up on me from behind and scared the crap out of me. I watched it fighting a head wind, it was going slow... in every direction.
The difference is internal structure, or lack thereof. www.caranddriver.com/features/a26797827/goodyear-blimp-wingfoot-two/
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Nowadays the litigation occurring after the Chicago incident would’ve ended the program.
I remember watching a news clip of that a long time ago. Actually a couple times... And the reporter was crying. It was just heartbreaking... Unless I'm confusing that with the Hindenburg fire.... Both are tragic regardless.
What is your understanding concerning the origin of the name "Blimp"? It is my preferred theory that the moniker "Blimp" is derived from the military designation "Type(s)" A-Ridged and B-Limp to denote the A type ridged structure comprising the Zeppelin's of the day as opposed to the gas-bag types, known as the B-Limp. Your thoughts???
That is the most common etymological explanation, but it lacks documentation.
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"Hubris" would have been a better name for the early airships 😢
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Ah, so that's why it's called a "ripcord"!
I'm starting to think Blimps are not the future.
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Interesting story, THG. But, they're all interesting.
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I live in Queens NY and if the accident would happen today it could had land in the Flushing Meadows Park the sight of the 1963 World Fair and the home of the NY Mets
A blimp crash there would only be the second worst disaster after the Mets.
You might have supposed Goodyear would have been a bit deflated by such a run of misfortune?
Was Columbia a blimp or dirigible?
Dirigible simply means a lighter-than-air ship that is steerable. All blimps are dirigibles, although not all dirigibles are blimps.
Columbia was nonrigid, a true blimp.
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Look-up the Air Ship, "Neponset".
I remember when the space shuttle Columbia crashed
Are the stories on this channel true?
Yes, this is a history channel.
I've just taken a blimp ride off my bucket list. Just sayin .....
Check out the expedition of Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1931 to go under the arctic ice in a WW1 submarine
It wasn't a good year for that blimp....
Ever think the name Columbia and flying craft is not a good mix?
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“Goodyear?” “No, the worst”
Black Sunday.
At least it wasn't the Hindenberg.
The Wingfoot Air Express crash was the Hindenburg before the Hindenburg.
All the film clips you show while telling the Columbia story are World War 2 US Navy K-Class blimps, totally unrelated to Columbia.
I used every film of Columbia in existence.
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I don't have a blimp story. Sorry.