Very ingenious, I am 81 and an airship fan but I never knew anything about this clever mooring technique. Cheers from Australia.

It must have taken a great deal of time, passion, and persevering effort to put this video together, from the detailed models and animations to everything else that must have gone on behind the scenes in order to transform these assets into the clear, concise, and fascinating video it came to be. It is so interesting to learn how old technology functions; the designs of our forebears often displayed a simple ingenuity and thoughtfulness as is clear in the design of this landing system. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this! All the best!

AFTER HAVING SEEN SO MUCH ABOUT THE HINDENBURG....IT'S REALLY NICE TO SEE ONE OF THE ENGLISH AIRSHIPS USING TODAY'S VISUAL EFFECTS TO MAKE IT SEEM REAL. THEY REALLY WERE BEAUTIFUL THINGS. IT'S A PITY MORE PEOPLE DON'T SEE YOUR VIDEO. WHAT A GIFT. THANKS. CHALON.

I am so grateful for this video. It feels like witnessing the whole process as a person in the 1930s. Beautifully done !

One of the best videos about Airships/Dirigibles I've seen. Thank you for making it.❤

Someone's spent a lot of time on this one - and it's very good !

A remarkable and imaginative realisation of a successful technology that is all but forgotten. I was particularly impressed by the wealth of detail and the use of today's actual landscape to add reality to the scene

This is one of the best things I have seen in a very long time. I never knew how this was actually done and this video shows it all beautifully. Thanks so much.

Fascinating. As a kid in the 1960s I had a copy of an ‘Every Boy’s Hobby Annual’ from the 1930s which contained a special supplement on airships, and cutaway diagrams of the mooring mast. My mum also recalled the R100 passing over Liverpool when she was a little girl. It’s great to see a modern animation of how all this would have worked. Hugo Eckner was also a rather unlikely hero of mine. As an old romantic I’ve long had a soft spot for the pre-WWII rigid airships and sometimes lament what might have been. They do seem rather improbable vehicles and terrifyingly dangerous, but nevertheless many of the accidents appear to have been caused by complacency and political pressure rather than any inherent faults with the aircraft themselves. Were anything like them around today I’d still chance my neck for a flight in one.

I love all the little details I couldn't have predicted, like the winch room in the nose, or how the weights roll with the ship. Keep it up! Cheers from PA!

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

Excellent presentation, brilliant graphics and perfectly explained. This is a fine example of how to use modern graphics to bring history to life. Thank you.

Wow fantasic graphics to show in detail how it was done. It really was an engineering marvel.

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

This is a brilliant video - well done! How about a follow up video about how they were planning on doing this sort of thing for mooring to the Empire State Building?

Been interested in airships since I was about 5years old I am now nearly 66 years old my late mum watch the R101 fly over her parents house in South London the size the majestic site of the ship was fantastic I remember my mum say all her neighbours were out watching on thing she was so facanted about was see passengers waving out of the windows of the ship plus she heard the on board piano being played, I was lucky to fly on a small non ridged ABC 60 plus airship down near were I live at Shoreham airport in Sussex in 2001 it was a pleasure to fly in a modern small airship let's hope the airlander10/50 and modern day Zeppelin build bigger and better craft ,loved watching this video very interesting, peter

I have always been fascinated by airships. Some years ago, driving from southern Bavaria I chose the road to the north of Lake Constance and stopped off at Friedrichshaven to visit the Zeppelin museum there. It contains many interesting items, but the highlight is the mock up of the passengers quarters of the Hindenburg. It was well worth the visit and detour it entailed. This is a super video. Thanks!

Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve been floating around for a couple years, now I can see my family again

Had to last-minute Google how to do this. Thanks for the video. Don't know what I'd have done without it.

When I am returning from secret missions, I instruct my bio-mechanical lobster-clawed man-servant to lash my private airship to the weather-vanes of light houses! Saying that, I think this might have been a dream? 🤔 Hang on a minute, the nurse is coming.

It was a great dream that Lord Thomson had; such a shame it came to grief. If I were allowed a single trip back through time, I should probably use it to be a passenger in the R-100's round-trip flight. Bravo to Master Niemeyer and all who assisted. ☁️ ⛅ 😉 ☁️

Can't add anything more to the comments praising this great video, just wanted to say that this landing system is indeed more efficient and less labor intensive that German one of the same era. Probably that's why landing via mooring mast was chosen for the ongoing Pathfinder airship project.

This is absolutely amazing! I love your content! Cant wait for more!

As others have commented - this was wonderful to watch!

More vids like this please. I love blimps and more they're hidden history. Thanx sooo much

I love this video! I have always been fascinated by airships! What a pity, with today's technology these wonderful floating beasts haven't made a comeback!

This is simply wonderful. Many many thanks.

Absolutely brilliant to gather all this information and present it in such detail. Excellent job to the people that put this together. Your passion and dedication really show.

This answered so many questions I had, thank you! Absolutely beautiful renderings!

Excellent series of videos, thank you.

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

Superbly produced and informative, well done.

Very thorough! Great video

facinating! really interesting visual guide. It would be very hard to find all this information independantly. Thanks!

A wonderfully presented piece of work. Congratulations to everyone who worked on producing this.

Quite an entertaining and rather informative video about early airship mooring practices and procedures! Thank you for producing and posting!! :) :) :) :)

Ah the brave new world of the era with it's air ships, ocean liners, sky scrapers and other tech made possible with steel. What an amazing time.

This is another amazing video from The Airship Heritage Trust. I cannot thank you enough. Wow, the animation shows so clearly what I’ve read about for so long, and tried to visualise. And thanks too, for using R100 as the model. She’s almost as special to me personally as the R101 but it would be too harrowing to see the beautiful R101 docking, as she should have done at Ismailia in 1930. Just a glimpse of her was perfect. Brilliant. 👏👏👏

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

Lovely piece of work! I can appreciate the skill that went into this.

Thanks for the great videos. I always enjoy your work

Very interesting & excitant graphics too👍🏻

What a fantastic video. A couple of days before this appeared in my KZfaq feed I was listening to the 'Hidden Hindenburg' podcast and asked my husband how did we moor the likes of the R100 and the R101 on the high masts? How serendipitous.

i realy like rigid airships and this video had me learn alot

Fantastic video! Great graphics, really helps you understand how they ships were landed/docked. And how they looked when they were in the air. Again, great video, looks very realistic. Found your channel after reading His Majesty's Airship and looking to learn more about R100 & R101.

Great video. Thank you.

FANTASTIC VIDEO 😍

So detailed and the animations are amazing. This channel will definitely grow well. I know it’s cliche but can you consider a video on the zeppelins? Graf and Hindenburg. The interiors are interesting but maybe also a mention on schedules and the theoretical mast docking thing at the Empire State Building?

This is crazy history. Bet the tech could be vastly improved if they kept making air ships.

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

Visually stunning and a very clear explanation - thank you!

Hauntingly beautiful images even like this.

Fascinating. Thank you!

SO FASCINATING! THANK YOU!

I love these videos!

My best friend Nick Mullen sent me here.

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

I'm surprised this doesn't have many more views... Fantastic and interesting video! Thanks for posting!!

It is almost like docking a floating ship in the harbor. Hopefully the airship travel returns in the future

So cool!

Thanks for keeping alive this fleeting flash of history.

This is fascinating! Thank you! 😁😲

Thanks for posting this informative video!

This is a great video!

-- Nicely done!

Beautifully done !

had to subscribe to your channel as i hope airships of all types take off and you have content to keep making

That was extremely interesting

Bravo… excellent!

Amazing video. The video produced very strong positive emotions in me. *It was beautiful!* Thank you very much.

Thank you for these visualizations! I've just listened to an account of the fatal flight of the R-101. It's great to be able tosee what the author is describing in such vivid detail. I really enjoyed this video and I imagine I'll probably watch it a few more times.

Thanks for a fascinating presentation!!

Excellent video really well done and explained.

Quite a detailed explanation of how they did this.

amazing job !

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

Perfect explanation! Would you show us more info about the ww1 airships? How did they landed before this mooring tower? Did they thought about the danger of electric sparks during mooring?

Fascinating. A brilliant and ingenious method, sadly under-utilised because of the change of attitude to airships following the R101 crash. If only it had been the R100 heading for India, it might have changed history. .

Can't help but think of the mark that one of these bad boys would have left on those witnessing it for the first time. They must have thought that " this is the pinnacle of civilization ". Super envious on those being part of the ground crew.

Very nice work covering “Lighter Than Air” Thank you…a NEW subscriber 👍🏻

I wish zeppelin travel had been possible during my lifetime!

Fantastic

Very interesting, and extremely well put together

Very interesting

Great documentary

This is a great video. Could you please do a video on the German and American mooring methods? I’d love to see and understand how those methods worked.

Awesome engineering..!

That tower that King Kong climbed atop the Empire State Building was -- an airship mooring mast.

Cool animation

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

I'm trying to figure out why the yaw ropes are required at all - seems like they would prevent the airship from swiveling in the wind, which defeats some of the main functionality of the mooring tower.

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

This is a brilliant explanation of the process. I wonder how long it took in real time.

I would like to see how an airship coped with en route storms

Very interesting and complex. Seems like the cone should be stronger braced.

I wonder how the Hindenburg's landing line process was different from this! Maybe you could do a second animation on that?

Superb animation - what happens to the yaw lines if the airship rotates due to wind direction. Presumably, if necessary they could be disconnected and teh rollers relied on.

Kirov reporting!

Terrific .. do you have a video about weather and docking? How does Weather affect the ship at dock? How does a “sail” of this size behave in a thunderstorm?

there must have been significant risk of electric shock to the ground crew who was first to touch the lowered main wire due to triboelectric charging in wind and simple ever present electric field gradient in disturbed atmospheric conditions.