Wow that’s incredible

I hope this is real. That’s crazy.

proof

My mum a as young child saw the R101 going over Hull in 1930.

How do you expect him to provide proof​@@snoopdogssb2

The days of the history channel showing proper historical stuff has long gone, sad really because old school style documentaries from the 90s and early 00s were some of the best.

Yah !

Now History Channel is Ghost/Bigfoot hunting garbage.

@@twt000 :( i like it

@@walterthecat2145 Great, have that garbage channel. Have fun.

@Ewan Black ; Great corroboration good response! Thankful for the many men who manned their posts and fought the good fight. Our respect and gratitude to the Greatest Generation.

This is the version I heard. But even if the radar was active, it seems the LW would not have detected it anyway as they were using the Chain Home frequency band to communicate with their own HQ.

Thanks Ewan, a great account.

Is it possible that the British knew what frequency the Germans used for communications and deliberately used it for their own radar? The Brits were very clever that way.

@@Tron-Jockey Possibly. Our sigint was years ahead of other countries at the time.

Wait until the daleks attack next year......

Wow! I bet that was a wild sight to see.

@@cherrynutz It was a childhood memory he never forgot

@@cherrynutz ..... .

At 775' long, and around 98' in width, with 5 550HP Maybach VL.II Gas Engines. Bet she was loud when Dr. Eckener added full power going over head

Grandfather lies to you I think. Lol

I gave a little chuckle when I heard that.

@@johnt.4947 me too, and they want to use it in cars now too, what fun that could be.

Well, the Hindenburg wouldn’t contradict this « most British thing » as well as the Zeppelins that did so when their H2 suddenly turned bigamist with O2 when ignited by a young flame 🔥

Hydrogen had another fault. The very small atomic cross-section enables it to pass easily between larger atoms and molecules, so that over a few weeks it escapes from custody. Helium does the same, but more slowly.

They could do about 70 MPH if I’m not mistaken. A lot slower than a plane but a lot faster than I’d have guessed!

@@oliverbruce6240 And seeing them coming from 70 miles away was certainly dreadfully slow... Of course the obtainable max speed depends on wind direction. When you're "running against the wind", you can't get near that kind of speed.

A nightmare and something out of the pages of H G Wells .

Not just the sight of an 804' monster flying slowly towards you, but the loud droning noise of the 4 huge Diesel Engines.

@@oliverbruce6240 70mph airspeed or air over ground ? I suspect airspeed. Just FYSA as an aero engineer, there’s a big difference here. Winds at altitude can be hundreds of miles an hour, and you can adjust altitude to find winds traveling in different directions (this is how a hot air balloon moves). So I suspect the zeppelins would do the same thing - adjust to an altitude favorable to the direction they want to travel and then go. Otherwise, I figure they’d get blown all over the place. Even with a relatively low mass, the zeppelins have a huge surface area. Ambient wind must have been something you had to work with, not against

Agreed

I reckon Dr Mark has a time machine and he pulls these stunts to one-up every other historian and surprise us all to inrease his viewcount. He's the Gary Sparrow of KZfaq. Has to be.

@@poppedweasel he might be The Doctor

He has a time machine & is just recounting what he is seeing. He is hardly ever home

@@marcoAKAjoe i know german shepherds are smart but you just blew my mind

I don't wish to be pedantic (he lied unconvincingly) but technically that wasn't a *raid* it was, at most, an *incursion* What's not generally well covered is part of the reason the Germans were foxed by British Radar was not that it was so advanced but because it was so much less sophisticated than their own (although at that stage theirs wasn't widely deployed) they kept misinerpretting what the were seeing. Len Deighton covers this at some length in his book 'Blood, Tears & Folly' (which is a huge inditement of the myriad errors just about all participants in WW2 made)

could've

I saw a zeppelin (actually a blimp, but that's an infelicitous word) flying over Dunedin when I was 4. By the time I'd persuaded my father to come outside, it was gone; I don't think he ever believed I'd seen one. It was in 1957 or 8, and it was on its way to McMurdo Sound as part of Operation Deepfreeze.

"Not again!"

Imagine tossing bombs and grenades over the side of said Graff Zeppelin ?

Watch the Howard Hughes film, "Hell's Angels," from 1930. In one scene they show a flaming Zepp dropping straight down, nearly landing on the two pilots that shot it up. Still scary!

As a kid growing up in the 1970s my grandmother lived on a street in Coventry with an old lady who had lost her foot in the First World War as a school child from a zeppelin raid.... she then lived in Coventry for the Blitz there is WW2!!!

My first posting as a young soldier in the 70s was to Dover. A stone memorial on the wall of a building near the railway station commemorates the fact that it had been damaged in a Zeppelin raid in April 1915. Sadly I cannot recall the exact detail but it will no doubt be online elsewhere...

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Are you mentioning Led Zeppelin?

@@tertiusimpostor yes

Ironically that is a British band.

I see it whenever I drop my trousers 8-) Sorry, couldn't resist!

@@zxbzxbzxb1 I have that problem on those Anaconda videos!

There was at the time a local suspicion that "pineys", the New Jersey equivalent of "hillbillies", had put bullet holes in the airship Hindenberg again, allowing oxygen from the air to enter some of the hydrogen gas bags and making the airship Hindenburg more vulnerable to a hydrogen gas explosion. It is said that if the hydrogen had been pre-mixed to the amount of 3% with a very slightly lighter than air gas called nitrogen in pure form, then the danger of a hydrogen gas explosion would have been significantly reduced, and that if inexpensive and non-flammable pure nitrogen had been pre-mixed to an even greater extent of about 17%, then the chance of a hydrogen gas explosion would have been almost eliminated. Helium is the preferred mixing gas, because of having about 29 times the lifting power of nitrogen, but nitrogen is an option for a non-flammable mixing gas as well. Technically, neon is a mixing gas option as well, being both lighter than air and non-flammable, but neon is much more expensive than either helium or nitrogen, expensive enough that neon is not in practice a good option as a mixing gas for reducing the flammability of hydrogen.

Wasn't the aluminum coating on the skin the main flammable fuel or accelerant and the hydrogen an accessory but rapid fuel??

@@billhanna2148 That allegation was actually exposed as a hoax, perpetrated by an entrepreneur who was developing hydrogen cell car batteries. Hydrogen was the main culprit responsible for the destruction of the Hindenburg, as was the case with all of the subsequent disasters surrounding Hydrogen-filled rigid airships. The doping compound used on the fabric covering changed little since Von Zeppelin's first ship and a similar doping compound was used on non-German ships from Britain and semi-rigid ships from Italy. When the Graf Zeppelin's sister ship was built and delivered to the U.S.(As part of the reparations of the Treaty Of Versailles.) she, too, had her fabric skin covered with the exact, same doping compound worn by the Hindenburg. The two "Super Ships" built for the Navy by Goodyear in Akron, Ohio and Macon, Georgia (The two ships were named for the cities of their birth.) both used a close variant of same doping compound on their fabric skin. Fire was not present when any of the above mentioned ships were destroyed.

@@RAMROD4708 thank you 🙏

My grandfather had a friend who was at Lakehust when the Hind. Blew up. He gave him a piece of the aluminum skin. I have it somewhere here. I need to locate it. A real piece of history!

friedrichshafen, you can also fly with the nt zeppelin in a tour over the lake, switzerland and luxembourg are situated at the same lake. also in Germany they call a lake a "see" this lake is called the Bodensee

@@straycatsmurf Luxembourg? Austria.

A great museum

@@conveyor2 rectify....Austria, Italy and Germany...

@@conveyor2 : He confused Liechtenstein with Luxemburg!

Dread Zeppelin?

@Robbie Daniel I see what u did there... you sly devil you...

@Robbie Daniel Zeppelin 😂

Very interesting, thanks.

Revisionist History doesn't count

Dr M. Felton a actual historian who does research. I'm happy to have him.

I have both lol. Mark Felton is more educational.

@@fishin_da_hood5020 Entertaining infotainment.

@@fridolfmane1063 "hey guys I graduated from the university of youtube"

that's one story- another is the Sonoma Flying Club

And amazingly, those were hydrogen balloons, too, not hot air. The mechanics of generating the hydrogen on site using acid on iron filings in a copper vessel are amazing, well worth another Mark Felton documentary

@@TheSoundsage Thaddeus Lowe balloons for the win!

Lajas, Puerto Rico, USA.

It has been said that no convoy that was escorted by US Navy blimps during WW2 ever suffered an attack by a U-boat.

Me too!

@@MarkFeltonProductions yay! I'm sure we will see more of them.

​@@TRHARTAmericanArtist Living not far from their base I saw the last of the Airship industries airships several times, including its near penultimate flight the day it crashed into its mooring tower. My wife and I were stood in our back garden watching and puzzling ~ It was 'porpoising' massively, the osciallation being as hgh as its length and completing te 'wave' in about two to three times its own length. We later learned it crashed 20 or 30 minutes after we'd watched it. Sadly, after months of work fixing it and getting in some stable flights, during very severe winds it tore loose from most of its moorings and dragged the remaining moorings across its field until it ripped its belly out at the perimeter on obstacles on the field and then the fence. Close too - you could touch the wreck as most of it was in the adjoinging field - it was a huge old thing.

@@MarkFeltonProductions Three is company!

@@babboon5764 that's exciting. I remember my father telling me about seeing the Hindenburg flying over in New Jersey when he was a kid. He's 91 now. He told me how gigantic it was flying overhead. He didn't see the explosion by remembered all of the family in shock when it blew up. What an exciting era it was.

He'd be the kind of super villain that would tell you his plans, and some trivia you didn't know about, before he finished you off.

Welcome to the world of addiction. Smoking kills.

It was specifically designed to be the safest place to smoke on the airship. The room was carefully sealed and had an air conditioning system to provide a positive air pressure to prevent the entry of any hydrogen gas.

You’d think the danger still would have kept them from lighting a match! It should have push the development of the nicotine patch or gum instead. Love all you do Mark - keep up the great history

@@mattstreckfuss9678 Memory tells me they used electric lighters, rather like car cigar lighters. All naked flames were, of course, banned. Even so, not a comfortable concept.

@@mattstreckfuss9678 Electric lighters only, matches were confiscated upon boarding.

Do you mean that blip that is in your blop?

I think it's covered in the exellent BBC series 'Secret War' - sone are on KZfaq and are well worth watching.

That was my thought -- the radar signature from that immense metal latticework must have glowed like the freaking sun.

@@robertmcgovern8850 Also, the paint used to dope the entire outer skin was filled with aluminum powder, to reflect the heat of the sun.

and used for a spy raid ummhh!

Wow, is the Zeppelin base used for something else today?

Shh and I will tell you a secret. The good Doctor of History is really a well seasoned and experienced Time Traveller, who goes on adventures back into historic times and place’s in order to secure the very best of interesting stories from the past to educate his devoted followers on some of the many tales from the past!

@@markfryer9880 I think you are right, there's no other possible way😁

That's more just one of those accidental coincidences that helped the British out.

@@aaronbasham6554 accidental coincidences are a British secret weapon. Without them, we're often screwed...... Or because of them. Either way, without an accidental or ironic coincidence, a scrap just wouldn't be British.

@@poppedweasel like the time the British army so convinced the Italian army of where they were going to attack that the majority of the Italian army was avoiding that space and accidentally where the British really were going to attack

@@aaronbasham6554 i didn't know about that. What battle?

@@matthiasvanhecke1283 lindybeige rambled about it in one of his videos on deception in warfare, so would have to watch it again to find out

Same here in Clinton County, Pa.being born in April 1957. Not far from the Williamsport airport, and Piper airport/factory. They seemed to be quite "popular" along the routes.

@@JeffCounsil-rp4qv Thanks. Your confirmation of the presence of Goodyear blimps is good to hear. Fortunately, they were not dropping bombs. But, ya kno, they just might have been running intelligence missions. 😁

Murphy's law strikes again?

yep. i was right

@JRK...... That's what she said!

@@gball29 (θ‿θ)

It's a Mark Felton Production

I have my PhD in Org behavior. My dissertation is Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Army. Ivan share it with you. I am a history fan. Your videos are so informative.

it was night vision induced by eating carrots....

Two pieces of information that where not brought up in this interesting account: 1. The reason Germany used Hydrogen gas was because of WW1 sanctions against them and the allies would not supply Helium Gas. (In which case the Hindenburg Disaster would never have happened.) 2. The other reason the German specialists did not pick up on the British RADAR, was because it was synchronised to the 50Hz power grid frequency and the detected signal was thought to be 'interference' from the power lines. And 'off the topic' : later in the war a DH Mosquito with secret RADAR on board was brought down over German lines. (I can't remember how it happened) and the Magnetron part of the RADAR was 'captured'. A German scientist 'thought' the loose brass nuts holding the Cavity pick-up loop wires were loose as a result of the crash. They could not get the Magnetron to work. The truth is, that the British scientists found that the brass nuts had to be loose to allow the pick-up loop wires to oscillate to MAKE it work. (The engineering tolerances were not fine enough at the time) As the saying goes, The devil is in the details.

Not really. The Zeppelin's giant hangers would be easy targets for Allied air raids so they were not likely to survive the war even if Germany won.

They reminded him of his own weight.

@@jamesphilip6737 Goering never liked the new generation of rigid airships.. He referred to them as lumbering gasbags, and was looking for an excuse to cancel the program.

No Quarter 📋😜👍

Maybe Hats off to Roy Harper. 🤣😂

@@funfact8660 One of my favorites...

@@JeffCounsil-rp4qv or perhaps Hot Dog

Get well soon !

There are five of them, and all are still used as the city's main market. I understand that none of the hangars were actually used for airships, but were built for a planned Baltic airship squadron near Riga. When dismantled and re-erected they were reduced in height, but they are still huge halls.

@@harri2626 I have memories of shopping in them when I lived and worked in Riga.

Other countries made airships. In fact Zeppelin wasn't the only German company. There were ultra-cool Schutte-Lanz made of wood! They WEREN'T Zeppelins.

@@fieldlab4 Oh, lots of countries had hydrogen airships. Britain had some too.

@@raisagorbachov There are British ones outside of Bedford.

they were probably Dazed and Confused they couldn't get any readings.

Of course you've never heard of it ! You died 41 years prior to that raid 🧐

Happy birthday!

@@MarkFeltonProductions thank you!!

The Tustin Marine base used to have some amazing blimps, but it was forced to close in 99... However, the world's largest Hangers are still on Tustin Ranch rd.

I see those Goodyear and Met Life Zeppelins flying around San Diego alot

Zing!

That Led Zeppelin was unable to fly because it was constructed of lead! "Led"!

Click AND like is my policy regarding anything Dr. Felton posts.

@@raygiordano1045 Thats a pretty good policy.