the pronunciation of "die Deutschlandfahrt" just killed me XD. love these historical stories tho' keep up the good work!

"Dye Dushandler Fart"? Oh the humanity!

Simon: "Anyone else here play Red Alert 2? The Zeppelins, they were the weapon of choice." C&C Fans: "Kirov Reporting."

1:53 "Kirov reporting." "Bombardiers to your stations!" Those things were really deadly, especially when upgraded.

Let’s get a video on the Hubble Space Telescope 🔭

I’d like to hear more about the modern day airships!

ticket on the hindenberg: ~7,000$ ticket on the concord: ~7,000$ 1st class ticket on any airline today: Still 7,000$

Part of why the event is so memorable is because of the event being filmed and also broadcast on radio. Since then the audio and visual have been combined to create a video that is like a live TV broadcast.

Do one on ITER... the US$22B multinational fusion project.

Need a video on the A10 Warthog. The only plane literally built around a gun.

Just a little correction, Simon: the Hindenburg's sister ship was the Graf Zeppelin II, which never entered service. The original Graf Zeppelin, transporting passengers at the time, was an older generation airship. Interestingly, the Graf Zeppelin was somewhere over the Atlantic returning from Brazil when the Hindenburg crashed. Its flight crew was informed of the disaster by radio and decided not to tell anything to the passengers until their arrival in Germany.

And not a word about Led Zeppelin and their first album cover!

Project: The floating tunnel between Denmark and Sweden

I would love to see a deep-dive into the Canadian Avro Arrow! A humble Canuck mega-project.

Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video.

Myth busters did a thing on this. The skin burned, the hydrogen burned, but together they burned like sparklers.

This might be an odd one to request but how about one on the removal of the Costa Concordia. I know there are larger cruise ships and this channel tends to focus on single objects rather than events but I can't imagine the removal of that wreck was anything less than difficult.

KIROV REPORTING!!!!!! 20 yrs later i still hear them in my nightmares...

You left out the reemergence of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company! which was a master stroke of genius itself!

"Hello, planes? Blimps here, you win..." - Sterling Archer

sorry to say , but Hindenburg was NOT president of Germany in 1936 ... main reason being his death in 1934 .

Pressing like for Red Alert 2 reference

Oooof. As a Yorkshireman who lived in Keighley… to mispronounce this badly really is a right clanger.

2:15 - "...these flying blimps." Zeppelins, or airships, are NOT blimps!

Suggestion: Minuteman Missile Silo system in America. There were a thousand of them and some are still on active duty.

Stop me if this has been done before, but I've always thought the Berlin Airlift would be a good topic.

The image at one minute and 30 seconds is the DLZ 130 “Graf Zeppelin” (2)! Look at the Engine nacelle! get your image and narration on the same page Guys The gas cells of the Hindenburg were built by Goodyear???!!! That’s a new one on me!

I can't believe you left out the most interesting part of the story. Parts of the wreckage of R101 were sold to Germany to build the Hindenburg

i think I-400 sub, Atlantic Wall, Maus super heavy tank and German Flak Tower is a mega project too

Small correction: No, Paul von Hindenburg was not German President in 1936, as he had died 2 years earlier.

In 1999, I watched a fascinating documentary about airships coming back, SOON! I was blown away. Still... still waiting...

6:06 The Hindenburg was *not* the first Airship to make a transatlantic flight. The Graf Zeppelin airship broke world records with the fastest aerial circumnavigation of the planet in 1929, before the Hindenburg was even built.

How do we make suggestions? I would like to put the Cheyenne Mountain Complex and its east coast counterpart the Raven Rock Mountain Complex on the list.

Simon, Can you cover the B2 bomber, it may not be as big as the B52 bomber but it is one if the few flying wings to enter production and could make for an interesting video

Those times traveling was really a life changing experience. The Hindenburg had Restaurant (with galley), Bar, (complete with a piano!), smoking cabin, sleeping cabins, shower, observation windows that could be opened. It was so stable, you could barely notice it was moving. There were 2 crew members whose job was to keep it leveled. Too bad the Hydrogen tragedy. Travel times were not bad, considering there were no commercial airplanes then capable to go over the Atlantic without stop to refuel, and were considerably less comfortable. Compare that with any airline today.

Strangely, I have been hearing "Zepplins are coming back" since the early 90's. If so, they are coming at a very majestic pace.

"Die Deutschlandfahrt" --- what happens when you eat a bit too much sauerkraut during Oktoberfest

Technically, the Hindenburg and other Zeppelins weren’t blimps. The Zeppelins had rigid frames, where with the outer skin of doped cloth over the frames, they could maintain their shape without the airbags within the frame being inflated. Blimps are specifically non-rigid airships that require the airbag be inflated to retain its shape. The word blimp itself is a bit of an onomatopoeia; the story goes a British soldier approached an inflated British military airship and flicked it with a finger, the sound produced by him flicking the airship sounded like “blimp”, almost like the cartoonish sound used for big drips of water. The U.S. Navy’s rigid airships, the Akron and Macon, were pretty amazing despite their crashes. They were sister ships of the same design, and contained hangars within their rigid frames that could hold 5 small scout airplanes that could were used to expand the search range of the airships. These scout planes were Curtis F9C Sparrowhawks, which only had an armament of 2 x .30 inch Browning machine guns. The Akron only flew for about a year and a half, before crashing in a storm in the Atlantic which resulted in 73 deaths and 3 survivors; the Macon flew for about a year & three quarters, when she crashed in a storm in the Pacific, off the coast of Monterey, which resulted in only 2 deaths (one sailor died jumping from the airship when she was still too high above the ocean’s surface, and the other died going back in to try & retrieve personal belongings), the other 64 crew members survived, due in part to the addition of life jackets & inflatable life rafts after the crash of the Akron.

My dad was there when the Hindenburg crashed. He said, I heard a click, then immediate wooshing sound, followed by the flames and intense heat. His theory it was a stray piece of lightning or static electricity because of the initial clicking noise. When the ground crew had some problems with the control ropes. several spectors, including my father lent a hand. My dad said, "Then, we ran like hell."

As a fellow Brit I’m concerned by Simons mispronunciation of British town names, Keighley (Kee’fley)

Here's a suggestion just to see how you do with pronunciations: the towering Mackinac Bridge linking the peninsulas of Michigan! It brought a boost in tourism to the Upper Peninsula, and made transportation from the industrial south to the forested north much less cumbersome.

As a steampunk fan I desperately want to see massive airships roaming the skys.

On the Oregon Coast there is an air museum in a blimp hanger. There used to be two hangers, but one burnt down. Up until the late 20th century, they were the world's largest wooden span buildings. One of them was in a James Bond movie where they flew an airplane through it. Also illusionist David Copperfield did a TV special in one of them, making a train disappear.

The first transatlantic zeppelin flight was done by R34 in 1919, followed up by Graf Zeppelin in 1928, then R100 in 1929 making it to Canada. At any rate I really hope that proper zeppelins do make a comeback, I've always loved the dang things to pieces.

Simon, the West Yorkshire town Keighley is pronounced 'Keith Ley!!!'

"Kirov reporting" Me - in a mild panic starts building any anti-air defense structures and vehicles!

Many thanks for doing this Simon it shows if you ask enough times you do listen and it was worth the wait it was amazing thanks again

Love the c&c reference!! I still play when I can.... great video folks!!!

Blimps are not Zeppelins. They have no internal rigid structure.

Iron Maiden did an epic 13-minute rock song about the R-101, "Empire of the Clouds". It's not quite "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" but it IS quite good.

The US Public Broadcasting television science program, "Nova", had an excellent episode about this very accident. They found a roll of film shot from a different angle to most that we have seen before, (as all of the news people were in one location, whereas the photographer was a "civilian" located about 500 yards away, in a different direction). These showed that it was indeed a matter of static electricity caused by the rain on the Hindenburg's back. They next went to a physics professor who showed that the actual construction methods were at fault and the whole event COULD have been avoided by a minor change in how it was made.

I did a portion of my Navy training in the huge hangar next to the spot where the H burned and crashed. We assembled each day just yards from where the mooring mast was. They took the bodies, and the wreckage, into that hangar. It is haunted AF! So many strange sightings and apparition reports over the years. We had an incident while I was stationed there.

Suggestion attempt 3: Nelson Class Battleships

I've had to replace so many mice because I've smashed that like button on so many of your videos. Keep up the great content Simon

I'm fairly certain that the Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic before the Hindenburg.

Congrats on 300K Subs! Very well deserved!

New drinking game: take a shot every time Simon butchers the name of something! :) Edit: Deutschlandfahrt is a particular favourite!

Ah the Hindenburg, the perfect analogy for the state above which it burst into flames.

Great video, this is a great series, well done! In the words of CNN the Hindenburg’s last flight was “mostly safe”

Great video, Simon. Love all your videos. Never move back home.

Maybe as a request: The big Tesla factories.

What about the Manchester ship canal. Big project very important and had some controversy at the time.

Great video and researching Simon & team 👌

Huge fan and love the random command and conquer reference. Keep it up!

I always forget that the Hindenburg had massive swastikas on the back 😅 I wonder if our perception of the crash would be different if that famous video were taken from the back...

. The Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic in 1928 well before the Hindenburg, or even a building shed larger enough to construct it was completed. Graf Zeppelin even had to do so to begin her audacious round the world voyage on behalf of the sponsor William Randolph Hearst. She even did the runs to Rio De Janeiro for years with that spotless safety record you mentioned, only being pulled out of service after the Hindenburg crash killed the market for such passenger flights. the British R100 was another, larger airship that also crossed the Atlantic with passengers well before Hindenburg, but thanks to poor engineering of the R101 sister ship, and generally the mistakes made by the Allied nations trying to improve on the German designs in the wake of the Great War, even by the Zeppelin company aided designers of the American Navy's Akron and Macon, all previous to the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin II the weaknesses of the basic design and its flight regime limitations were exposed. That great safety record of Ernst Lehmann and Hugo Eckener came at a price. Very careful avoidance of bad weather conditions for all of the company's flights or taking long swings around known storms using radioed weather reports from ships at sea. Other government subsidized builders attempting to match the Zeppelins assumed it was much easier than it really was, and so propaganda was just the icing on the cake of the amazing PR for that mode of travel in that time. After all, William Randolph Hearst was a master of the PR game, and those wealthy elites bought into it. I as well as others have spent years studying literature about this era, trying to understand the reasoning behind the great expenditures in the building of these airships so many of which were downed within a few years. Unlike some others I have become quite convinced that the weather problem will not be overcome for any true commercial uses of these giants. Some military or defensive high altitude drone airship uses might become justified, but for commercial and passenger uses these vessels, limited to altitudes where the great lifting capacity is useful, have to stay away from weather extremes and we are getting more and more of those as we continue to expend the very fossil fuels that enable large quantities of helium to be cheap enough for such uses.

great work guys!!

Big fan of all your videos Simone keep it going

Maybe a megaprojects on the Palace of Knossos?

Do the G6 howitzer mobile canon produced in South Africa.

I was born at Lakehurst NAS. After airships, Lakehurst became the focal point of building the Navy’s first helicopters. As one of the Navy’s best aviation mechanics, Dad got to work literally side-by-side with Igor Sikorsky and Frank Piasecki, the fathers of American helicopters. He said it was always his favorite duty station. He was always so proud of a picture of Him with his fellow sailors and Sikorsky and Piasecki. Dad got to fly the first squadron of Navy helicopters to the west coast. The early helicopters only moved at about 30 miles per hour. They literally followed the highways west. Not too far off the ground. Cars would often challenge the helicopters to a race. Dad always said Lakehurst was his favorite time in the Navy. PS. I would always tell friends...two disasters at Lakehurst: the Hindenburg and my birth. I always love going back and seeing those magnificent hangers.

I'm glad you mentioned cruise liners and the Titanic because that was my first thought. A lot of things I didn't realise about the Hindenburg

It’s pronounced “Keith-Lee” not Kylie..

Great episode! Airships were routinely crossing the Atlantic when Lindbergh "first" crossed. All he did was do it solo, an irrelevancy as hardly anyone does that these days. But please do an episode on NASA's airborne observatories, the KAO and SOFIA.

Keep up the good work duder.

i would LOVE to see more Airships! ... saw a couple as a child & it was always a breathtaking sight to see them float over a city! shame they are soo rare these days!

8:00 I thought Keighley was pronounced "Keith Lee".

British R101 - the biggest airship (at the time), and the deadliest crash among passenger airships (ever). Result: British -> Let's quit building rigid airships. Germans -> Let's make it even bigger!

Great episode 👍

nailed it yet again - sehr gut

2:00 Kirov reporting!

Do the Gerald R Ford class aircraft carriers or Iowa class battle ships

I just realized that the opening music sounds like something that would be on SpikeTV. Love the channel. Keep it up.

Yes, tell the research assistant who told you the hindenberg was the first ship across the Atlantic to do their homework next time. The Graf Zeppelin made the trip regularly, and in fact made it around the world before the Hindenberg flew, in 1929 vs 1937 for Hindenberg.

Hey dude, duralumin is an Aluminium alloy, not an "early form" of Aluminium

*The Rise and Fall* Ayyyy nice one ;)

Thank you for the nostalgic reference to red alert 2, I needed that.

The Graf Zeppelin had crossed the Atlantic before the Hindenburg. In fact, it circumnavigated the globe and there is over an hour long documentary made about the trim filmed in the 20s 0r 30s. Look it up. It's really neat.

WHAT?! Nothing about the Hindenburg being the cover art on the 1st Led Zeppelin album???

Please do a video on the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts!! It’s one of the most historic, miraculous civil engineering achievements that’s no one’s ever heard about!

I live next to Lakehurst and it’s pretty incredible to be inside of the hangar or to be able to stand where it went down.

I used to know someone whose father was holding one of the mooring lines when the old girl met her untimely demise. Unsurprisingly, the son was something of a Hindenburg enthusiast.

Please Simon do ThrustSSC Land Speed Record holding "car" :D

@05:54 Deutschlandfahrt xD

Please consider researching and putting together a video on the CF-105 Avro Arrow. :) Great video. Yes. I've smashed the like button.

A video about the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge on Interstate 10 could be interesting

Shouldn’t the title in the thumbnail be “ and ITS end” ?

You missed your chance to into in with some random led zeplin rift

I loved the video on the Concorde and would love to see a video about the A380 and it’s eventual retirement

Airships may make a comeback on other planets as well.. check out the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) project. I just hope they come back with a little more style than the bland balloons you featured in a few clips - something more like Koopa's floating pirate galleon.