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@JohnMcPhersonStrutt 24 күн бұрын

Some years ago, i read "Slide rule" by Neville Shute Norway (a book i can recommend to anyone interested in rigid airships), which told of his involvment with the R100. As part of R100's flight trials, she flew over Ireland for a prolonged period. I asked my grandad (b. 1899, d.1997) if he had ever seen her in flight. I was fascinated when he replied yes.

@JD-wn3cc Ай бұрын

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

@rolandblack2773 Ай бұрын

Erm... erm...er... ermm... Makes it a hard listen...

@smudgey1kenobey 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Great find!

@smudgey1kenobey 2 ай бұрын

The government asked too much by expecting to send its new ship all the way to India. She only had one 16 hr. trial flight. Officials sent the ship out in poor weather, because the Imperial Conference was in session in London. She had to get to India and back as a demonstration while the conference was still in session. The trial flights planned by the captain had never been carried out. Thanks for making this terrific video about this great ship. RIP to the passengers and crew who died because of the poor decisions of others. (Info from Rosendahl 1938)

@Tylerz_theman 2 ай бұрын

Ues

@bambiloren 2 ай бұрын

we traded this for airplanes, which by the way, falls down from the sky with almost no survivors all the time

@ososkid 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great videos. I always enjoy your work

@TheBirdFlu666 2 ай бұрын

Too bad Methane isn't lighter than air! Because if you had an accident it would really annoy the people on the ground! Lol. 😜

@JesseDotExpert 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I have some original photos of the BAWL flying in the summer of 1975. It looks roughly 15% shorter (more oval) than in this video.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 2 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@martyrose 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Thank you!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it , thank you

@lauralauren6432 3 ай бұрын

Well how did they moor on Empire state builinds and othes. And as well on sea ships? Thanks

@superbookseller 3 ай бұрын

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!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! and glad you enjoyed it.

@mikhailiagacesa3406 3 ай бұрын

The R-100! Along with Graf Zeppelin, one of the successful airships. As an American, I give you permission to show the photo the Los Angeles, ahem, 'out of position' while moored. An example of how NOT to do it.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

Ah that famous set of photos... yes, a bit of a challenge and quite spectacular to see.

@wlento58 3 ай бұрын

So what happened to the Hindenberg while it was mooring in Lakehurst N.J. in 1937?

@DrBLReid 3 ай бұрын

I wish zeppelin travel had been possible during my lifetime!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

You never know.. with the new airships planned for the next few years, you might find that you may be travelling on one.

@vanessajazp6341 3 ай бұрын

Would really love to travel across the ocean on one of these. What an experience that would be!!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

Indeed, and who knows with the future of airship travel, it might be possible.

@vanessajazp6341 3 ай бұрын

@@airshipheritagetrust1419 I think it's just too cost prohibitive and dangerous, unfortunately. To remain lighter than air, the passenger cabin/quarters could only reasonably carry a few number of passengers, which means VERY high ticket prices that very few people can afford. Those who could afford it would invariably choose the much quicker route of jet travel. Why take 2 or 3 days to lumber across the oceans when you can be at your destination in just a few hours? You might get passengers who would pay for a nostalgia flight, but that would be about it.

@brandonman94 3 ай бұрын

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!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

With the new airship companies planning passenger ships, I think that it might be a change in travel attitudes in the not so distant future.

@cerberus6654 3 ай бұрын

It's pronounced as 'saint uhbear'. It's French.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@mekkler 3 ай бұрын

I'm surprised the 'occupiable' area was that large.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 3 ай бұрын

The plan was to provide comfortable accommodation for up to 5 days travel. The interior was about the size of a "small hotel" - 1920's style.

@LeeKennedy-cc6il 3 ай бұрын

Ur! What happens when people wanted to take a shit or have a shower. Would love to see these vessels fly again though

@dougearnest7590 3 ай бұрын

Can you even begin to imagine the stench permeating the clothing, hair, etc, of anyone coming out of the smoking room? Perhaps a hundred people sharing space to accomodate 20-something at a time (who - from the picture - I presume would be packed in rather tightly). I wonder what sort of ventilation set-up - if any - they used.

@PplEtr 3 ай бұрын

To me, it's interesting that, given the length of the airship, they didn't extend the passenger areas, including the dining room, salon, smoking room and passenger cabins along the outer hull of the airship, to maximize the view (which, to me, would have been the selling point of this mode of travel), and use the inner parts for ballast, gas, storage, etc. There must have been an engineering reason for this, as other passenger airships had a similar layout. I get that the idea was that most passengers would spend their time in common areas rather than in a sparse cabin, but that seems more like marketing backfill.

@pythosdegothos6181 3 ай бұрын

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

@dsmith9626 4 ай бұрын

Well. Now everyone needs to check out the astounding 17-minute EPIC song about R-101 called "Empire Of The Clouds" by Iron Maiden. Simply stunning. Trust me . Thank me later.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Yes it's really good! Have you also checked out "Cardington" by the band Lifesigns - highly recommended kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdOPkpSGyba8oJ8.html

@MrRossHartman 4 ай бұрын

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.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@davidholmgren659 4 ай бұрын

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

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you

@propboss 4 ай бұрын

Visually stunning and a very clear explanation - thank you!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! and we're working on more airship stories.

@californiadreamin8423 4 ай бұрын

I’m busy reading “Slide Rule” , the autobiography of Neville Shute Norway. It’s fascinating and details the mammoth stress analysis task by slide rule. I haven’t completed it, but I’m up to the crash of the R101.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

There are a few other books which are also available. I can recommend Airship On a Shoestring by John Swinfield. Again you get a really good idea at the engineering chanllenges and how they were overcome in the 1920's.

@californiadreamin8423 4 ай бұрын

@@airshipheritagetrust1419 Thanks for the info.

@carlosgomes2783 26 күн бұрын

You should be aware that Shute's account of the problems with R101 is very one-sided. He later admitted himself that the R100 team were embittered that their ship was "sacrificed" (scrapped) because of the failure of R101. For an engineer's objective view of R101, read "To Ride The Storm" by Sir Peter Masefield (if you haven't already, of course).

@californiadreamin8423 26 күн бұрын

@@carlosgomes2783 I haven’t read Masefield’s book. I might if I can get an affordable copy. However I have no reason to dispute the accuracy of Slide Rule. Edit: The book is too expensive. Furthermore , a quick Wiki read , suggests to me that he had minimal first hand expertise with the R101 nor the R100, and after 1937 he was a well connected journalist and business man albeit in aviation. His son was on my course at University, but I was only dimly aware of his father.

@carlosgomes2783 26 күн бұрын

@@californiadreamin8423 Yes, the Masefield book is a rare item these days. I wouldn't say Slide Rule was inaccurate, so much as biased against the design, construction and operation of R101. Masefield's conclusion is that R101 was no better or worse than any other airship of its time, certainly not the flying junk pile its reputation would suggest. The disaster he puts down to political pressure to rush her into service before sufficient trials had taken place, and the decision of Major G H Scott (who was NOT the ship's commander) to "press on" when delaying departure by twelve hours or so would have given clear weather and a tail-wind down to the South of France. R100 had her own problems due to Barnes Wallis's design - her skin 'rippled' at high speed and by the time she returned from Canada in August 1930 her entire outer envelope needed replacing. Shute doesn't mention that.

@davidholmgren659 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video...incredible graphics.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much

@Pyeknu 4 ай бұрын

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

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

I know! Maybe oneday.

@jeanlavoie5598 4 ай бұрын

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.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much indeed!

@I_Was_Chrispy_Kreme 4 ай бұрын

Try saying ‘Airship shed’ ten times

@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276 4 ай бұрын

My best friend Nick Mullen sent me here.

@russellmontielmontojo1974 4 ай бұрын

remember the novel The Airmen Whi Would Not Die.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Yes, a fascinating book.

@cremebrulee4759 4 ай бұрын

I wondered about the interior layout on these. Thank you!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thank you. Many people don't realise that the passenger accommodation was inside.

@johndavies8590 4 ай бұрын

My father, Ernest Wynne Davies, who was a rigger, was in the tail section when the airship crashed. He told me that he literally fell out through the fracture and into the water and swam to the sandbank. He appears in both the crew photos on the film. Thank you for keeping memories alive of these fascinating aircraft. John Davies

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you John. This is why we do the videos to keep airship history available to the wider audience. More coming soon!

@Persojet 4 ай бұрын

I would have loved a small recap of the ending for r101. Never heard of it before and video condensed it to "we all know what happened, it didn't reach xx"

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the idea, we are working on more videos and we'll add that one to the list. We don't want to make them too long, so breaking down the events and subjects. As you can see, they take a long time to produce, but we're getting there!

@darren3908 4 ай бұрын

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!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic! keep it safe! Enjoy doing the model and also you can now get the mast to be the "right size" for the ship.

@Galkac 4 ай бұрын

Cool animation

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rupertsanford4330 4 ай бұрын

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

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for that, and we're producing more videos and so hopefully will give you more of an insight in to these amaznig and different machines.

@jotabill 4 ай бұрын

Very well made video. However why is there no mention of the R100, built at the same time and a great success. It’s a fascinating story of private verses public enterprise. I recommend you read Neville Schute “Slide Rule”

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, and we've done one of the R100. If you want to check out our other videos in the channel, so you can compare the interiors of both ships.

@Petriefied0246 4 ай бұрын

I wonder if it would be possible to build a replica of just this area as a museum exhibit?

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

We'd love to do that! We'll need a big shed and LOTS of money. We'll have to stick to Virtual at the moment.

@AdamDTaylor 4 ай бұрын

So cool!

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@CoolKid-qk7tl 4 ай бұрын

5:59 “It was deemed safe because the floors and ceiling were made of Asbestos” LOL

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

I know - but at the time asbestos was used as a flame-retardant material. It's only years later it was found to be ... deadly .. like smoking!

@brianb-p6586 4 ай бұрын

The vintage map of the "British Empire" is hilarious. In 1924, Canada had been a nation (no longer a colony) for 57 years; it's still in the "British Empire" on the map, but only the eastern part... even in 1924, Canada stretched from Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic, extending thousands of kilometres beyond the range shown, so Ottawa wasn't a "far corner" of anything. The intention seems to have been to limit operations to coastal areas - replacing travel by ship, with overland travel continuing by train - so this makes sense, but that hardly covers the far corners of the Empire.

@markawbolton 4 ай бұрын

Beautifully done !

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@sangyoonkim5754 4 ай бұрын

Truly excellent effort on this video... may I ask which software was used to create the realistic visuals? I'm in the brainstorming stage of designing a large seaplane.. Thanks

@christov2002able 4 ай бұрын

Dr Who brought me here :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsCIiLKB16vedWQ.html

@feynthefallen 4 ай бұрын

It's interesting to see the differences but also similarities in design philosophy compared to the German Hindenburg.

@airshipheritagetrust1419 4 ай бұрын

Thank you - and remember the design was about 8 years earlier than the Hindenburg.

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