Absolutely mind bending. I wish I could go back in time to see one of these giants in person. Great video. Well done.

Oh honey are ya makin any money Thats all i want to know

I do remember the Goodyear blimps in Akron Ohio. Also remember the soapbox derby in Akron. And all our mansions that we played in. Now they call it "flyover area. America used ro be innovative. Now it is a homeless druggwd out junkyard. What hapoened??😢

wrong way to built one in water or air still need flight deck f 35c are perfect for this

that's pretty cool I'll call you later I have to go to the store waiting to see if she wants to go with thanks for the movie

I can't accept 4 tonnes of gasoline this would not be acceptable!

I can't go along with the narrative, Electricity was Free still is, there is no profit in Free!

The United States did not and boycotted the sale of helium to Germany for the Hindenburg not the other way around

Got to wonder had the Navy had stuck with airships (not blimps) how something like Pearl Harbor or better yet the Battle of the Atlantic might have played out. Imagine the Akron with radar. It would have been a huge menace to U-boats.

Wow!

Never got to see her but Hanger 1 is awesome! Was stationed at Moffett for two years.

Fascinating history !! Really enjoyed and learned a lot. Thank you.

these were so massive and impressive craft to look at but ended up being a bad idea.

it's amazing how big these airships were, too big.

In less than 100 years we went from this to AI controlled military drones (soon)...... scary.

Around the 13-14 minute mark, is that a plane flying back to re-hook itself to the airship in midair?!

So much un-true history....

Thank God the US Navy gave up on airships. A giant target in the sky, slow moving, and its vulnerability to rough weather makes airship useless in warfare. The only thing airships are good for is advertising during peace time. The absolute absurdity that a gigantic target, slow moving, easily damaged by projectile airships can be used by the military is ridiculous. There were times in this film documentary when the narrator seems to advocate airship use in the military. What type of reasoning is this? Eventually after spending an outrageous sum of taxpayer money this crazy idea was abandoned. With the approach of WWII the decision makers were forced to stop wasting taxpayer money, develop effective weapons, and discard this joke. The number of disasters associated with airships is a testament to its failure. Regardless of national fabrication, structural design, source of air-lifting force, ... All airships ended in disastrous failure. That itself should tell you this does not work especially for the military.

Absolutely fascinating. I watch all parts one after the other. Glued to it. I have had a thing for the old rigid airships. Enormous yet graceful. Brave crews hanging on the plane cradle banging away at the hook to release the plane. Yikes!

Fascinating video. Have never seen before this level of technical detail. It really underlines the high technologies and massive resources that were going into these machines. Literally the Apollo moon program of its day.

Fascinating thank you

Mine is bigger then yours

Men and their toys...

It crashed of course. But because it was helium filled at least it didn’t explode like most of them did.

Thank you for all your research and time you invested in making these videos! I saw an exhibit of the Akron at the Cradle of Aviation museuem on Long Island and had to learn more.

I miss the big airships but not the music of the era.

thank you

Nice and best view of the Hindenburg’s conflagration! The last time a swastika flew over America. Swastikas are best seen on the fins during its flight over Manhattan, summer of ‘36.

Beautiful documentary! Instead of just something floating around out there, we are personally acquainted with the development , operation and downfall of these aircraft. FDR was involved, the airplanes were called sparrow hawks, there was a piano on board. 🤗🤗🙄🙄

I grew up in Sunnyvale in the 70s and 80s. I fondly remember going to airshow at Moffett. They would give indoor hot air balloon rides in Hanger #1. They would only travel up and down, but that's how big it is. Sad to see the skin taken off a number of years ago. It sits with the girders only. :(

I grew up in Sunnyvale and saw P-3s come in and out of Moffet for many years. Went to many airshow there too. I was sad to see yhe skin taken off Hanger1 for yhe last number of years.

Built by Good YearZeppelin Corp wich was owned by 75% share by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH in Friedrichshafen/Germany. Leading engineer had been Karl Arnstein.

I was at the Pensacola Air Museum and I saw that one of the Aircraft was from the USS Akron because on the side of the plane it had AKRON on it, idk if is from the Akron because it doesn’t have the Little Hook on the top but I believe is from the Akron, Also I saw the Area on the Upper floor of the Airships or Blimps area which I really liked since I like History and Airships

Killer music selection.

I could watch this stuff all day. I can’t believe that I just recently discovered that a USMC base I was stationed at for three years (MCAS (H) El Toro in Tustin California)was originally built for these behemoths. That explains the LTA ( Lighter than air) designation that was still attached to the name. There was a deflated Goodyear blimp in the hanger where we played basketball.Another possible clue lol

Is Ramey Cord Bungy cord? Cannot find it on a search.

I grew up in the shadow of the Goodyear Airdock and to see it dwarfed by the Macon is crazy!

Went down the Goodyear Airdock rabbit hole the last 3 hours. Was going nuts trying to find info on how the plans took off and landed on the Macon and Akron. Thank you for the video!! Those pilots were bonkers

Thankyou. This was interesing and also helped my fall asleep.

Who else found this after watching Indians Jones and the Last Crusade?

Excellent photos....fills some voids

They made the Zepplin, yet somehow this jake is experi mental

Page 47 1783 is the year where the balloon was invented.

My father was a Machinest mate on the USS Shenandoah.

You should be commended for your hard work. These are works of art! Great job man.

Fantastic documentary thanks.

At 18:15 there are the gas cylinders - my god, there are so many it doesn't look real - it looks like a matte painting for a science fiction movie. I tried to roughly estimate how many - they look like k cylinders - maybe 210-240 cubic feet each dep. on fill pressure. My best estimate is about 10,000 cylinders, but that's only at most 2.4 M cu.ft., so there actually may be 25,000 or so cylinders. Mind boggling scale - I didn't know there were that many k cylinders in the whole country then. Amazing. Those cylinders can last in service 60 years or more. I wonder if those cyl. were sold or scrapped after use?

No watermark. *THANK YOU*

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Watching this excellent program for the third time. Quality you should be proud of sir. Thank you very much.