Great catch! Appreciate you sharing this. I’ve lived in the inbound flight path of Moffett most of my life (two houses) and there’s always something good happening there. 😂 Hopefully this will come over one day.
I urge you to watch the video again and then hit like and subscribe. That was a flight. The aircraft hovered over the runway under its own power, untethered.
Danke für das Video ! Ein sehr schönes Luftschiff. Anscheinend gab es Probleme mit den Heckrotoren um es in der Balance zu halten. Das wird schon noch. Ich freue mich auf das nächste Video. Greetings from Germany.
The FAA gave clearance for this to fly about a year ago, I wonder why it's only going out now. Also, it looks as if it was about to do a USS Los Angeles style headstand.
The FAA cleared this vehicle to fly on 6 September. This is flight testing. It’s baby steps. Your car in 1935 didn’t have seatbelts airbags or power windows, this vehicle is loaded with new technology, and the test card went exactly as it was planned.
@@paulhelman2376 I will notify the airship designers of their failure to make the fins large enough, If you can tell me how these fins work at zero airspeed.
Almost exactly half the size and not filled with a flammable gas. This aircraft has electric motors and technology that the Hindenburg did not have 80 years ago.
@@fw1421 almost exactly half the size and not filled with a flammable gas. This aircraft has electric motors and technology That the Hindenburg did not have 80 years ago.
why so nasty comment section? just some old folks ranting about it for some reason. this is an interesting and nice idea, even though something similar to it could probably be built for way less insane price. at least if the FAA HEAVILY revised their regulations on airships... the aerosmena, flying whales and h2 clipper airships all seem feasible in a few years but unfortunately their designers don't have sergey brin's money...
@ No, not at all. You can lift a great deal more with a vacuum than you can with any gas. The tricky bit is coming up with a structure with the strength to hold a vacuum while dealing with all the other stresses and still float.
I went to google & I just learned that helium & hydrogen do weigh something, it's just less than "air". I promise to let you know "when an engineer comes up with a way to make a rigid dirigible that uses vacuum rather than a lifting gas".
Helium is about 7/50ths as dense as air. Let's just round that up to 1/5th. By using vacuum instead of helium you could lift another 1/4. With helium there is no pressure difference, with vacuum, you have the weight of an elephant for every 4sq feet of surface.
Its the USS Akron reincarnated, only all electric In a wind gust it will become one giant sail. I wish them well in their folly. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron
Your fear of the future has been noted. I too wish people would leave "good enough" alone. We have horses, they eat grass at the side of the road, & then people like you come in with your cars burning highly flammable gasoline. When the horse did everything your car does and my horse doesn't need a nationwide network of gas stations. We had ocean liners & then people like you wanted "intercontinental transport for everyone" so now you hop on jets packed in like cattle for a few hundred dollars to cross oceans, when the ocean liner did it perfectly fine with better dining. People just need to learn how to accept "good enough" & not try anything new because new scares some people.
It’s not my job to educate you. if you look in the description, there’s a link to the manufacturer and there’s a web article about it. once again it is not my job to educate you.
there are way way way way WAY worse ways billionaires spend money than this, although I reckon something similar to this could be built for considerably less than $250,000,000
WOW, a 21st Century rigid airship?! I didn't know anyone was still interested in building them. Amazing stuff!
Thank you for your time and effort.
Thank you for noticing. The life of a plane spotter is not an easy one. 😁🚁
I’m glad to see zeppelin come back in my lifetime…..!👍🏻
Awesomeness 😎
20's are making a come back as in 1920's
What's with all the hate? This thing's cool!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! I do not know what is up with the hate, but there is a lot of blimp hate out there.
Envy!
Great catch! Appreciate you sharing this. I’ve lived in the inbound flight path of Moffett most of my life (two houses) and there’s always something good happening there. 😂 Hopefully this will come over one day.
Very Cool Thanks
Living the dream!
That was very cool, but the "flight" was a tow on the portable mooring mast.
I urge you to watch the video again and then hit like and subscribe. That was a flight. The aircraft hovered over the runway under its own power, untethered.
@@wcolby My bad. Glad the zeppelin is still alive.
Danke für das Video ! Ein sehr schönes Luftschiff. Anscheinend gab es Probleme mit den Heckrotoren um es in der Balance zu halten. Das wird schon noch. Ich freue mich auf das nächste Video. Greetings from Germany.
danke für den Kommentar. Ich versichere Ihnen, dass es kein Problem mit den Heckrotoren gab. Die Heckhöhenlage im angedockten Zustand ist erwünscht.
Led Zeppelin...totally cool.
Well they never gave up 😁👍
The FAA gave clearance for this to fly about a year ago, I wonder why it's only going out now.
Also, it looks as if it was about to do a USS Los Angeles style headstand.
The FAA cleared this vehicle to fly on 6 September. This is flight testing. It’s baby steps. Your car in 1935 didn’t have seatbelts airbags or power windows, this vehicle is loaded with new technology, and the test card went exactly as it was planned.
fins are too small for adequate control.
@@paulhelman2376 I will notify the airship designers of their failure to make the fins large enough, If you can tell me how these fins work at zero airspeed.
@@paulhelman2376 That's likely why there's the small thruster plants at the extreme aft (tialcone) of the ship.
Thank you, I saw a number of articulating propellers at the tail of the aircraft & there are four more motors on each side.
How does it compare in size to the Zeppelins (like the Hindenburg) of the 1930's?
Almost exactly half the size and not filled with a flammable gas. This aircraft has electric motors and technology that the Hindenburg did not have 80 years ago.
How does this compare with the Hindenburg?
@@fw1421 almost exactly half the size and not filled with a flammable gas. This aircraft has electric motors and technology That the Hindenburg did not have 80 years ago.
It's new and shiny.
OH! THE HUMANITY!
How many times has Les Nessman won the "Buckeye Newshawk Award" ?
@@wcolby If you must know Walt, it was five times.
What is its load capacity? How does it fly cargo? Interior? Slung?
I don’t know a lot about it. There is a link to the manufacturer in the description.
why so nasty comment section? just some old folks ranting about it for some reason. this is an interesting and nice idea, even though something similar to it could probably be built for way less insane price. at least if the FAA HEAVILY revised their regulations on airships...
the aerosmena, flying whales and h2 clipper airships all seem feasible in a few years but unfortunately their designers don't have sergey brin's money...
Flight? What flight?
Paint it red and dress somebody up as Pennywise.
@@RealTechZen it was a test flight. It hovered by itself untethered over the runway. There’s a video of it. You can see it.
Hungry for a pickle now...
Wat kind
Haw!
Yall lemme know when an engineer comes up with a way to make a rigid dirigible that uses vacuum rather than a lifting gas.
I’m no aeronautical engineer, but I believe that using helium or hydrogen is even more effective than using the absence of air.
@ No, not at all. You can lift a great deal more with a vacuum than you can with any gas. The tricky bit is coming up with a structure with the strength to hold a vacuum while dealing with all the other stresses and still float.
I went to google & I just learned that helium & hydrogen do weigh something, it's just less than "air".
I promise to let you know "when an engineer comes up with a way to make a rigid dirigible that uses vacuum rather than a lifting gas".
@ Well, thank you very kindly, wcolby. I will greatly appreciate that.
Helium is about 7/50ths as dense as air. Let's just round that up to 1/5th.
By using vacuum instead of helium you could lift another 1/4.
With helium there is no pressure difference, with vacuum, you have the weight of an elephant for every 4sq feet of surface.
Largest? The Hindenburg was 803.8 ft long. That's about double of the one shown here, at only 408 ft.
The Hindenburg no longer exist.
I think he meant currently flying, not all time.
I didn't see it fly.
Everyone else did. you should try harder next time.
Should have gone to SpecSavers
Its the USS Akron reincarnated, only all electric In a wind gust it will become one giant sail. I wish them well in their folly.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron
Your fear of the future has been noted.
I too wish people would leave "good enough" alone.
We have horses, they eat grass at the side of the road, & then people like you come in with your cars burning highly flammable gasoline. When the horse did everything your car does and my horse doesn't need a nationwide network of gas stations.
We had ocean liners & then people like you wanted "intercontinental transport for everyone" so now you hop on jets packed in like cattle for a few hundred dollars to cross oceans, when the ocean liner did it perfectly fine with better dining. People just need to learn how to accept "good enough" & not try anything new because new scares some people.
$250M white elephant lol
That is a blimp
Not a Blimp. It has a carbon fiber skeletal frame.
Blimps do not.
It's a dirigible - a rigid inter frame.
Zeppelin
This is the compromise of the Green new deal.
This is the cheapest form of global transport.
It's 1935 again in more ways than one.
A waste of time to watch there's no narration no information about this Airship there's nothing it's just a bunch of footage with no narration
It’s not my job to educate you. if you look in the description, there’s a link to the manufacturer and there’s a web article about it. once again it is not my job to educate you.
And a whole Internet just bursting with answers.
Freaking waste of some one's money!
Building it clearly employed a lot of people though! 😂
Will be the cheapest form of global transport.
there are way way way way WAY worse ways billionaires spend money than this, although I reckon something similar to this could be built for considerably less than $250,000,000
Waste if money