What Happened To Blimps?
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Blimps were once at the forefront of aviation-at least before airplanes innovated past their lighter-than-air technology. Now, airships are often used for advertising or aerial broadcasting, which is exactly how Goodyear utilizes its fleet of airships. In fact, there are only 124 pilots with a rating to fly an airship, and there are a mere 39 registered airships in the U.S., according to the FAA. Now, a small handful of companies want to change that. Blimps are more carbon efficient than planes or boats, and they can be used for tourism and cargo transport, not to mention military purposes. What happened to the giants of the sky, and what’s being done to bring them back.
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What Happened To Blimps?
The reason why we didn't see goodyear blimps in 2020 is because 2020 wasn't a goodyear
LOL true. 2020 sucked
Amazing lol
Bravo....👏 Bravo....👏 You win the internet fine sir. 🍸
Great quote!
Wish we could all go back to 2016
Seeing a Blimp is one of the simple joys of life.
its super awesome, i live near the goodyear blimp base in Carson, California and its amazing to see it floating around.
Never seen any in Australia would love to tho
nah rigid airships are cooler
_"It looks like a scene, from 1992"_
The people in past were too _"imaginative"_ about the future
To be fair, those people literally saw the creation of the modern vehicle and hundreds of life changing inventions. The only life-changing thing many of us have seen is just the internet and smartphones. We are in an era where innovation has been stagnant for quite a few decades. If innovation had kept the same rate as back in the day, we could be on Mars right now.
@@zualapips1638 bro we have been to the mars and it's not livable, are you under a rock or what?
some aspects of what they predicted what the year would be like has came true
@@PAYDAYHEDGE He's probably talking about a manned mission or colony. And yes astronauts can survive on Mars with the right conditions and precautions.
People have always been like that about the future.
Imagine if the Hindenburg never exploded.
Airplanes would have still eclipsed them. There death was inevitable, It just would've been a slower (which the video actually covers).
Nothing happens with just only one accident. It is a series of repeated events where Hindenburg was the last one when people realised enough is enough.
@@kutter_ttl6786 still they look cool. Could have been used for fun purposes.
@@shashank2164 it’s hard to use it for recreational purposes seeing. As they cost like 400 million bucks and it would be hard in a lot of other ways
The LZ-129 Hindenberg was originally intended to operate with helium as the lifting medium, but congress changed it's mind about selling helium to the Germans when they saw publicity photos of it with swastikas plastered on its tailfins
I used to think the only usable part of a blimp was the passenger compartment that hung below the ballon structure. When I finally saw pictures of dirigibles from the early 1900’s with massive interiors within the ballon itself my mind was blown. Would be so cool to see a modern dirigible.
Woww I never knew this. What should I google so I can seen?
@@cookdislander4372 And since "within the ballon itself" might be misleading: The passenger compartments were inside the round hull of the airship, as well as the gas cells. The gas cells filled the major part of the volume inside the hull, but not all of it. There was room for passengers inside the hull, under the gas cells, near the bottom.
@@cookdislander4372 UA-cam "Hindenburg Zeppelin Replica" from "Genius at work" might be better. Short, just music, but English descriptions.
I clicked on this video because yesterday I saw a tiktok of a girl crying because she found out there’s only 25 blimps left in the world lol
Same
LOL SAME
Lol not same
Lol same, I guess
Crying? Really? Oh I gotta see this 🤔
“The World is Yours”. Most iconic use of the blimp ever.
Best one out of all
Push it to the limit
I miss seeing Goodyear blimps over Yankee Stadium as a kid
Same thing when I went into Talladega NASCAR race and seeing the blimp flew over the stadium
it's not a goodyear
Oh ok
@@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet yep
There was a german company called Cargolifter who tried the exactly same thing in the early 2000s and sadly had to stop due to a lack of investor trust and the cost intensive process of building a Zeppelin. The concept is still pretty interesting imo
Yeah, I was thinking about this, too. Their factory became the now largest indoor water park in the world. I hope it will go better this time. :-)
The costs?!? Are you joking? It's orders of amplitudes cheaper than building any passenger jet.
@@RenoLaringo yeah, but just the needed infrastructure for building and maintaining these ships were just gigantic. New staff trained on new equipment, extremly rare parts that had to be build in small quanitites driving up price. Airbus or Boeing get subsidies and the infrastructure for passenger jets is already there.
The estimated costs were too low and the schedule too ambitious.
They thought 150 million Euro would be sufficient to build the infrastructure (hangar etc.) and for the development and construction of the first prototype.
But for this 300-400 million Euro would have been needed.
There were a number of issues to address: a freight zeppelin has different requirements than a passenger zeppelin. They also aimed to overcome some known problems with the old huge airships. And also to reduce the personal needed to operate.
They need for this longer than anticipated, but were generally on track.
The patents registered by CargoLifter are now owned by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen. Known for their smaller Zeppelin NT models (semi-rigid airships). The modern Goodyear Blimps are Zeppelin NT models. The CargoLifter CL160 would have also been a semi-rigid airship.
If they would have been able to built a working prototype, I'm sure it would have been an economical success.
160 tons load with less restrictions on the dimension of the load would have found customers. Wind energy but also parts beyond the 5,50 m height restrictions for road transports.
I’ve actually ridden on the Goodyear Blimp before. I didn’t realize how blessed I was to be able to do that. It was an amazing experience.
How was it? I've always wanted to!
I've seen videos of people flying in a blimp. Looks boring as hell.
i remember seeing goodyear blimps over my house like 10-15 years ago, this unlocked a memory
They’re in the alternate universe. The Fringe Division knows what I’m talking about.
Get the Cortexiphan and go "Over there" without damaging physics?
Fringe squad assemble
#FringeGang
Eyyyyyyy squad
what do u mean explain
When I was a kid growing up in San Pedro, CA (early 80s), Goodyear blimp sightings were a daily occurrence. Same with those planes that write messages w/ smoke.
i remember back in the 90s you’d always see them. always the good year blimp. also if you remember the movie the rocketeer the last part of the movie takes place on a blimpZ
Great blimp scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, too.
@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ Hello, Airplanes? It's Blimps...you win! Bye.
@BigSexe We know. We're just using the term "blimp" synonymously for the sake of brevity.
@BigSexe the Graf Zeppelin, which was originally built and flown in the 1920s, and made the first passenger carrying flight around the world in 1929, had swastikas painted on its tail after the start of the Third Reich, as did the Hindenburg’s little known sister ship, the Graf Zeppelin II. The man in charge of the Zeppelin company at the time, Dr. Hugo Eckener, was no fan of the Nazis, even being considered as a candidate for the German presidency in 1932, the election that Hitler lost to General Paul von Hindenburg, but where Hindenburg later appointed Hitler as chancellor, after which the Zeppelin company was nationalized due to Eckener’s open criticism of the Nazis. After the Hindenburg airship disaster, the Germans built one last Zeppelin, the Graf Zeppelin II, but this one was inflated with helium, despite a shortage in Germany, and the USA’s embargo on supplying helium to Nazi Germany, which was why the Hindenburg wasn’t filled with helium. The Graf Zeppelin II never made a commercial flight with passengers, but it was sent to spy on the British Chain Home radar network in 1939. Afterwards, the two Graf Zeppelins were put into storage, and later scrapped for their metal to be used in the construction of military aircraft.
i also used to see them flying around my house a lot back then but haven't seen them since unfortunately
I can see zeppelin’s almost every day here at Lake of Constance, they are used for tourists round trips, it’s really magical to watch.
Not this year, tho, sadly...
Thanks for calling it a Zepplin instead of a blip. UA-cam presenters cannot seem to understand the difference. A company called airship ventures used to make sightseeing trips around the San Francisco Bay area. I was lucky enough to get a 45 minute ride as a Christmas present (great discount at $250). Low and slow and HUGE windows.
I wish I could post photos in these replies. It was the memory of a lifetime even at 45 minutes. You can search for Airship Venturesx Mountain View California.”
"Hello, Airplanes? It's Blimps...you win. Bye." - Sterling Archer.
Lana - be careful! Jesus the HELIUM!!
@@XRoyBatty6 Rigid airships combine the pampering of a cruise ship with the speed of--- Some other slightly faster ship?
_RIGID AIRSHIP!_
I live the Blimps I loved their distinctive motor sound when one of them flew over our house in 1978 it was so low I thought it was going to crash but it sailed. They were at first silver and they would fly over for the United Way every September. We even saw them at Lunken Airport up close in 1972. They always excited me to see them and to hear them. Thanks CNBC.
No one:
CNBC: Let's talk about Blimps
They tryna distract you from the fact that their benefactors are losing billions of dollars because of GME
Boycott Robinhood
Normally I hate this comment format because it's so overused, but here it's actually applicable.
Lol
It is better than talking about other topics
My father built blimps at Goodyear in the 30s while attending Kent State. When war broke out he joined the Navy, they made him an officer, and gave him a blimp. Submarine patrol out of Texas, and Central and South America. He loved to fly, and died in a small plane crash in 1968 at age 46. Whenever we saw a blimp flying around in Northern California in the 50s, 60s, it was probably my dad flying the dang thing.
Wow... TRUE! I haven't seen one in years!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 me either
Ive never seen one
@@Henrique-sp9gx Aww...well because you're not old like me. 😅
@@edyann well im 20 😂
@@Henrique-sp9gx A child. ☺
literally all i can think about while watching this: “at least he died doing what he loved, watching blimps”
great minds think alike. would a great mind like to go out on a date some time?
I'm so glad that I still have my collection of inflatable airships hanging up that I've had for about 27 years now. All 16 of them. I still have a picture of the ship and crew uniforms from way back when I was part of a ground crew team back in the mid 90's.
@@chirpycrow2061 that is very cool
"So what's up with blimps?" that sounded cute asf
Good one!
They were a Blimp in the History of Aviation .
I worked for Van Warner Airship Group. I went from crewman to light sign operator to hanger manager. I'm proud of myself 👏👏
For those who are familiar with the metric system:
At 2:49: "She will carry 50 passengers, a crew of 40, and 13.6 metric tons of mail."
At 2:55: "It was 245 meters long, making it the largest aircraft ever built."
At 3:06: "The Hindenburg's 200,000 cubic meters of hydrogen gas had ignited."
I didn't even think about that. It's been a minute!
The last time I saw a blimp was around 2012, I was 11 years old, I was outside riding my bike when I saw the blimp flying by, I started jumping and waving my hands at it, the blimp came to a sudden stop and turned toward me, I believe someone on the blimp saw me waving at it. That was the best memory I've had with encountering blimps.
Wow that’s crazy, I hope I will ever see one
omgg we have the same experience except i was on my sidewalk and it was ab 2010!!
@@wig9210 That's awesome !! I need to see another one it's been too long.
Airships are so romantic, and the new designs look so cool.
Finally, we have the answers to the questions so many have wondered
There are only 13 operational blimps left in the world. Seeing one is a super rare event these days. I’ve only ever seen one once in my lifetime
25
No stories about Gamestop posted this week lol CNBC is with the hedgefunds.
Search 'Gamestop CNBC'
It's not all a conspiracy. Get it together, man!
If you ever visit Germany, at Lake Constance (Bodensee, not far away from Switzerland) there is a huge museum about Zeppelin (Blimps). Furthermore you can book a flight.
When i was a kid in california my mom was able to get me onto the goodyear blimp! I even got to pilot it (under supervision lol)
Owen to. The Coca Cola blimp , pretty cool
@Zerevv Just because I flew a blimp you think I'm rich? 😅 you must be poor then
@Zerevv i live in texas lmfao
@Zerevv quit acting like you know me, you're making yourself look stupid.
When/where was that? Might have been my father piloting...
I have very found memories as a kid in the 80's, watching the Goodyear Blimp go over our house at night with it's electric sign on the side, and during the day, 'chasing' them with my friends on our bikes to watch them land (I lived near the Meadowlands and the airport used sometimes for landings)
Homer Simpson: Hey there Blimpy-boy, flyin' through the sky so merrily.
*Starts sobbing*
@@avinashtyagi2 it's okay, you got me bro
@@reconzero5699 😆
I live in Brazil and blimps never were very common here. I saw it only once, it was a beer-can-shaped blimp, huge.
in the late 90s and early 2005, Goodyear had blimps in Brazil, mainly in São Paulo.
I've never seen an airship in real life. I'd like that to change.
Really? I see them pretty often in SF, they have one you can even ride but it’s 850 dollars per person, and 10k for a private flight.
You must be like 15..
@@devenhodge7200 wym there about 25 blimps in existence it's not that strange that someone might not have seen one. I don't think we have any in Australia
I was fishing on Wingfoot Lake with my dad and one of his old retired work pals, and the blimp hangar door opened, and one of the Goodyear blimps came in to dock. Another time, I was driving up Route 43 with my mother, and all three active Goodyear blimps started circling the area for a big national tour. They'd swung by Wingfoot to pick up the third one for the convoy. I pulled into a car park, and we watched them for a while until they flew off for their next destination.
I haven’t seen blimps in such a long time.
The last time I saw a blimp was when I was playing at the park - now I’m 15, and haven’t ever seen one since :(
"When was the last time you saw a blimp."
Literally never seen a blimp in my 24.5 years :/
Really?
@@forrealforreal8723 Yup, Canada doesn’t really see much..
I literally saw the Goodyear blimp today lol. There’s a hanger near by in pompano here in Florida
Same I actually live nearby from it so I see it almost every day
The girl narrating this has a really nice voice, just sounds really relaxing to hear. She should narrate more UA-cam videos ( =
I was gonna say the opposite. Very annoying voice and you can hear the dryness in her throat and lips when she talks.
well thanks satan
Now that i look back at my 18 years of existence on this planet. I think I've never seen a blimp irl.
I'm 19 and saw one when i was 7 but i really wish we could see more
This is exactly what I was thinking after watching the latest episode of Attack on Titan.
😂😂😂
Same
The same reason why I searched for blimps on YT.
@@imtiaznawaz6367 same
It made me think of the HunterxHunter episode where they flew, it really looked magical. And now I've watched a Pokemon episode with it too. I wish I could see one in real life
riding on one of those is on my bucket list
"At least he died doing what he loved, watching blimps”
I see the Goodyear blimp at least once monthly here in Akron
Same. Since I’m so close to Downtown the blimp flies directly over my house all the time when it’s circling around Downtown.
Goodyear is based in Akron
Pandemic, economic collapse, and airships? It really is the 20s again
THE ROARING TWENTIES!
DAMN GOOD ONE
When I was a child i used to see the Goodyear blimp every once in a while in the sky and it was so exciting to me I haven’t seen one in in a long time and I’m in my 40s now.
There was a car wash when I was a kid that used a little blimp attached to the ground for signage
The intro: what’s up with blimps?
Me: exactly...
They blowed up! I’ve seen the Goodyear Blimp up close.
I grew up in Southern California. We had at least 3 blimps/zeppelins in our area at almost any given time
eren yeager: what?! why is everyone looking at me?
that would help fix the problem of transporting wind turbine blades because they are so larger.
I'm not the only one who thinks the Airbender looks.........THICCCCCCC
I was actually very lucky to see them many times. Spring, TX had a Good Year blimp base not far from Houston, TX. (My hometown) I'd see her in berth, or about to travel. The base is now the site of Home Depot + Super Target. LOL! MetLife Blimp was in Galveston, TX years ago along with Oscar Meyer WeinerMobile! I have both on vhs-c. I work by NRG Stadium. I showed the "young staff" the Good Year blimp. They were like 8 yr. old kids. LOL!
It might be possible to increase safety for hydrogen airship by building the outer layer with a similar structure as air mattresses but filled with Nitrogen gas at an overpressure of maybe 0.1 bar. The airship can then be filled with hydrogen that never will be in contact with air. For transport purposes, the airship can be remote controlled so no pilot need to take the risk of flying in a hydrogen filled airship.
In the summer they're still doing tourist trips here in Germany, not much has changed in the last 20 years...
Me, a Scandinavian: wait, yall have seen a blimp before?
I see them flying almost every day here in Germany 😁
I see them all the time in San Francisco. There’s one you can fly in for about 800 dollars
I really miss them 😢
Who's here before they hit one million views?
Evolution of UA-cam Ads.
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I usually enjoy these but this one has a very "talking to small children" feel
That would be so the trumpanzees can understand it.
Lightning strikes twice Man what the hell are you talking about. Give your head a shake
Thats very good ! The old inventions comeing back!!!
CNBC - “What Happened to Blimps?”
They want to be referred to as Airships
Alternatives for the safe use of hydrogen in an airship.
Fire proof cabin - (Maybe use some of those space shuttle tiles? )
Passenger cabin hung well below the airship attached by cables that could extend toward the ground in the event of a fire?
Upper hydrogen air bag separated by a Kevlar heat shield from a lower helium bag that could detach in the event of fire?
Make sure the cabin can float in case of water crash?
You want blimps?
There you go: Kirov Reporting.
I understand that the term 'blimp' came from a Royal Naval Air Service manual on airships in the First World War "...there are 2 types of airships: (a) rigid & (b) limp".
"There is no one who will not look up at a blimp in the sky. I don't think you could find a single person who wouldn't look up to see a blimp
Blind person: .......
I just saw a blimp the other night flying over downtown Los Angeles at night. It was beautiful and the bottom was lit up in blue.
How I wish I could see one in real life, let alone ride in it🙌🏽. Would give my good kidney for that.
Im in Akron where the huge Goodyear hangar is at and we see them pretty often, not as often nowadays but when I was little you’d hear this loud perpetual deep hum inside the house and you’d go out to see the Goodyear blimp pretty low to the ground flying by, they’re amazingly loud if you’ve ever been around them taking off
Who comes up with these topics!? Are they SuperChat request from subscribers? lol
I haven't seen the Goodyear blimp since the 80's. I enjoyed the video, and the narrator had a pleasant voice.
I hope Flying Whales is successful, seems like a great idea!
I knew one of the pilots of the MetLife Snoopy blimp. Kinda makes me a cool name dropper. She was a really good pilot!
When your so early that you don't know what to comment
Imagine someone from the 1930’s comes here today and sees that we are still working on airships. Probably would be bummed.
I live in ohio. So I've seen the Goodyear blimp about 2 years ago.
Great put together video
Last time I saw a Blimp was on Yuri’s Revenge
I had these as a toy when I was young :}
DAYUM you were rich
Helium is expensive!
It would be funny if they managed to crack Fusion power as then they would have to find something to do with all the Helium byproduct.
its a iconic marvel the video is good
They were taken away by giants and used as condoms
This is original and good.Got to give a like
@@goattier7728 I thought the exact same thing :P
I think giving more designs like the graf zeppelin that could hold dozens of passengers with dining halls, observation decks lounges, sleeping dormitories and bathrooms are all features zeppelins in the 30s had, now that would grab attention and it’s popularity would make it more mainstream and cheaper to ride on
Why do all the white male announcers from the mid 1900’s all sound the same 😂
mainly because the audio recording devices where really low quality and the american accent was a lot more thicker and distinct than what it is today
I miss seeing blimps. Those and sky writers were some of the coolest things to see. As a boy I was always looking up to see airplanes and helicopters also.
*Stock market crashes from redditors*
CNBC: What happend to Blimps?
I'm worked on one few year back in Elizabeth city, NC 600'X125'x65' it in storage somewhere.
The Subtext of this video is “ what can we talk about other than GameStop?”
I saw a good year in Tucson Az as.of last December I truly appreciated the sight
Person: blimps!
Everybody: huh?
Person: among us!
Everybody: huh?
Person: airship!
Everyone: OOOHHHHHH YAAAAAAAAA AIIIIIIIIRRRRSHIP LETS GOOOOOOOOO
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS. I love this page.
One of the great wonders of the world at one point lol. Bruv (or bruvette) if you’re reading this. Friendly reminder for y’all to check your bank account on a daily basis. The more often you check the less likely you are to overspend. Pocket watch yourself 🤧💯🙌🏾.
The radar blimp they had that got loose at the military base near me 😂
"What happened to blimps?" Wow, that sounds like fat shaming to me...
Yeah, especially when we just got an orange painted blimp out of the White House.
@@edwardk6764 And voted in a geriatric, demented puppet who is barely coherent most of the time, has no backbone and is turning America into some sort of neo-socialistic country that will answer to China, allow illegal immigrants in by the millions, put hundreds of thousands out of jobs, and completely rewrite or revise history rather than be a true leader for the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Yeahhhhhhh...
@@nathanwilliams4005 whatever man, he was just not as bad as the other guy...and all that stuff already happened under the last administration.
Plus I was just talking about blimps.
@@edwardk6764 Biden is garbage. 4 years of "unity" is about to ensue. 🙄 I made an attempt at humor and some how a liberal took that as grounds for making a political statement for whatever reason. Orange man bad! Anyway, take care fella. ✌
@@nathanwilliams4005 You should know by now lefties have no sense of humor,
All they know is derision and hate. They can dish it out but can't take it.
When was the last time anyone saw a blimp?
As a life-long resident of Akron, Ohio I regularly see blimps at least once a week, every week, in the Spring and Summer. I live just outside of Downtown so they fly directly over my house all the time.
Here in my city of Pompano Beach just about everyday due to the fact that I live near a blimp base. And it's Goodyear.