It must have taken a great deal of time, passion, and persevering effort to put this video together, from the detailed models and animations to everything else that must have gone on behind the scenes in order to transform these assets into the clear, concise, and fascinating video it came to be. It is so interesting to learn how old technology functions; the designs of our forebears often displayed a simple ingenuity and thoughtfulness as is clear in the design of this landing system. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this! All the best!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

It did indeed, and thanks to the exceptional skills of our member Stephan Niemeyer, he has really brought it to life.

Very ingenious, I am 81 and an airship fan but I never knew anything about this clever mooring technique. Cheers from Australia.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

So glad you liked it! Indeed it's part of the history which is often overlooked, but amazing technology

I am so grateful for this video. It feels like witnessing the whole process as a person in the 1930s. Beautifully done !

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

AFTER HAVING SEEN SO MUCH ABOUT THE HINDENBURG....IT'S REALLY NICE TO SEE ONE OF THE ENGLISH AIRSHIPS USING TODAY'S VISUAL EFFECTS TO MAKE IT SEEM REAL. THEY REALLY WERE BEAUTIFUL THINGS. IT'S A PITY MORE PEOPLE DON'T SEE YOUR VIDEO. WHAT A GIFT. THANKS. CHALON.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback and we really appreciate it.

Someone's spent a lot of time on this one - and it's very good !

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and certainly did. This is why we've been a bit quiet on the other content. Glad you like it and we'll aim to do more.

@mrb.5610

2 жыл бұрын

@@airshipheritagetrust1419 Are the winch buildings listed ? I always think thry would make the ideal 'British Airship Museum' site albeit a little off the beaten track - and of course, it would need a fair bit of £££ ....

@goldenager59

Жыл бұрын

@@mrb.5610 I've never been out of the USA myself, but I dare say such a museum might be the very thing to lure ME across the pond at last! 😉 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

One of the best videos about Airships/Dirigibles I've seen. Thank you for making it.❤

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure and hope to do more in the future.

A remarkable and imaginative realisation of a successful technology that is all but forgotten. I was particularly impressed by the wealth of detail and the use of today's actual landscape to add reality to the scene

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Fascinating. As a kid in the 1960s I had a copy of an ‘Every Boy’s Hobby Annual’ from the 1930s which contained a special supplement on airships, and cutaway diagrams of the mooring mast. My mum also recalled the R100 passing over Liverpool when she was a little girl. It’s great to see a modern animation of how all this would have worked. Hugo Eckner was also a rather unlikely hero of mine. As an old romantic I’ve long had a soft spot for the pre-WWII rigid airships and sometimes lament what might have been. They do seem rather improbable vehicles and terrifyingly dangerous, but nevertheless many of the accidents appear to have been caused by complacency and political pressure rather than any inherent faults with the aircraft themselves. Were anything like them around today I’d still chance my neck for a flight in one.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and glad you enjoyed it. We hope to do more like this and see inside how things worked. Checkout some of our new videos on Skyships.

@crazyleyland5106

2 ай бұрын

Helium made rigid airships a great deal safer, as it negated the risk of fire, but even then, one of the 4 American naval rigids broke up in midair, and 2 others came down in the sea. I don't know how the crews of the Akron and Macon would have fared if they'd come down on land

This is one of the best things I have seen in a very long time. I never knew how this was actually done and this video shows it all beautifully. Thanks so much.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you! We enjoy making it! It takes a lot of time but worth it sharing the knowledge

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

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much indeed!

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

20 күн 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.

I love all the little details I couldn't have predicted, like the winch room in the nose, or how the weights roll with the ship. Keep it up! Cheers from PA!

@stephann8452

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! The winch room in the nose is a reconstruction how it could have looked like. Unfortunately, we haven't found any pictures yet which would give us more details

Excellent presentation, brilliant graphics and perfectly explained. This is a fine example of how to use modern graphics to bring history to life. Thank you.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Wow fantasic graphics to show in detail how it was done. It really was an engineering marvel.

This is a brilliant video - well done! How about a follow up video about how they were planning on doing this sort of thing for mooring to the Empire State Building?

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We appreciate the feedback. We've a list of things we want to work on so we'll add it to the list.

@njcurmudgeon

11 ай бұрын

I know I am late to the party, but I wanted to mention that the idea of airships mooring to the Empire State Building was more of a promotional "stunt" than anything seriously considered. Watching this excellent video shows why it was never practical - the building was (and, of course still is) surrounded by other buildings. There was no place for the yaw guide lines, let along the garden rollers. That said, a privately-owned dirigible did dock in September of 1931, but only for three minutes. The photo of the dirigible Los Angeles docked to the building was a pre-Photoshop fake in 1930. The idea of securely docking an airship was never going to be workable, but it gave Alfred E. Smith, the leader of a group of investors behind the construction, an excuse for the additional 200 feet of iconic tower!

@foowashere

11 ай бұрын

@@njcurmudgeonexcellent observations, thanks for taking the time to comment. :)

@crazyleyland5106

2 ай бұрын

​@@njcurmudgeonit was also extremely windy up there, so high off the ground.

I have always been fascinated by airships. Some years ago, driving from southern Bavaria I chose the road to the north of Lake Constance and stopped off at Friedrichshaven to visit the Zeppelin museum there. It contains many interesting items, but the highlight is the mock up of the passengers quarters of the Hindenburg. It was well worth the visit and detour it entailed. This is a super video. Thanks!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've been there a number of times now and, indeed, it's fantastic and worth the visit. We hope this video also brings airships alive for people.

Thanks for the tutorial. I’ve been floating around for a couple years, now I can see my family again

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

When I am returning from secret missions, I instruct my bio-mechanical lobster-clawed man-servant to lash my private airship to the weather-vanes of light houses! Saying that, I think this might have been a dream? 🤔 Hang on a minute, the nurse is coming.

This is absolutely amazing! I love your content! Cant wait for more!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! we're working on it!

@Alexius01

2 жыл бұрын

@@airshipheritagetrust1419 have you ever considered of also doing the german or US airships?

Can't add anything more to the comments praising this great video, just wanted to say that this landing system is indeed more efficient and less labor intensive that German one of the same era. Probably that's why landing via mooring mast was chosen for the ongoing Pathfinder airship project.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Glad you found it relates to some of the modern ideas and concepts as well.

It was a great dream that Lord Thomson had; such a shame it came to grief. If I were allowed a single trip back through time, I should probably use it to be a passenger in the R-100's round-trip flight. Bravo to Master Niemeyer and all who assisted. ☁️ ⛅ 😉 ☁️

@stephann8452

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Been interested in airships since I was about 5years old I am now nearly 66 years old my late mum watch the R101 fly over her parents house in South London the size the majestic site of the ship was fantastic I remember my mum say all her neighbours were out watching on thing she was so facanted about was see passengers waving out of the windows of the ship plus she heard the on board piano being played, I was lucky to fly on a small non ridged ABC 60 plus airship down near were I live at Shoreham airport in Sussex in 2001 it was a pleasure to fly in a modern small airship let's hope the airlander10/50 and modern day Zeppelin build bigger and better craft ,loved watching this video very interesting, peter

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

How wonderful! Glad you got to experience some Lighter than air travel!

@ddegn

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your stories. I really enjoyed reading your comment.

As others have commented - this was wonderful to watch!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you liked it We'll try to do more as time permits.

This is another amazing video from The Airship Heritage Trust. I cannot thank you enough. Wow, the animation shows so clearly what I’ve read about for so long, and tried to visualise. And thanks too, for using R100 as the model. She’s almost as special to me personally as the R101 but it would be too harrowing to see the beautiful R101 docking, as she should have done at Ismailia in 1930. Just a glimpse of her was perfect. Brilliant. 👏👏👏

@PeterMatthess

Жыл бұрын

I'm looking into the history of this, what was the reason they docked at Ismailia rather than say, Cairo? Was the British Empire's reason because they had more infrastructure there or perhaps it was more geo-politically ideal?

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! We enjoy making and researching them, and trying to fill in the gaps in things which you can't see or find out on the internet about airships. Check out some of our new ones in the next few weeks

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

HI Peter, from what we believe, it was half way down the Suez canal at an existing known town with the right logistics. I think that Cairo was already quite built up at the time, and also being on the Suez canal will link up quickly with communications of the day by boat or water to Port Said or Suez, and a steamer to other countries.

@PeterMatthess

Жыл бұрын

@@airshipheritagetrust1419 hi, thanks for the info. That makes logical sense. Coincidentally I drove past the sheds for the first time today and marvelled at their size!! I yearned for a peak inside shed 1 but as far as I could see there’s no ability to visit the inside of a shed and there’s no official physical museum to view things at yet. I’m glad at least you folks are doing these videos. I’m actually researching British airships a lot as I’m thinking of writing some historical fiction on the subject. If ever there’s the ability to get a view of the inside of a shed I’d love to do that! I live up in Durham though so not exactly local. Regards, Peter

@kiwitrainguy

11 ай бұрын

@@PeterMatthess I saw the inside of one of those sheds in 1987. The other one was off limits.

More vids like this please. I love blimps and more they're hidden history. Thanx sooo much

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 ай бұрын

Thank you and yes we'll be doing more for the channel.

This answered so many questions I had, thank you! Absolutely beautiful renderings!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, and yes often how they moored the airships confuses many. It's an amazing technology for it's time.

This is simply wonderful. Many many thanks.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

Excellent series of videos, thank you.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Ай бұрын

Thank you very muchi and more to come!

I love this video! I have always been fascinated by airships! What a pity, with today's technology these wonderful floating beasts haven't made a comeback!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! You may find that with the demands for environmental flying, that airships could make a comeback. There are a couple of projects at the moment based on bringing back larger airships. Watch this space, in the next couple of years you'll see them take to the skies.

Superbly produced and informative, well done.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

3 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly! Glad you liked it

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

20 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful! and glad you enjoyed it.

Absolutely brilliant to gather all this information and present it in such detail. Excellent job to the people that put this together. Your passion and dedication really show.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it

Ah the brave new world of the era with it's air ships, ocean liners, sky scrapers and other tech made possible with steel. What an amazing time.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Certainly was !

A wonderfully presented piece of work. Congratulations to everyone who worked on producing this.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! and glad you enjoy it! Took AGES but well worth it in the end.

@hilman94

2 жыл бұрын

@@airshipheritagetrust1419 very worth it.... I thought it's just another "narrator reads transcript" video, but instead, I'm amazed with how much detailed the animation, and even I find it hard to distinguish between the animated screen and colorized images... (or actually, no colorized images at all?)

Very interesting & excitant graphics too👍🏻

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

Hauntingly beautiful images even like this.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ddegn

3 ай бұрын

Agreed. *Hauntingly beautiful* is a great description. The video left me with my eyes tearing up.

facinating! really interesting visual guide. It would be very hard to find all this information independantly. Thanks!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very thorough! Great video

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Lovely piece of work! I can appreciate the skill that went into this.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

i realy like rigid airships and this video had me learn alot

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you did and we hope to add more!

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

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Quite an entertaining and rather informative video about early airship mooring practices and procedures! Thank you for producing and posting!! :) :) :) :)

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

This is crazy history. Bet the tech could be vastly improved if they kept making air ships.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, with the plans for more masts, and a second at Cardington, who knows what the world would have been like.

FANTASTIC VIDEO 😍

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🤗

It is almost like docking a floating ship in the harbor. Hopefully the airship travel returns in the future

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

That's right - airships could be seen more like ships than aircraft with their tecniques being more nautical in behaviour. There are a few airship projects on the go at the moment and we'll see how they manage mooring and docking

Visually stunning and a very clear explanation - thank you!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Ай бұрын

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

Quite a detailed explanation of how they did this.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

This is a great video. Could you please do a video on the German and American mooring methods? I’d love to see and understand how those methods worked.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion! We've got a list but we'll add it to it!

@stephann8452

Жыл бұрын

The mooring procedure for US „Zeppelins“ and as far as I know for the Hindenburg LZ129 is well explained in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pK5_rNOxnpSniMo.html

I wish zeppelin travel had been possible during my lifetime!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

20 күн бұрын

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

Fantastic video! Great graphics, really helps you understand how they ships were landed/docked. And how they looked when they were in the air. Again, great video, looks very realistic. Found your channel after reading His Majesty's Airship and looking to learn more about R100 & R101.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! and to get more details of the ships. We'll be doing more videos shortly

Fascinating. A brilliant and ingenious method, sadly under-utilised because of the change of attitude to airships following the R101 crash. If only it had been the R100 heading for India, it might have changed history. .

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Indeed - who knows what would have happened? Glad you liked the video, we hope to add more, soon.

What a fantastic video. A couple of days before this appeared in my KZread feed I was listening to the 'Hidden Hindenburg' podcast and asked my husband how did we moor the likes of the R100 and the R101 on the high masts? How serendipitous.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

So detailed and the animations are amazing. This channel will definitely grow well. I know it’s cliche but can you consider a video on the zeppelins? Graf and Hindenburg. The interiors are interesting but maybe also a mention on schedules and the theoretical mast docking thing at the Empire State Building?

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion!

Perfect explanation! Would you show us more info about the ww1 airships? How did they landed before this mooring tower? Did they thought about the danger of electric sparks during mooring?

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

We'll add it to the list... we have a lot of other lighter than air subjects to cover but we'll try our best!

Amazing video. The video produced very strong positive emotions in me. *It was beautiful!* Thank you very much.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

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

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.

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

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you

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

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

@airshipheritagetrust1419

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.

Thanks for keeping alive this fleeting flash of history.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure.

Beautifully done !

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

That was extremely interesting

@airshipheritagetrust1419

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! We're aiming to add more content in 2024 and covering the history of airships not covered elsewere.

Great video. Thank you.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Can't help but think of the mark that one of these bad boys would have left on those witnessing it for the first time. They must have thought that " this is the pinnacle of civilization ". Super envious on those being part of the ground crew.

@goldenager59

Жыл бұрын

Agreed (only they'd probably be more likely to spell it 'civilisation')! 🤭

@rusu989

Жыл бұрын

@@goldenager59 agreed, bwahahaha

@goldenager59

Жыл бұрын

@@rusu989 😉

Thank you for these visualizations! I've just listened to an account of the fatal flight of the R-101. It's great to be able tosee what the author is describing in such vivid detail. I really enjoyed this video and I imagine I'll probably watch it a few more times.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

9 ай бұрын

So glad we were able to put in to pictures what you read in the books.

I'm surprised this doesn't have many more views... Fantastic and interesting video! Thanks for posting!!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! and we're working on more. If you enjyed it, checkout the Skyship series

Fascinating. Thank you!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

17 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it , thank you

Very interesting

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Superb animation - what happens to the yaw lines if the airship rotates due to wind direction. Presumably, if necessary they could be disconnected and teh rollers relied on.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, the yaw wires main aim is to secure the nose, but the ship could rotate around the mast, The rollers had two jobs, one to try and keep the hull and tail from lifting too much, and also providing some moving achor points to slow any sudden change in wind direction. Airships were always "flown" when on the mast and not on the ground, unlike heavier than air planes which can be left.

This is a great video!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! More to come soon.

Bravo… excellent!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

9 ай бұрын

thank you

I'm trying to figure out why the yaw ropes are required at all - seems like they would prevent the airship from swiveling in the wind, which defeats some of the main functionality of the mooring tower.

@DavidOfWhitehills

2 жыл бұрын

They're maybe removed after mooring. Only required to prevent the ship hunting to either side and messing with the pulling down. The classic airship shape is aerodynamically unstable, it would jaw wildly without constant attentive, even aggressive, helming.

@DavidOfWhitehills

2 жыл бұрын

For jaw read yaw. A most illuminating video, I thank you for it.

Excellent video really well done and explained.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Very nice work covering “Lighter Than Air” Thank you…a NEW subscriber 👍🏻

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you! We hope to be adding more soon!

Very interesting, and extremely well put together

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! Thanks for letting us know.

Thanks for a fascinating presentation!!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I love these videos!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you - we hope to bring you more soon

This is a brilliant explanation of the process. I wonder how long it took in real time.

@stephann8452

9 ай бұрын

According to Capt. Meager‘s book „My airship flight“, page 155, it took around 30 minutes from dropping the rope to securing the cone at the mast. I would guess it took about 45 minutes for the whole procedure.

@robjchristopher

9 ай бұрын

@@stephann8452 thank-you - quite the process!

That tower that King Kong climbed atop the Empire State Building was -- an airship mooring mast.

had to subscribe to your channel as i hope airships of all types take off and you have content to keep making

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! and we'll be adding more!

Thanks for posting this informative video!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Our pleasure

-- Nicely done!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

7 ай бұрын

Thanks very much indeed!

SO FASCINATING! THANK YOU!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

amazing job !

@airshipheritagetrust1419

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

This is fascinating! Thank you! 😁😲

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! We love producing these videos, and as you can imagine, they take some time, but hope they can explain some of the details often overlooked.

Great documentary

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We loved making it and hope you found it interesting. More to come when we have the time

So cool!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Fantastic

@airshipheritagetrust1419

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

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

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Ай бұрын

I know! Maybe oneday.

Awesome engineering..!

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

I would like to see how an airship coped with en route storms

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Often airships would try to avoid storms and navigate around them as much as they could with the meterological information they had gained.

Very interesting and complex. Seems like the cone should be stronger braced.

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Despite it's seeminly fragility the nose cone was strong enough to hold the ship's weight in the wind. The R101 withstood an 80mph wind whislt moored by it's nosecone on the mast.

Cool animation

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

I wonder how the Hindenburg's landing line process was different from this! Maybe you could do a second animation on that?

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

The British mastered the High Mast process, and the Germans went for a low stub mast. The only disadvantage of that was the amount of ground crew needed. As you can see, with a high mast, you can secure the ship with as little as 20 people

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Terrific .. do you have a video about weather and docking? How does Weather affect the ship at dock? How does a “sail” of this size behave in a thunderstorm?

@ddegn

3 ай бұрын

I imagine they would have to bring the airship into a hanger if there were a thunderstorm in the area. Thunderstorms will rip apart most aircraft even when the aircraft are much sturdier than a dirigible.

Many thanks! Did they use the traditional men on ropes method to lower it to the ground for guiding into the hanger?

@airshipheritagetrust1419

Жыл бұрын

Good question! The ship would uncouple itself and then just be ballasted carefully (weighted) to gently decend to the ground, then walked to the sheds.

Hola puede hacer todos tu videos con la opción de subtitulo en español por favor para disfrutar mejor tu contenido

Kirov reporting!

This is so fantastic - what a incredible job. I've been losing my mind trying to find a bit of info, which is how long did the landing process take?

@stephann8452

Жыл бұрын

In his book „My Airship Flights“ on page 155, Capt. Meager mentions a duration of about 30 minutes from dropping the mooring wires until securing the cone at the mast. I would roughly estimate 45 min in total. Just a guess.

@jpiccone1

Жыл бұрын

@@stephann8452 Wow, thanks for that!

@stephann8452

Жыл бұрын

@@jpiccone1 Pleasure! The book may still be available. I purchased a copy only recently

@ddegn

3 ай бұрын

@@stephann8452 I add my thanks for the information you provided.