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@valkeryie5650

3 ай бұрын

Please get another voice. This guy is everywhere. Not a fan of his grating voice. Sorry, not

@maxwellblackwell5045

2 ай бұрын

Please get a better S filter, my guy. Or edit out the high pitch.

@valkeryie5650

2 ай бұрын

@@maxwellblackwell5045 or not watch 😀

Sky pirates? Hell yeah! We badly need a remake of the classic game Crimson Skies!!

@mattparkent440

3 ай бұрын

Or more games about Sky Pirates. I love 3d movement, but wish there were more games with it that were neither in space or underwater.

@Batmanderp38

3 ай бұрын

God I loved that game growing up such good memories

@jamesleatherwood5125

3 ай бұрын

YESSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! NONE OF THE OLD GAMES WORK ON MODERN CONSOLES OR PCS!!!!!!! *cries and cries and cries* I though it was great alternate history game!

@MisterOcclusion

3 ай бұрын

I remember being able to take a hex editor to the save file and load out your plane with everything…

@timsheehan6954

3 ай бұрын

It's on gamepass

Sea Pirates: exist Land Pirates: exist Aerial Pirates: once exist Space Pirates: in progress

@Jayjay-qe6um

3 ай бұрын

In 2019, American entrepreneur Nova Spivack declared he was the "first space pirate" for smuggling tartigrades to the Moon on board Arch Mission Foundation lander without informing the Israeli launch company SpaceIL. Items have been taken into space without permission since the mid 1960s.

@usonumabeach300

3 ай бұрын

Smuggling isn't piracy. Piracy is theft of goods

@merafirewing6591

2 ай бұрын

​@@usonumabeach300 yet authorities treat both as the same.

@AmbroseBoaBowie

2 ай бұрын

Only a matter of time

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx

2 ай бұрын

🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

To quote The History Guy, "Don't all good stories involve pirates?"

@seandobson499

2 ай бұрын

Great channell and without the idiotic comments Karl Smallbrain makes on 'Biographics'

@stevecastro1325

Ай бұрын

Of course!

@riftvallance2087

Ай бұрын

Well, the inclusion of a pirate never made a story worse.

@isaacshaver6218

Ай бұрын

Love that channel no. 5

German Historian here (Working for the IFZ in Munich mostly. As much as i do enjoy a lot of Simons Content i must applaud him for posting this rather unknown Incident on the "Today I Found Out" Channel. Surprised me massively. Simon and of course the whole Team doing the Research etc. for him do have an insane amount of Variety and as a Historian i often check Videos of his Channel and go "Nice! He's covering something lesser known compared to 99% of all the other History-related Channels!" Now Simon and his Team only have to make a Video on the following 2 very overlooked but worth-telling Stories of these two German Personalities which both to this Day are still respected by the American and especially British Military (and their Stories taught in Military Academy): - Felix von Luckner (aka "The Sea Devil" (german: Seeteufel)) of World War I who has also been called "The Emperors Pirate" by British Historians who because of his Actions was even praised by the British a few Years after WWI - Günther Prien (aka "The Bull of Scapa Flow (german: Der Bulle von Scapa Flow)) of World War 2 who with his U-Boat did something so ballsy early on in WW2 against British Ships in Scapa Flow that also right after WW2 a ton of British Veterans and Historians praised him and wrote Books about him (Think Rommel but U-Boat). Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps and keep up the great Work

@ferretyluv

2 ай бұрын

We know about Scapa Flow because it’s where we get our pre-atomic metal to make X-ray machines and Geiger counters.

@zzeegermantube

2 ай бұрын

He's done Günther Prien: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4iWlquqYczddLw.html

@maxwellblackwell5045

2 ай бұрын

When people say "as much as i enjoy this" they are following it up with a negative comment. You cant use it the way you did. "As much as i" is like a prefix. Its letting a person know that whatever your about to say will be followed by the opposite feelings. As much as i love chocolate, i hate being fat. As much as i hate to exercise, i really like being in shape.

@jimmylight4866

2 ай бұрын

@@ferretyluv😂Yes, lots of pre-atomic steel.

@Rynewulf

2 ай бұрын

Why would you thank Simon? He's a presenter, he's the human text to speech for dozens of channels (not all of which bother to check facts at all)

Considering it was during a war and the ship was considered a "valid war prize" wouldn't they technically be considered "privateers" instead of pirates, or would they need official sanction to perform the actions for them to be considered privateers?

@westrim

3 ай бұрын

For most purposes, privateers are just state sanctioned pirates. A subgroup, not a different thing altogether.

@faroncobb6040

3 ай бұрын

Privateers are irregular forces authorized by a government to act on their behalf. What the Germans were doing was commerce raiding, which is different from both privateering and piracy.

@carloshenriquezimmer7543

3 ай бұрын

Both options are not valid. Real pirates were criminals, without any rigths to atack and capture vessels. They were hunted dowm by everione, captures any number os ships from any nation they could. Everibody was theyr enemies. Privateers were private enterprises (hence the naming convention), but authorized by a "Letter of Mark and Reprimendum", that allowed them to capture shipsfrom specific nations, to hunt pirates, to use port facilities from theyr sponsor nation and so on. Both ships and crews were hired by the boss, very ofthen the captain himself. Those airships and crews were from the German Navy, so, served the nation's military. Hence, not criminals, nor a private enterprise, so, not pirates, nor privateers.

@dilligafco.official9887

3 ай бұрын

@@carloshenriquezimmer7543wouldn’t most governments be considered a private enterprise since they don’t have a direct stock and are recognized as businesses and banks?

@dilligafco.official9887

3 ай бұрын

@@carloshenriquezimmer7543great info tho, just curious.

I think the Houthi capture of that ship via helicopter would count as sky piracy

@hillbilly4895

3 ай бұрын

"Dirka Dirka Mohammad jihad!" ~ Houthi Sky Pirates

@moreirdan

2 ай бұрын

Good point, but the Houthis are almost nation state actors

@akumabito2008

2 ай бұрын

@@hillbilly4895 [secret panic signal intensifies]

I watched Talespin, I know there are more flying pirates than just these guys

@raeraebadfingers

3 ай бұрын

Friends for life through thick and thin with another tale to spin!

@kennethferland5579

3 ай бұрын

It is I Don Karnage! ha ha... you may grovel for your lives now.

@vividthespis

3 ай бұрын

Oh wee oh! oh we oh! Oooh oooh. Another tailspin :-D

@donkfail1

2 ай бұрын

And a few Studio Ghibli movies confirm this.

@mikemcghin5394

2 ай бұрын

They actually existed I be dam

Important to point out that the Zeppelin base at that time was in Germany, those islands became Danish in 1920.

@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

2 ай бұрын

Perfidious denmark

@riccardodececco4404

2 ай бұрын

@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 well, in fact it was the only territory annexed from Germany after 1918 that was passed due to a referendum....

@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

2 ай бұрын

@@riccardodececco4404 excuses for perfidious actions.. Kick a man when hes down and a few years later you are surprised by a big ol kick..

Nice to see somebody finally picking up this story^^ It's a good one. Another fun fact about the privacy incident is that the bulk of the airship was used to block the wind behind the sailship, leaving it dead in the water. A truly bizarre interaction of vessels. On another note, the German commanders were well aware of how ineffective those raids were. They continued anyway because they were binding considerable allied resources in the UK.

With a crew of drunken pilots We're the only airship pirates! We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise We're the terror of the skies and a danger to ourselves now

@GraveyardRomance

3 ай бұрын

The only thing i could hear in my head this entire time 😂

@carloshenriquezimmer7543

3 ай бұрын

5:04 That would be something to sing a song about it afterwards.

@MadHatter42

3 ай бұрын

So glad to see fellow Abney Park fans in the wild!

@backwashjoe7864

3 ай бұрын

You can tell that they are true drunken airship pirates by the loss of their rhyming scheme! :)

@loke6664

2 ай бұрын

@@backwashjoe7864 You kinda have to hear the entire song. It links the verses so the entire chorus doesn't rhyme but the song does when you hear it in it's entirety. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ho6mypien9Lfoso.html But sure, Abney park have a pretty unique style.

Nathan zackary manning the zeppelin gypsy magic with the fortune hunters... what a game crimson skies was

"A crew of drunken pilots! We're the only airship pirates!"

@riftvallance2087

Ай бұрын

We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves.

@NClark-lp3bq

Ай бұрын

@@riftvallance2087 Was looking for this comment chain!🤣

@riftvallance2087

Ай бұрын

@@NClark-lp3bq Because you have exceptional taste.

Not the only case - and that was a legitimate war prize. The *real* sky pirates are the Houthi pirates who seized a car carrier, the Galaxy Leader, in November last year after boarding it by helicopter.

@bryanfreeman437

2 ай бұрын

De är tunga.

@awmperry

2 ай бұрын

@@bryanfreeman437 De har onekligen en tung effekt på världens logistikkedja... om det är det du menar.

@bryanfreeman437

2 ай бұрын

@@awmperry Jag menar att alla som bekämpar ZOG har min respekt. Bor i ett land som inte har importbehov i matväg oavsett.

Gives a whole new meaning to Captain Jack "Sparrow"!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@CidFafner

2 ай бұрын

Talking about Cpt. Led Zeppelin maybe

There is the Airborn series, a series of novels which play in a world where airships provide for the entire air travel. There is in one book also a raid by airship pirates. When I was a teenager, I really loved these books.

@valentinmitterbauer4196

2 ай бұрын

I read Oppel early in my teens, however it took me quite a while to figure out that "Airborne" is in fact the title of the first book, because in my translated version, the title is "Panther of the Clouds", which is, in my humble opinion, a way more intruiging name.

I wish anyone makes any Sci-fi Steampunk/Dieselpunk Genre About Sky Pirates with Airplanes and Airships like Crimson Skies or Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow. But Hollywood just won’t give it a shot.

@taylorbunch7825

2 ай бұрын

Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow

@BeebopConnard

2 ай бұрын

Here I am still playing crimson skies on my old windows XP laptop because war thunder is just not zeppelin enough .

@mechadonia

2 ай бұрын

There used to be an old source game like that I forget what it’s called

@Aethercell

2 ай бұрын

You should check out Mortal Engines… they gave it a pretty good try there

@ohman1247

2 ай бұрын

Not really aligned with these genres but Porco Rosso maybe?

Despite this entire video, nobody explained WHY they were abandoning a perfectly functional ship.

@FerrariusChristi

Ай бұрын

They saw the zeppelin and thought it was about to shoot them down... It's rather simple

I think the record for the longest flight by a military airship is held by the US Navy when the 'Snow Bird' flew 9,448 miles over a period of 11 days in its' double crossing of the Atlantic in 1957. The flight was non-stop and un-refueled.

I was introduced to the concept of sky pirates by Final Fantasy XII. I'm glad to know there eas at least one single historical case irl.

@kuronoch.1441

2 ай бұрын

As for me, I got that same concept from watching Elemental Gelade. Though the MC was only one in the first and last episodes.

As a modern day airship crewman. I approve of this

@arcadiaberger9204

2 ай бұрын

I can't believe no-one has picked up a line like, "As a modern day airship crewman" . . . . Goodyear? Fuji? Soeone else? In a middle school class, one of my kids wrote a proposal for an airship tourism cruise line to visit the Oregon coast from cities in our Willamette Valley, concluding it wouldn't (quite) be viable. His prospectus was really nice-looking, though.

@kevinmurphy5878

2 ай бұрын

Have you heard about Sergey Brins airship project?

@invaderraven1

2 ай бұрын

@kevinmurphy5878 yes I have it seems pretty neat. Hopefully it Flys later this year.

@invaderraven1

2 ай бұрын

@arcadiaberger9204 I was snoopy, direct TV , carnival cruise, plus a bunch of other short term contracts.

@arcadiaberger9204

2 ай бұрын

@@invaderraven1 High five! Very, VERY high!

I need a sky pirate shanty now.

@GraveyardRomance

3 ай бұрын

Have you heard of the band named Abney Park? They have airship pirate songs. Including one called Airship Pirates.

@oliviawolcott8351

3 ай бұрын

@@GraveyardRomance no, but I'll check them out.

@MystRunner916

2 ай бұрын

​@@GraveyardRomance Abney Park was the first thing i thought of with this title.

"You claim yourself a sky pirate, but I see no wings." Ramza Beoulve, FFT War of the Lions

Simon had me at Sky Pirates

And quite a few of those navy zeppelins were based near a small town in northern germany, called Wittmund. Which is crazy considering wittmund at the time was like a 10k population city at most? It was just barely above the threshhold for a village to become a town.

Laputa: Castle on the sky came to my mind instantly when i read the title, my all time favourite movie!

@tedoramone

2 ай бұрын

Me too! Miyazaki was very into aviation themes. And Castle in the sky was definitely “Sky Pirates” themed.

There's a fitting song for this. Abney Park "Airship Pirate"

@arcadiaberger9204

2 ай бұрын

Fires high and the airbags tight, Foods low but the skies are bright Props spinning all through the night, We're low on cash but we've seen another target Goggles down, and the cannons up My blood starts pumping as I drain my cup I give the wheel a spin and I turn this girl around, We're way above ground but we're closing on our target! Flying Jib is filled with air East India ships filled with despair, We even up, her broadsides bare Our cannons flair but it's just a show of muscle Steady on, she doesn't need to burn She tries to flee, and she tries to turn Grappling fire, we grab her hull We're starting to roll, but we've got her on a leash! With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates! We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates! We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now Expendable crew starts to reel her in Our swords are sharpened and we're ready to sin I'm three miles up, we're about to swing aboard My tethers made of leather so I'm not about to fall here A swish of air and my boots hit deck No cash, no fuel, no - not a speck! Grape shots made this bird a wreck And a glance below deck shows a crew of nuns and orphans! With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates! We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates! We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates! We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates! We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now -- Robert Brown

@brentkeller3826

2 ай бұрын

@@arcadiaberger9204 That's the one.

I remember reading this book called "Airborn," one of the main plot points was airship pirates

I'm surprised I've never heard about this before. I've tried to learn it all, but there seems to be no end to history.

@hekatoncheiros208

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, there’s more history happening all the time.

"With crew of drunken pilots, We're the only airship pirates! Well we're full of hot air and we're startin' to rise; We're the terror of the skies and a danger to ourselves, now..." ~"Airship Priates", by Abney Park

@jwaller1327

2 ай бұрын

Abney Park sent me here. First thing I thought of when I saw the thumbnail.

Crimson Skies, Sky Captain, and Airship Kingdoms Adrift came to mind immediately

A really interesting story, it could be straight out of an adventure film. I knew a guy (old boy as they say in Norfolk) who lived in King`s Lynn and remembered the Zeppelin raids on King`s Lynn when he was a very young boy. He saw them flying over the town and dropping bombs. Thank you for making this video.

Man, rigid airships need to make a comeback

I want more stories where you say “aluminium.”

@Nanocosm

3 ай бұрын

How does his tongue form such a sequence of syllables? Incredible.

@Steve-GM0HUU

2 ай бұрын

Only US dirigibles were constructed using Aloomnumb. 😂

@Kieselmeister

2 ай бұрын

​@@Steve-GM0HUUironically the USA's airships used Duralumin (tm) alloy.

@Steve-GM0HUU

2 ай бұрын

@@Kieselmeister OK, noted thanks and apologies.

damn, I was hoping they would raid another zeppelin

Im ready for Space Pirates...

@user-md2zp5xb8i

2 ай бұрын

Definitely, that's how I played the game Darkstar One, professional space Pirate and drug smuggling were always my favourite alignment even though I tried it all once, being a normal trader can be very profitable, but nowhere near as fun 😂

Although Tønder is today in Denmark, the town only became part of Denmark in 1920, when the northern part of Schleswig became part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Until then, Tønder had been part of the Duchy of Schleswig, which in 1864 was conquered by Prussia and thereby became part of the German Empire. So during the First World War it would be more correct to say that Tønder was located in Schleswig-Holstein or Germany.

I am stunned by this story. Simply fascinating stuff. Thank you for sharing

Sky pirates operating an airship. I am surprised Jules Verne, as to my knowledge, didn't write a story on this topic. 😅

wont lie. the thumbnail looked like simon pointing at half a peanut in an old photo for a second, lol

"Warlords of the air" is a great zeppelin fantasy classic.

Are you telling me that Don Karnage probably wasn't based on a real person?!

@CraftyVegan

3 ай бұрын

Awe…. Now Im sad… I miss Talespin

I wish there was a way to put all of Simon's channels into their own separate notifications Playlist so that I could just go into KZread and hit play all and it would just automatically play all of the most recent uploads from every channel of his... it's so tedious to sift thru my notifications for all his channels uploads... especially if I miss an upload day..

Well a Zeppelin taking out a sailing ship definitely sounds anachronistic. As does the early 1920s event where the Brits sent the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes out pirate hunting in China. So yes aircraft carrier vs sailing pirates is something that sounds very anachronistic that happened

I live in Cologne Ossendorf. Here the imperial German military and Peter Strasser, did research and did operate the Zeppelin fleet against Belgium, France and Great Britain targets.

That beauty regimen must be working. I had to do a double take to make sure this wasn’t pre-pandemic Simon 👀

This is just amazing! I'll have to show it to my son tomorrow, he is a big fan of pirates

Simon should do a medieval history channel, european, english history is what he's good at and it would go down well.

Fun fact: under international law hijacking is classified at air piracy so technically sky piracy never really ended

Prone to bursting into flames? Not really. You had to treat them pretty badly for that to occur, with the possible exception of Hindenburg

@tedoramone

2 ай бұрын

Actually the Hindenburg was deliberately sabotaged. However the result was so horrific it effectively doomed the airship concept in a single incident

@riftvallance2087

Ай бұрын

​@@tedoramoneGlad someone brought this up. The sabotage though may have been done with the intention of taking down the airship business. You can thank that for why sky cruises aren't a thing today

I need to play Skies of Arcadia.

This would make a really cool short story movie or something with the main scene being the sky piracy

I love this History, I never knew? THANK YOU!

Love your content 😊😊😊

Love the channel. Would be curious about Gestational Diabetes (Type III Diabetes). Apparently an extremely rare and not understood form of diabetes, Type 1 & 2 being almost the entire diabetic population. Very curious if you have the opportunity to explain!

The moment Porco Rosso was waiting

I'd like to find out how many channels you have. It seems like every video of yours that shows in my feed is listed under a different channel.

The real life Toppat Clan!

The Talespin fan of my young days is taking heart

Please do a video on the A4 Skyhawk. There's no good videos on here bout them, despite them being the most iconic jet of Vietnam.

I imagine those Norwegian sailors were terrified and also very very confused.

May be fifteen years ago, i visited the castle of a descendant of Graf von Zeppelin during a historical tour. The descendant has now the name von Brandenstein- Zeppelin. In his castle he could show us a handfull relicts from an airship.

This reminds me of the story Airbourne! I bet the story takes inspiration from the Sky Pirates of Air ships! Highly recommend it!

Thanks for the lesson. Cheers

A PvP based, airship combat game focus on teamwork and cooperation between specific rolls called "Guns of Icarus"

please tell there arch nemeisis was a guy named baloo,because that would make my day.

Wonderful story of the time and life of a turn of the century adventure. Dreams of future past

🎉🎉 who needs a Valentine when you got Sky Pirates and starfish

Other reasons for the use of Zeppelins by the Navy where there greater range making them better suited for operations over open water and there vulnerability to land based fighters

"just one second sarge i need to find an eye patch" ;)

this was truly a bad ass story love learning new facts

Fun fact, the two most famous zeppelins are, the Hindenburg & Led Zeppelin! The wound with the most impact to the world is Led Zeppelin and it’s also the most Metal AF \m/

Wonderful story 🙏🙏🙏 thanks

Enormous airships helped to build the pyramids of Giza, the Lighthouse of Alexandra, and The Colossus.

I got the Sony wf1000xm5 (again, cool name Sony ... ) And they're absolutely incredible. I use them with the hi res tidal subscription and they sound amazing. Also, I don't even realize I have them in my ear. So comfortable. Highly recommend

When General von Lettow-Vorbeck arrived in east Africa in 1914, he was on the same liner as Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), author of 'Out of Africa.'

so tailspin creators took some inspiration from a real group of sky pirates from ww1 who also used a airship for don Karnage's sky pirates who operated a airship called the iron vulture and they would try and make raids on cape suzette and generally fail and get turned away by the cliff anti aircraft cannons

"Don't all good stories, involve pirates?"😎

@Maxtyur

3 ай бұрын

No.

@riftvallance2087

Ай бұрын

​@@Maxtyurwell never heard of one making a story worse

@Maxtyur

Ай бұрын

@@riftvallance2087 No.

@riftvallance2087

Ай бұрын

@@Maxtyur Name one?

@Maxtyur

Ай бұрын

@@riftvallance2087 Pirates of the Caribbean.

For real Sky-pirates - check out the game ‘Skies Of Arcadia: Legends’.

There was a band of American pirates in WW2 that stole and modified B-17/B-25s to raid Japanese convoys. They were led by Paul Irvin Gunn.

>Simon: The only sky pirates >Houthies: let me introduce myself

Really wish that episode of history would have lasted a little longer. Just for the epics.

So that’s how they got inspired to make that boat hijack scene in “Carnival Row” (Season 2)

That was exceptionally interesting. My only complaint is the odd way you mispronounced Tanzania. Otherwise, amazing video as always

Like B1M, Simon Whistler is guilty of code switching.

A light pistol is a flare gun. I didn't hear that mentioned and i was trying to figure it out for awhile...turned out to be a trickier thing to Google than I was expecting, too, so i thought i might share in case I can save anyone else from needing to do that

@EpsilonNPC

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Dear Sir, 1 think you may be incorrect on one point. Count Otto Von Zeppelin was working on airships before 1900AD. That was when he established Demag, the world's first airline. The Zeppelin company also manufactured cars at some point. I don't know the exact time. Otherwise, a nice episode.

And here I am thinking for decades that "Tale Spin", the 1990s Disney cartoon, was just a fictional story about sky pirates. 😂🐻🐯🐵🛩

@durandol

2 ай бұрын

Fun fact, the Sea Duck was a combination of a Fairchild C-82 Packet, Grumman HU-16 Albatross, and a Consolidated PBY Catalina.

The jemen rebels did something similar with a helicopter recently in the red sea.

6:32 "all the tome" hahahaha

"Something to sing a song about afterwards"....did they say that in Klingon?

Thought this was gonna be about spirit airlines.

The moment i saw the title i IMMEDIATELY thought of Talespins Don Carnage 🤣

Simon looks like a chad in the thumbnail of these old vids

Your editor missed a typo at 5:06 "Something to SIGN a song about."

Who can forget the infamous Air Pirate Don Karnage.

That's commerce raiding, not piracy.

Everyone be ho ho ho with a bottle of rum until the hydrogen starts acting funny

I believe the correct name for sky pirates is “skyrates”; or American Airlines.

Technically speaking it's not piracy if it's a naval vessel. In that case it's commerce raiding and is perfectly legal. That being said, the only practical difference between piracy and legal warfare is whether have the right flag or not