The XO at a Naval Air Station where I was stationed (back in the 1970's) got his wings in LTA - "lighter than air". They looked like regular Navy pilots wings except the wing was only on one side (he later qualified for multi engine aircraft). He told me a story that back in the day, each airship facility (there were several on each coast) had its own helium-manufacturing plant. (You can still see one at NAS Tillamook, OR). Helium was extremely expensive, and they were taught to NOT waste it. To launch, you had to let helium out of storage into the "bag", and the airship would rise. You couldn't put the helium back into compressed storage while aloft. When you're flying along at, say 1,000 feet, the airship is at "neutral buoyancy", it can neither climb nor descend. Now, how do you descend, and land ? It was frowned upon to vent the expensive helium into the surrounding air. Pilots were trained to "get 500 lbs heavy". The most common methods of doing this were: (1) Try to find a rain shower and fly under the rain cloud, letting a lot of water stick to the bag. Generally, this method would achieve the desired results, if there was a handy rain shower nearby. (2) The airship had a large bucket with a winch and cable system. The crew could lower the bucket, fill it up with water from the ocean, and gain weight that way (water is pretty heavy stuff, coming in at about 8.3 lbs/gallon as an estimate). Sometimes the crew would bring home dinner in the bucket as they winched it up. In this instance, it would appear the crew might have been engaged in filling their bucket, and weren't secured in the airship. They fell out.

@thomassmestead6424

4 жыл бұрын

This sounds to me to be the most likely explanation.

@default123default2

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Seems plausible. This comment needs more votes

@thurin84

4 жыл бұрын

i guess theyre dinner didnt agree with them.....before they ate it.

@noalear

4 жыл бұрын

How do they descend, drop the bucket, fill it with water, raise it back up, -ascend with extra weight-, fly home, and then land?

@wingmanjim6

4 жыл бұрын

@@noalear By maintaining forward airspeed and flying slightly nose up, the ship develops aerodynamic lift in same way ( albeit much less efficiently ) tat an aircraft wing does, which compensates for the extra weight. Of course, if the airship slows down or stops, the aero lift disappears and the airship will necessarily descend unless the water bucket or internal water ballast is dropped to lighten the ship and reestablish neutral or positive buoyancy.

Most likely event: one of them slipped and was dangling out. The other left the controls to try to rescue them, and both wound up falling into the sea.

@GuMpAkC

4 жыл бұрын

Or....Aliens.

@m4yd1e86

4 жыл бұрын

@Daver G How do you end up in a position where you're in the air, and a submarine forces you to surrender?

@willmorrell488

4 жыл бұрын

@@GuMpAkC *Ancient Aliens* have entered the chat.

@Inny1984

4 жыл бұрын

@@m4yd1e86 Well, some submarines had Anti-Air guns and a Blimp is pretty easy to shot down. But this scenario is very unlikely.

@m4yd1e86

4 жыл бұрын

@@Inny1984 well it would be more than unlikely since there's no mention of damage to it. Also I think any sane person would try to make a break for it instead of just jumping out of it and surrendering. There's no disputing nearly any kind of weapons fire would bring one down.

It's weird I've been to Pensacola NAS about 1000 times and have looked at that gondola but never delved into it's back story. Great Video!

@SpicyTexan64

4 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@joshiewilkes

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@Fukayooo

4 жыл бұрын

Same I went last year

@wadeguidry6675

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

@plagueftw4332

4 жыл бұрын

Live in Pensacola and I’ve never realized this

y'all remember when the Goodyear blimp said "ice cubes a pimp"?

@blampfno

3 жыл бұрын

I do. That was a good day.

@davesomeone4059

3 жыл бұрын

@@blampfno So glad pimping is finally main stream!

I remember seeing the Unsolved Mysteries segment on this story many years ago. That show scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid.

@User31129

4 жыл бұрын

I watched the show when I was 8. I shouldn't have been watching the show at 8! Lol

@aewhatever

4 жыл бұрын

You make me feel old

@kdavidsmith1

3 жыл бұрын

Same.

Sky pirates, obviously.

@willmorrell488

4 жыл бұрын

Crimson Skies.

@notjimpickens7928

4 жыл бұрын

Damn sky pirates are at it again!

@banhatlessducks

4 жыл бұрын

Pirate cats in a hot air balloon

@georgerogers215

4 жыл бұрын

Call Sky Captain.........

@willmorrell488

4 жыл бұрын

*Nathan Zachary has entered the chat*

I'm old enough to have been around to see these wonderful flying lumps all over the country. We even had one do an emergency landing at our school when I was little, which turned in to a surprise tour. The crew was very nice about it all. You can't truly get an understanding of the massive scale of these until you're right underneath one that's low to the ground.

I've always been interested in mysteries but this channel is constantly coming up with stories I've never heard about. How do you find these stories DD?

@splash4934

4 жыл бұрын

Probably something like “unsolved mysteries “ ghost thinggy

@rye811

4 жыл бұрын

Tim King www.historynet.com/mystery-of-the-ghost-blimp.htm

@terryboyer1342

4 жыл бұрын

@Tim King I've seen a couple shows about this incident over the years.

@jakethe365

4 жыл бұрын

@@rye811 damn way to come in clutch with the fact check lol

@bobthebuilder1360

4 жыл бұрын

@Tim King I imagine that he just searches "unbelievable stories" on google

they saw one of those anthropomorphic ship girls and bailed out to meet her.

@blackstone1a

4 жыл бұрын

Mystery solved, we can go home now

@LostShipMate

4 жыл бұрын

I-400?

@europaaugust9598

4 жыл бұрын

I would crash into a ship girl hoping it dies. But then the plane girls would wage war on my country.

@wilsoncalhoun

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly the only viable theory.

@F-4E-58-MC

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with this theory. I am well-versed on the topic of shipgirls.

I came here for some advertisements and saw a documentary.

@McTagg

4 жыл бұрын

seriously, it’s crazy at this point. i get they want to make their money but i play the video in the background and just listen to the commentary. when i get a 20 minute ad 4 times in one video it becomes annoying to continuously drop what i’m doing to skip it.

@TreeLBollingTreeMan

4 жыл бұрын

@@McTagg What ads? I'm not seeing a single ad, but then again I'm using AdGuard. Perhaps you should too... adguard.com/en/welcome.html

@stoneblue1795

4 жыл бұрын

We have a funny man. You get a YAHTZEE for that.

@McTagg

4 жыл бұрын

@@TreeLBollingTreeMan i was on mobile

@knallpistolen

4 жыл бұрын

I click like and comment, they need to do it right for me to suffer 1 hour of ads - what happened to the 1 ad at start only, and perhaps 1 at the end

This si a great channel. I'm sort of an amateur history buff, especially military things, but you have introduced me to stuff I never heard of before. Keep up the good work.

My how far Goodyear has fallen in 2020

@johnnyjarrett8166

3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing man

@paulrevere2928

3 жыл бұрын

I guess Goodyear was one of the Imperialist USA’s corporate sponsors of the Vietnam War since that’s why we were truly there, for the rubber plant resources...

@robertsullivan4773

3 жыл бұрын

You do know Goodyear doesn't make the blimp anymore. They haven't for years.

@Original-Phantom

3 жыл бұрын

@Cris Topher shut up weirdo

@Jbcblack

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulrevere2928 lol

Even with stories I've heard before from several sources there are always new details and angles when you present them here. You do a really nice job researching and finding those details that almost nobody else covers!

The answer lies in why the 3rd person was ordered to stay behind and who did that.

@Zxuriiiaa

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they killed them

@talex7473

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. Maybe this was a murder-suicide

@someday3178

3 жыл бұрын

But why?

The amount I have learned from this channel is incredible, officially my go to for learning more about war history. Keep up the amazing work!!!

They both fell out and were swept away. One probably was peering out the door and started falling. The pilot probably tried rescue and also fell out. Should have worn a safety strap. A careless accident. The waters off the Golden Gate as especially dangerous. The captain of USS Plunger was lost overboard off the bridge. Off the Golden Gate in 1973. His body was never recovered.

@waltradcliffe4482

4 жыл бұрын

At first I thought you said peeing than I thought hey just maybe he was

@benphillips9229

4 жыл бұрын

That's a good theory

@stoneblue1795

4 жыл бұрын

Some big mouthed great white sharks in that area, some seasons more than others. Chomp, chomp.

@rickfordmorningstar130

4 жыл бұрын

@e causey I'm sorry sir, that's... CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET. After all, who knows? Maybe that 70+ year old info would jeopardize national security, lmfao

@aewhatever

4 жыл бұрын

Lol Ithat was my very first thought

The only thin that speaks to me is that the cliff might be their final resting place, getting out to try and free it they succeed only to fall off the ledge and to their doom

@meetoo594

4 жыл бұрын

You would think the authorities would search the cliff and surrounding area though. Im thinking one went out to free/repair something and got into trouble and the other one tried to help and they both fell into the ocean.

@DrGreerIsRight

4 жыл бұрын

I think the went awol on the cliff. Could be that it was an excuse to get then to be used for black projects. Just pretend no one knows what happened then they have 2 good gentlemen to use for whatever they see fit. Then it wouldn't matter what happened to them. No one would have to take responsibility for them.

@meetoo594

4 жыл бұрын

@@DrGreerIsRight That did go through my mind, they were both valuable airmen. Maybe they got promoted to a secret project somewhere.

@Pronunciation101

4 жыл бұрын

​@@meetoo594 You would think so, but no official search of the cliff was ever undertaken according to the Navy incident report. It was assumed that the contact with the cliff wasn't "signifigant enough for the men to have disembarked by their own volition", but that doesn't mean they didn't fall out. I personally imagine they opened the door to try to push back against the cliff, hoping to "bounce" the blimp away from its side (like kicking a boat off from the pier, that sort of move). The blimp wasn't particularly huge, and this kind of force could actually have had an impact... but if they screwed up somehow or a sudden gust of wind rammed them into the cliff hard enough with that door open, especially if one of the men was attached to the other to try to prevent exactly this from happening... well, gravity does the rest. Another thing to consider is the way the gondola attached at multiple points to the helium sac. If the the blimp was pressed into the side of a cliff with a little steady wind, the sac could catch and "roll" the gondola significantly, tipping the men out, especially if the door was open.

@josecolon2717

4 жыл бұрын

John Smith it may not have been significant enough to ask for aid or the radio could have been damaged

My theory is that they made a mistake and misjudged their altitude and got stuck on that cliff. At that point they either abandoned the ship thinking that the situation was hopeless or fell out in some kind of attempt to free it. The wind probably changed and freed it from the cliff without the crew onboard.

@nateweter4012

4 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what I was thinking. I believe something happened on that cliff. They may have exited the gondola attempting to free it and perhaps fell to their death there, wildlife taking care of the remains. That or they fell into the sea somehow. The locking lever being removed confirms they left the gondola at some point. Over the sea in while in the fog, or on that cliff is where the incident took place, I believe.

@barrishautomotive

4 жыл бұрын

Bingo

@pleonic

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, it wuz aliens. It's always aliens.

@dash8brj

4 жыл бұрын

This is most likely what happened. Mistake navigating the balloon, causing ti to get stuck on th cliff, exited the gondola in order to free the balloon, and either perished due to falling to their deaths, or the wind changed, the balloon freed itself and got away before the crew could climb back into the gondola, and they "disappeared" so as not to be reprimanded by their superiors. Even at idle, a lighter than air vessel would either head nose first at a slow pace, or drift with the prevailing wind. If the conditions were right, once freed it could have gained altitude rapidly, or gotten away at a decent pace, preventing the crew from re-boarding the vessel. The cliff is possibly where one of the gas cells in the envelope got punctured, resulting in the craft landing shaped like a pretzel.

@flashgordon6670

4 жыл бұрын

No they deliberately landed on the cliff, because they wanted to damage the air ship and make it look like it crashed and they died. Bc they were bum chums and ran away together to live on Brody's farm and that sort of thing was frowned upon extremely back then.

Such a sad and mysterious fate for two brave men. We will never know what happened.

As a youth in the mid 50s I recall seeing these air ships still patrolling in the bay from San Rafael. Don't know when they stopped.

It was mentioned that for a short time the Blimp settled on a hillside. Could have someone jumped off then. Not saying I support that theory but it was mentioned.

@flashgordon6670

4 жыл бұрын

When was that mentioned? Surely a crucial detail that supports my personal theory, they were bum chums and ran away together.

@rickfordmorningstar130

4 жыл бұрын

@@flashgordon6670 aaaaaaaaand Flash Gordon nails it. FLASH!!! AHH AHHH! Savior of the universe!

@aewhatever

4 жыл бұрын

@@flashgordon6670 @ 6:29 they mentioned it stuck on a hill....I was thinking the same thing. What if something broke and they tried to fix it. Blimp hits the cliff, they get thrown off balance and fell. Mechanical failure would explain it being 8 miles off course.

@generalkayoss7347

4 жыл бұрын

@@aewhatever The blimp was 8 miles off course by the time it snagged the cliff, they weren't in it.

@mikeytee6821

4 жыл бұрын

@@flashgordon6670 "bum chums"....LMAO!!!!!

EXCELLENT job, Dark Docs!

It's great to see this video and to have Moffett Field acknowledged. They still have the dirigible hangers. I was lucky enough to have worked at Moffett for some time. Thanks for the great video!

Before the airship drifted into the city uncrewed it was seen 'stuck' to a cliff. That's where one or both of the men left the ship.

@HenriFaust

Жыл бұрын

That seems likely. How could the airship its flightpath after circling without a pilot?

The sub theory is not credible, the Japanese just pulled up like " Hey get down here right now" and they were aight.

@ryanverkamp6637

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure how you figure that. You can say how you'd react as much as you'd like, but when someone is pointing a large gun in your face and at your slow moving aircraft, I'm betting you'd do what these people say. Multiple people are saying oh there would be damage! No, not if the weapons weren't fired.

@jonathanbaker8593

3 жыл бұрын

@bill Murray Flying over the wrong ocean but great imagination!

The narrator does these naked y'know, says it helps him concentrate...

@lestatangel

4 жыл бұрын

Always do my narrations during bejay's

@rickfordmorningstar130

4 жыл бұрын

Approx. 40% of his audience is naked too... And ~15% are actively shitting while watching/commenting!

@ovniusa15

4 жыл бұрын

He also touches himself whilst the story climax

@lestatangel

4 жыл бұрын

@@thishandleistacken - don't try it if you're going to fry bacon. Just thought I'd give you a heads up on that.

@dachimneysmokerc7621

4 жыл бұрын

I usually watch these videos whilst playing bopp It

Dark Docs and Dark Sky's, you have it covered better than anyone with these 2. Thanks again for these.

One of the coolest memories I have with my dad is going up in the Goodyear blimp. Glad I didn’t see this first.

When my Father lived in Long Beach CA he would play down at the beach when not in school, one day the Police had the beach blocked off, one of the Officers he knew told him two body's had watched up, both had life perseveres on and we're tied together. Just the torso's were left, no heads, arms or legs, I've often wondered if they were the missing crew of the L-8 I'm sure the Corner would have more information, if they buried them they might retrieve DNA who knows.

@Baconateyou

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a long way for bodies to go, from San Francisco all the way to Long Beach? Doubtful, but an interesting theory none the less.

@berkeleygang1834

4 жыл бұрын

@@Baconateyou Current goes south from San Francisco, but once it reaches Point Conception, it heads out to sea. Current from Long Beach travels north to the same point (Conception) where it meets the current from San Francisico and heads westward out to sea. For the bodies to go that far south, then make the loop of the North Equatorial Current - the bodies would be long decomposed if not shark food. Lots of shark activity just in the area off San Francisco - south. We constantly hear of NorCal surfers attacked by sharks. It seems unlikely the two men found in Long Beach are these aviators.

@generalkayoss7347

4 жыл бұрын

@@berkeleygang1834 Once a body bloats it can act as a sail. If there were a stiff wind out of the North West at the time, that could have overcome the strength of the current, pushing the bodies farther south. However the chances of both bodies traveling that far and washing up on the same beach is very slim.

@kennysherrill6542

4 жыл бұрын

@@generalkayoss7347 They were tied together and they were back to back, the Police officer told my Dad they were sailors, my Dad said he looked at the life jackets and they had small barnacles growing on them, this would have been at least a year after the Aviators went missing. I'm going to give the L.A. Coroner's office a call a just check and see if a search can be made.

@xofcenter5576

4 жыл бұрын

@@berkeleygang1834 Simply being in the drink near the Farallons for more than a few hours will reduce you to shark food. There are so many sharks in this area it's as if it's just sharks eating sharks. My opinion is they ended up in the water for whatever reason, were dined on by sharks, then the remnants cycled out into the Pacific per the currents. What remains of them are probably lost in the mass of garbage out in the dead zone.

Some say that out on the country-side, near a cliff, 2 skeleton remains can be found in a phonebooth with the horn and the Navy base phonenumber still in their hands...

@letoubib21

4 жыл бұрын

No, these were the two _U.S.S. Eldridge_ guys, you know? *;-)*

Your channels are quickly becoming my "go to" video's! Excellent research, content and production👏 Thank you DD! 👍✴

I live a few miles away from Lakehurst. Always interesting to see history that base has made.

A flying version of the Mary Celeste.

I remember seeing this story on unsolved mysteries with Robert Stack. It was the first time I had heard of the incident.

This is a good mystery.....Thank the Dark for the...Docs...!

Fascinating, hadn't come across this before - especially intrigued by the connection to the Doolittle Raid

Great story. It's a bit like the bomber that landed on it's own with missing crew.

when the air ship got hung up on the mountain they walked away from it and lived there lives under false names

It must have been calming just floating along like that. Interesting tale. So they went down to look at the submarine, one got shot, the other going to help got shot. Both falling from the craft. The craft meanders off being blown to shore. Or not.

This is really one of the most interesting cases of its type and I'm shocked that it hasn't got more press down the years

When I was young the Good Year Blimp used to be kept at a farm down the road from where I lived, prior to the Dallas Cowboys football games. It flew over our house many times at very low altitudes.

Commentary way too fast. Had to replay at 75% to make sense. BTW, knots IS a speed per hour, so you don't have to say "knots per hour". From an old sailor.

@aewhatever

4 жыл бұрын

Try speeding up your thought process

@mike62mcmanus

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking he sped it up 10% or so, I checked my settings to make sure..

@dagann1

4 жыл бұрын

Navy pilots refer to knots as speed when flying. And, I'm an old salty-dog too.

@michiowihl

4 жыл бұрын

Dark docs is tje

@buckbundy8642

3 жыл бұрын

Yea it’s either speed up or the narrator is high on amphetamines. I had to slow it down just so it didn’t annoy the hell out of me.

Awesome video!

Love this channel!

Air current's I get. The crew most likely bailed .. possibly spooked by the depth charge they had prepped. We'll never know. But the damaged, crewless B17 that returned to England and landed is beyond comprehension.

@justaguythatexists331

4 жыл бұрын

It is either paranormal, the cause of aliens, or sheer coincidence. With nothing to disprove any possibility, all are equally plausible, and implausible.

@12Burton24

4 жыл бұрын

Ahm what a B17 will never be able to land without a crew

@justaguythatexists331

4 жыл бұрын

@@12Burton24 Evidently one did, which should be impossible. Yet it happened. Why did it happen? Dont know. How? Dont know either. But the fact that it happened stays the same.

@CosmicCleric

4 жыл бұрын

@@justaguythatexists331 Any additional info about this? Would like to know more.

@kennysherrill6542

4 жыл бұрын

The B-17 story was debunked years ago as a fake story.

Seems more like a Dark Skies to me, great vid all the same.

Good one double D...perciate it. Stay healthy good luck!

Always enjoy your content. Interesting stuff. The amount of adds is killer though jeez.

Perhaps there was a gas leak into the cabin and they were suffocating so decided to abandon the airship.

So the pilot could hover over an moving vessel...and he got " hung up " on a mountaintop? Was that spot /area investigated?

It’s so crazy to see a video of an event that happened so close to my hometown

I really enjoyed this.

There is a small piece of wreckage with an 8 on it at the MAPS air museum in North Canton Ohio. Along with the story of the L-8s mysterious incident.

dispatch hey they maybe found a sub they also suddenly stop communicating they are fine lets go get a coffee

@user-ru9pd6tf4s

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i feel like maybe they shoud've said something if a blimp reported spotting a potential submarine then going silent.

its so strange watching hundreds of videos but hearing towns and military bases that are right near me!

I think some of that airship footage was taken at Moffett Field. I used to live a few exits down from there... When I was growing up in the 90's, the hangers were still there. They've been tearing down or refurbishing the big one for years now. I love seeing shit like that. edit- yup, just heard him mention them being at Moffett. I knew I recognized those hangars!

Goodyear has been phasing out it's non-ridged airships. They currently fly non-ridged Zeppelins. Goodyear never did offer a passenger service.

@johnbeauvais3159

4 жыл бұрын

A zeppelin by definition has some rigid structure

@obeseboy597

4 жыл бұрын

they did, over the bodensee in germany

The Giant Squid from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea lured them down with its ink. Thinking it was an oil slick, the crew flew low to investigate. Then the squid pounced upon the unsuspecting men and ate them.

@joeyjamison5772

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I saw that GEICO commercial too.

Amazing videos.

DarkDocs & DarkSkies Re always interesting to those of us who know history has been manipulated. Thumbs up!

They spotted something and decided to take a couple pictures, one guy slipped and other guy tried to help.

@aewhatever

4 жыл бұрын

That actually sounds pretty plausible. He didn't say how close the fishing vessels were. If they were close enough not to see anyone fall out.

I've never been this early! Love these videos!

Hell yeah my morning just got better.

I've flown on Goodyear's airship American 3 times, The pilot either didn't know about the crash or was told not to mentioned it. I learned something new watching this video, thanks!. It flew out of the Long Beach area in Southern Calif., it was a lot of fun and really interesting to fly on the blimp. Here's a couple of tidbits about the airship.......when you take off it's practically vertical, same when you land, it feels like you're diving rather than landing. Cruising speed was around 35 miles an hour, you could stick your head out of the window and look around and directly below. The take off and landing was performed with a large wheel like on a sail boat that sat between the pilots legs and he'd turn the wheel which sent probably water forward or backwards to pitch the nose up or down.

Possibly the airship was intentionally grounded on the cliff so one or maybe both could have fled.

Strong lovecraftian vibes from this one. Maybe they caught a glimpse or the eldritch truth

@crf80fdarkdays

4 жыл бұрын

Lovecraftian? Eldritch?

@rdouthwaite

4 жыл бұрын

@@crf80fdarkdays www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/3rsibz/what_is_the_eldritch_truth/

@caseylawrence6674

4 жыл бұрын

Not quite sure what you mean by love craft Ian? Whatcha mean

@DonQuixote03

4 жыл бұрын

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

@lauragarrard919

4 жыл бұрын

@@DonQuixote03 All hail Yog Sothoth.

Sad for love ones and we that value our servicemen beyond words..

A classic case of a struggle with one telling the other if I go your going with me.

If they were still in the airship when it got caught on the cliff they may have exited believing the ship couldn't be freed and had gotten lost or killed in the process.

Gas poisoning, like carbon monoxide or something. They jumped or fell out.

@dazaspc

4 жыл бұрын

@The Infidel Ahh so you have been on my bus in the morning on the way to work then...

this story sound just like the movie The Lighthouse. awesome film.

From a young age this mysterious airship has always intrigued me, if you look inside there used to be a small, black electronic device that to me looked very similar to a pager, not something you would expect to see from a 1940s era aircraft, I often wonder if it was left there by a staff member when the exhibit was setup many years ago.

They got out when stuck in the hills!

They got out when it was stuck on the cliff

Good doco.

Excellent documentary. I live near Glynco Naval Air base in Georgia, once a naval blimp base and home of the largest wooden blimp hangars in the world. Do y’all suppose the unidentifiable sighting was a UFO and the two pilots were victims of another alien abduction? The two personnel missing have never been recovered...

"Knots per hour" isn't a thing. It's just "knots".

@chrisreardon7185

4 жыл бұрын

GoSlash27 “knots” is an abbreviation. Kilometres per hour exist, but we still say “kays”/k’s or km/h

@michaelpiatkowskijr1045

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisreardon7185 it's knots. Sailing ships would tie knots in a rope. The rope would be ran out for an hour. After that, they would count the knots and that was their speed.

@XxBloggs

4 жыл бұрын

Knots are nautical miles per hour.

@baronofclubs

4 жыл бұрын

If knots is a measurement of velocity, than knots per hour would be a measurement of acceleration.

@thurin84

4 жыл бұрын

same with "lt senior grade" its just "lt".

"the blimp was stuck on a cliff". So ... u dont think they got off the blimp at that time?

@yjwrangler7819

4 жыл бұрын

.....and then what?

@SABREX7

4 жыл бұрын

@@yjwrangler7819 they went for a beer ;)

@chexlemeneux8790

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what I was thinking, if they were having issues and then suddenly had the opportunity to get on solid ground, Im sure they'd take it.

@vladriot510

3 жыл бұрын

@@chexlemeneux8790 Yes sir i know i would

@newcreationinchrist1423

3 жыл бұрын

@@chexlemeneux8790 and then what? both of them went AWOL? Never to be heard from again?

Wow.... first I have herd of this.... im always intrigued in stuff like this especially when its in my backyard

Next time we go to the museum in Pensacola I’ll have to look for it. And the kc130 they landed on a aircraft carrier

Interesting, maybe they have a connection with the mysterious “K” in Japanese rice fields you made a video about before?

@joshuabowmans7139

4 жыл бұрын

Mysterious K? Explain please.

@joshuabowmans7139

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much my friend.👽🛸👽🛸👽🛸👽

@jessmeowmeow

4 жыл бұрын

What you talkin about? I thought I'd seen all his videos

@jacobcurran5543

4 жыл бұрын

How would a blimp fly to japan and back while simultaneously being watched off the coast of california?

@mobythelion3882

4 жыл бұрын

It was the Vietnamese I think you got that wrong

Reminds me of the Lady-b-Good incident.

@James-oo1yq

4 жыл бұрын

Justin Thompson Their bodies were found in the Desert though, nothing like this

@justint361

4 жыл бұрын

James Not all their bodies were found if you wanna get technical about it.

@johnh1001

4 жыл бұрын

The Lady Be Good Incident was so interesting , I'm surprised it was not made into a movie .

@Nckolas20

4 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing about that on the History channel show "History's Mysteries", not as eerie compared to this story

I love going to that museum.

Exhaust leak from one of the engines. The blimp controlled its altitude by forcing air from the engine into a large bladder inside the helium. The more air you forced into it the less lift you had. The engines had an exhaust leak and the bladder was full of air heavily contaminated with Carbon Monoxide. When they started bleeding that air out of the bladder to slow their descent the gondola was flooded with it and they were both knocked out by the fumes. Thats when the blimp began slowly descending while circling , both pilots were unconscious at the controls. At some point , one (or both) of the crew regained conscience and abandoned the aircraft. This could have happened at any time from when it was circling low over the water until it hit the cliff. In all likelyhood the impact with the cliff wasn't the only time it made contact with the ground and the crew probably got out at one of those times , but with blood saturated with Carbon Monoxide they wouldn't have been able to walk (or crawl) more than a few yards at a time before collapsing from exhaustion, and would be VERY susceptible to death by exposure. (Their thinking would also be heavily impaired) They probably crawled under some brush to rest and died of hypothermia that night because their oxygen deprived bodies couldn't generate enough heat to keep them alive when the temperature dropped.

Bro.....way too many adverts dude!

@TreeLBollingTreeMan

4 жыл бұрын

@ ed horton What ads? I'm not seeing a single ad, but then again I'm using AdGuard. Perhaps you should too... adguard.com/en/welcome.html

@CosmicCleric

4 жыл бұрын

@@TreeLBollingTreeMan Doable on a phone?

@pd4165

4 жыл бұрын

Ed - it's the way KZread is now - lots of people complaining about it.

@willmorrell488

4 жыл бұрын

Been using KZread vanced for years. No ads.

@Marcos7I0

4 жыл бұрын

5 on mine lol helluva lot

Not gonna say it was Aliens....but it was obviously ALIENS! 👽👽👽

Anyone else watch at .75 speed? You get and extra couple of minutes and it's just the right pace for this type of content.

I would bet good money that this event is closely tied to the Tic-Tac UFO encounter, roughly sixty years later... The pieces fit together perfectly.

My guess is that the two crew mates fell in love and abandoned their airship to go live on a nice pacific island for the rest of their lives

@randygunn9499

3 жыл бұрын

I shit you not I was thinking the exact same thing!! No bs!✌️

@MH-dy8it

3 жыл бұрын

Glad someone else thought of this too.

He said the problem with the theory of the love triangle or whatever not being possible was because there were many witnesses immediately at the crash site. But the blimp didn’t land there first, as he said it landed briefly on a beach head. I’m not saying this is what happened because it’s very strange, but if there was a murder for whatever reason, the pilot could easily have gotten off on the beach, or even when it reportedly dove down to a very low level of 30 ft off the water and been picked up by one of the boats. The mechanic being ordered to stay also lends the case to a conspiracy.

Im new to the channel and would like to saw its very quickly becoming my. Favorite Channel.

Good mystery. Seems like it would be spooky flying that same Goodyear blimp years later.

I bet they defected: Jumped down to the sub when the blimp dropped down to 30 ft.

Interesting! Did Clive Cussler maybe use this story as an inspiration for the opening chapter of the excellent book Cyclops?

@mwindanji6714

4 жыл бұрын

Back when he was still doing the writing....

@Olkv3D

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. nice

@jpk2145

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve read that book!!! I love Clive Cussler books!!

@SolarWebsite

4 жыл бұрын

@@jpk2145 Agreed, most of his books (especially the earlier ones) are very good reads!

They were hammered

Crazy neat story

So did they never consider that one of the remaining crew could have left the airship when it was caught on the mountain? From what I understand not many people saw that part happen and those who did saw it from far away.

@jackdedert2945

4 жыл бұрын

It's all that makes sense to me, but was not even a mention as to what happened. Ship is damaged, losing altitude and gas. The still have engine power, so execute a landing, get out; thereby ridding the airship of at least 300 lbs of ballast, so it rises again...until the final grounding on someone's Model A

I’m not going to say it was aliens. But it was aliens. 👽👽👽👽

I saw that blimp gondola back in 2015 in pensacola, i didn't know it had such an interesting story to it

Great video so interesting especially considering i live in Oakland and work in SF and have family in Pt Reyes.