The Hindenburg: Rise and Fall of the World's Greatest Airship

In the early 1900s, airships were the next big thing, with wealthy Europeans crossing the Atlantic inside of a huge floating ball of gas.

An explosion that has become synonymous with failure changed all that... well, at least for the remainder of the 20th century.

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[Rennkartoffel]

the pronunciation of "die Deutschlandfahrt" just killed me XD. love these historical stories tho' keep up the good work!

[Rufrky]

Simon: "Anyone else here play Red Alert 2? The Zeppelins, they were the weapon of choice."
C&C Fans: "Kirov Reporting."

[Robert]

I’d like to hear more about the modern day airships!

[KevinTuyau]

Part of why the event is so memorable is because of the event being filmed and also broadcast on radio. Since then the audio and visual have been combined to create a video that is like a live TV broadcast.

[silenttoxic]

Let’s get a video on the Hubble Space Telescope 🔭

[AsbestosMuffins]

ticket on the hindenberg: ~7, 000$
ticket on the concord: ~7, 000$

1st class ticket on any airline today: Still 7, 000$

[wietzepost]

Project: The floating tunnel between Denmark and Sweden

[Nilguiri]

"Dye Dushandler Fart"? Oh the humanity!

[TheAndroidNextDoor]

This might be an odd one to request but how about one on the removal of the Costa Concordia. I know there are larger cruise ships and this channel tends to focus on single objects rather than events but I can't imagine the removal of that wreck was anything less than difficult.

[TeslaMaster]

1:53 "Kirov reporting." "Bombardiers to your stations!" Those things were really deadly, especially when upgraded.

[zeppelinmage]

Do one on ITER... the US$22B multinational fusion project.

[MarshFlyFightWin]

Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Awesome video.

[hippie]

Need a video on the A10 Warthog. The only plane literally built around a gun.

[AskAScreenwriter]

And not a word about Led Zeppelin and their first album cover!

[calinsa]

KIROV

20 yrs later i still hear them in my nightmares...

[jacobzimmermann]

Just a little correction, Simon: the Hindenburg's sister ship was the Graf Zeppelin II, which never entered service. The original Graf Zeppelin, transporting passengers at the time, was an older generation airship. Interestingly, the Graf Zeppelin was somewhere over the Atlantic returning from Brazil when the Hindenburg crashed. Its flight crew was informed of the disaster by radio and decided not to tell anything to the passengers until their arrival in Germany.

[writewatson]

I would love to see a deep-dive into the Canadian Avro Arrow! A humble Canuck mega-project.

[TheGrinningViking]

Myth busters did a thing on this.

The skin burned, the hydrogen burned, but together they burned like sparklers.

[jedetraktor_cz]

sorry to say, but Hindenburg was NOT president of Germany in 1936 ... main reason being his death in 1934 .

[johnbeeck]

Congrats on 300K Subs! Very well deserved!