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I fucking love Archer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents
Apart from the 80% of the entries that are basically “Crashed during bad weather” - my personal highlights:
… breaks loose from its mooring during a storm and is blown over the English Channel; after sightings in Wales and Ireland and a brief touchdown in Belfast, the airship was blown out over the Atlantic Ocean and is never seen again.
Zeppelin LZ 8 Deutschland II (brand new) is caught by a wind gust while being walked out of its hangar and damaged beyond repair after it smashes on the roof of the hangar.
… the airship, weighed down with gold and burgundy paint, reached 600 feet altitude before beginning an unplanned right descending turn, making a “controlled descent” into a garbage dump, impaling the blimp on a pine tree, coming down just a quarter-mile from the site of the Hindenburg’s 1937 demise.
… suffers an intentional mid-air collision with a radio-controlled airplane.
lol, the gilded blimp crashing into a junkyard
Every 100 years, I guess. We gotta go through all the shit every 100 years.
We had the pandemic, now likely a great depression, so why not Hindenburg?
Who needs Hindenburg when you have Boeing? Also Boeing: Bits Of Engine In Neighbours Garden
Well, the Nazis were stupid and used hydrogen instead of helium. The Hindenburg, pride of Nazi Germany, was full of rich people when it blew up in New Jersey, so who really cares anyway?
Helium is very finite and very leaky. If you want flying ships you need something else.
They should just get some guy to make more Helium. Lazy kids…
It’s also worth noting that it wasn’t the hydrogen that caused the fire. The Hindenburg had an aluminium skin. It began having degradation issues, so they painted it. The paint was iron oxide based. Aluminium and iron oxide are the 2 main ingredients in thermite.
Analysis of the video shows that it was the skin burning off. It would have gone up almost as badly, even if filled with helium.
Not according to myth busters. Although some thermite reactions likely accured the blimp would have gone up without it
Well they weren’t totally stupid, they couldn’t get helium because the US restricted them from getting it as the largest supplier. The plan was originally to use helium, but they went with the second best option.
The Nazis had to use hydrogen because that other gas was hoarded as a strategic reserve by another nation.
But still Nazis. So…
Anyway big flying things are cool. Still would be.
its just that planes are faster, cheaper to build, less of a hassle to land and take off…
Far from the only fuckup they made.
We shouldn’t have made them from led.
I don’t understand this meme. Everyone knows that modern airships use helium instead of hydrogen, right?
I thought farts used them.
I thought they used farts
Whatever happened to the Goodyear Blimp? Feels like it’s been decades since I’ve seen it!
They’re actually having a 100 year celebration right now and all 3 of the US based Goodyear blimps are over Akron, Ohio this week.
It’s still around. It regularly flies over the Rose Bowl for big games.
We need more airship content
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