Balloons! The Forgotten Flights That No One Talks About

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Today we're taking a brief look at the fascinating evolution of manned balloon flight. This is a rich history that stretches back to the 1700s, well before pioneers such as Bleriot, Roe, or the Wright Brothers.
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Sources:
Brooks.P.W (1992), Zeppelin: Rigid Airships 1893-1940.
Ege.L (1973), Balloons and Airships.
Haydon.F.S & Crouch.T.D (2000), Military Ballooning During The Early Civil War.
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0:00 Topic Introduction
1:50 The First Manned Balloon Flight
6:31 The First Hydrogen Balloons
9:41 Crossing The English Channel
12:31 The First Military Balloons
17:43 Developments in the early 1800s
21:43 American Civil War Balloons
25:41 Balloons During The Siege of Paris
27:28 Balloon Development: The Kite-Balloon
32:56 The First Dirigible Balloons
37:31 The First Powered Dirigibles
42:18 More Power, and "La France"

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@RexsHangar Год назад

I am aware I stuffed up the pronunciation of a dozen things, Fleurus included. For once there wasn't a silent "s" it seemed... F.A.Q Section Q: Do you take aircraft requests? A: I have a list of aircraft I plan to cover, but feel free to add to it with suggestions:) Q: Why do you use imperial measurements for some videos, and metric for others? A: I do this based on country of manufacture. Imperial measurements for Britain and the U.S, metric for the rest of the world, but I include text in my videos that convert it for both. Q: Will you include video footage in your videos, or just photos? A: Video footage is very expensive to licence, if I can find footage in the public domain I will try to use it, but a lot of it is hoarded by licencing studies (British Pathe, Periscope films etc). In the future I may be able to afford clips :) Q: Why do you sometimes feature images/screenshots from flight simulators? A: Sometimes there are not a lot of photos available for certain aircraft, so I substitute this with digital images that are as accurate as possible.

@youdontneedtoknow6621 Год назад

Great video against Mr Australia. How about a video on British heavy bombers. Halifax Stirling ect

@arnijulian6241 Год назад

1st decent summary of lighter than air flight I have watched! My Engineering soul enjoyed this brief summary glimpse of the past immensely. This video is genuinely praiseworthy & wait in anticipation for the sequel. I thought I'd have to point out a mistake or 2 but have no complaint that comes to mind surprisingly (Rex Hangers)

@Jjames763 Год назад

First off, I’d like to thank you for a wonderful video! For future reference, however, there is a correction I’d like for you to be made aware of. Ballonets (the original ones, at least) aren’t really used for controlling the volume of lifting gas and thereby affecting the lift directly. Rather, they’re used for the maintenance of the envelope’s pressure and trim, which is to say, its controllability and also its ability to ascend with a fuller, more aerodynamically stable profile without needing to vent gas as it does so to prevent rupture. In other words, it keeps the balloon from getting dangerously floppy, and gives it a much higher ceiling. The static weight of air in the ballonet _does_ have some tiny effect on the effective weight of the balloon, but this is negligible compared to the difference in external air pressure and density, and indeed differences in temperature. Likewise, ballonets have historically been incapable of compressing the lifting gas to any appreciable degree beyond simply maintenance of the envelope’s aerodynamic shape, certainly not to the pressures necessary for control of static heaviness (COSH) which has only recently been successfully demonstrated by testbed hybrid and conventional airships for DARPA. Namely, a modified Sky Dragon airship and the project PELICAN hybrid airship.

@totocaca7035 Год назад

Will you do some "they never flew" video on the even earlier attempts at flying? Icarus is a myth, probably, but it seems to have been on people's minds for a while...

@marvintpandroid2213 Год назад

I do like a rabbit hole.

@foximacentauri7891 Год назад

This video probably won’t have as much views as the next ww2 fighter, but it is 100x more valuable in my opinion. Balloons are way too often overlooked and left out because they didn’t carry guns, but that doesn’t make them less significant in history. Thank you for making this video!

@CalumRaasay Год назад

Damn right, Balloons & dirigibles are so underrated in the history of flight.

@danielescobar7618 Год назад

Fuck it I fuckin love balloons if rex is doin balloons. LETS GO BALLOONING

@benferris6472 Год назад

Balloon ocasionaly had bombs, but had no impact. They where the start od arial warfare and transport

@RedHotMessResell Год назад

And they were art too! Which is crazy. This massive flying thing with things painted on it. Wow

@jantschierschky3461 Год назад

@@CalumRaasay balloons don't fly, they float

@jocax188723 Год назад

On a funny and vaguely relevant note, there exists records of balloon based shenaniganry in a betting book at Brooks of London, where quote "Ld. Cholmondeley has given two guineas to Ld. Derby, to receive 500 Gs whenever his lordship [has sex with] a woman in a balloon one thousand yards from the Earth." The entry is dated 1785, two years post first Montgolfier flight. The fact that it only took two years for someone to ponder the mile high club is extraordinary.

@All2Meme 3 месяца назад

The origin of the Mile High Club.

@EdwardRLyons Год назад

This video is an absolute gem! I've long been interested in aviation, but the story nearly always begins with the Wright Brothers, with everything that preceded them either omitted or dismissed with a few brief mentions. This video helps to fill in much of that huge gap in my knowledge -- such as the fact that von Zeppelin was involved in the American Civil War, and had his introduction to ballooning there! This is the sort of history that makes this channel such a joy to watch. Thank you, Rex!

@danpatterson8009 Год назад

Agreed. Early accounts of manned flight usually limit discussion of balloons and airships to a few pages, and describe them more as a series of unconnected efforts rather than the progression of a class of technology.

@madhukarjonathanminj2772 Год назад

so true, Ballooning history is underrated (idk if Ballooning is a word,but i feel as if i have heard the term before)

@madhukarjonathanminj2772 Год назад

the interest in Ballooning also lead to scientific discoveries in chemistry,for example Boyle's law,the works of Jaques Charles,Gay Lussac etc.

@45CaliberCure Год назад

@@madhukarjonathanminj2772 Boyle's Law annoys me to no end, when I shower. A pox upon him. We don't need his "Junk" science, that affects our "Junk". Double shower curtain is the only answer for his transgressions. I don't need to be enveloped and assaulted by a $5 piece of plastic, when I'm just trying to get the hell on with my day. Very nice video, as usual, man!

@WalterBurton Год назад

Ayup. This was an especially good one. 👍👍👍

@AveryFlies Год назад

Thank you for this video! My parents are hot air balloon pilots and I've been flying all my life! 55,000 cubic feet is pretty small compared to modern hot air balloons (typically 77,000 cu ft+), but the baskets are also significantly heavier these days which makes sense. I would like to see you continue through lighter than air flight, on to the first modern propane-fueled balloon- as it was also a military project for the US navy!

@doankhang9496 Год назад

Imagine flying in a fabric balloon filled with highly flamable hydrogen gas while fighter aircraft flew around you. It must have been terrifying

@SoloRenegade Год назад

surprisingly hard to shoot them down. Due to lack of oxygen, it could be tough to get them to burn. Pilots even tried tracer rounds, incendiary rounds, and rockets in order to get them to burn. One of the best and most famous balloon hunters was Frank Luke Jr. As far as I can tell, he never told anyone how he was able to so reliably destroy balloons.

@calvingreene90 Год назад

@@SoloRenegade But who would believe fart flares?

@KF99 Год назад

But you have a parachute, unlike that fighter pilot.

@Caseytify Год назад

The balloons were so well defended that aviators could win awards for shooting them down.

@mbryson2899 Год назад

At least you usually got a parachute...and the hope that the flaming wreckage didn't land on you.

@richmcgee434 Год назад

What an uplifting video. :) What? Somebody was bound to say it.

@ComradeBenedict Год назад

The best piece on balloon history since Monty Python...

@zorktxandnand3774 Год назад

Also a great documentary, highlighting other aspects of ballooning history.

@renaudtheis1197 Год назад

Great video ! I grew up in Annonay where the Montgolfier brothers invented the first balloon. Every year in June they flew a reproduction of the first unmanned flight. In 1983 they had a week long celebrations for the 200 years birthday with many flights and such. I even had school friends descendants of the De Montgolfier. You missed that the first flight was tested with a couple farm animals. Pretty good pronunciation of French words.

@Zeppflyer Год назад

I am 100% onboard with this. The longer the video the better. Thank you.

@pythosdegothos6181 Год назад

So fascinating. Even something deceptively simple as a tethered balloon has so much to it. Looking forward to more on this little covered topic.

@Hybris51129 Год назад

I am now especially looking forward to your video on Zeppelins. Ever since I first played Crimson Skies I have always had a fascination with them.

@danpatterson8009 Год назад

Some newspapers reported the Wright's first flights as balloon ascents, since that was the known method of "flying" up to that time.

@neiloflongbeck5705 Год назад

Wrong, hang gliders were a know thing. Where do you think the Wrighfs got their aerofoil data for their early flights? Data that they worked out was flawed.

@maryclarafjare Год назад

Wow!

@CharlesStearman Год назад

The book "Falling Upwards" by Richard Holmes is a quite detailed history of ballooning.

@Chironex_Fleckeri Год назад

Thank you

@yes_head Год назад

I had a friend in high school who was absolutely convinced that airships were the future of aviation. Back then (late 70's/early 80's) there always seemed to be articles popping up in aviation- or technology-related publications about how the next generation of airship innovations were going to finally make them a viable commercial alternative to airplanes. Still waiting...

@emjackson2289 Год назад

Ekranoplan wants a word

@paulhaynes8045 Год назад

Still happening! Every decade, at least, the 'airships are future of aviation' articles pop up again. But, even when it seems to make sense, it still never happens!

@twistedyogert Год назад

The trouble with airships is how vulnerable they are to bad weather.

@tankinatorfr Год назад

@@paulhaynes8045 Now we also have hybrid plane/airships vehicle. A spanish company (Air Nostrum) have actually bought some Airlander 10 for its national lines. They should enter in active service around 2026 and carry a hundred of passengers each. They are more complex to operate than airplanes, but require lighter infrastructures and consume far less fuel for the same carried mass.

@maryclarafjare Год назад

This was completely fascinating to hubby and me. Learned a great deal. So much work to plan, write, assemble, edit, narrate, and add graphics to.... can't imagine the time spent. What a marvelous documentary!

@kentl7228 Год назад

Every video or other video has Rex saying sorry for his voice. Each time, I think "I never noticed anything wrong". Rex has a clear voice with great pronunciation. As for this video, I know a lot on aviation, but this had many interesting facts and stories beyond the Montgolfiers. Great work.

@DelverRootnose Год назад

I love the paintings and sketches you've collected for this video. Beautiful and often full of wonder. Great article. I've always been a fan of lighter than air. But I still love watching your videos on weird and googly aircraft.

@sandybarrie5526 Год назад

thousands of people took rides in Captive balloons in many Parris exhibitions 1890's onwards, where VERY large ballons with very large Gondolas were tethered to whinches and the public could pay to ride up to several hundred feet to see Paris (and also in many other cities) .

@philipstevens9227 Год назад

Well done. Enjoyed the post immensely. Especially the references to Zeppelin.

@johnjephcote7636 Год назад

The centre-lowest of one of the engravings of the Paris encirclement depicts the projection of microfilm onto a screen. The carrying of thousands of letters on microfilm was a fascinating innovation.

@gregcampwriter Год назад

This video is nostalgia, since I spent much of my childhood reading about the subject. It's worth mentioning that John Wise, an American balloonist in the nineteenth century, developed a technique of rapidly deflating a balloon at altitude, allowing it to collapse into a parachute that then descended safely to the ground.

@Zebred2001 Год назад

It should be pointed out that some very impressive (and dangerous) altitude records were set by aeronauts. British balloonists James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell ascended to over 34,000 feet, the very edge of the stratosphere - in 1862!

@Chironex_Fleckeri Год назад

How did they breathe up there?

@DaRealKing303 Год назад

I bet that was cold

@neithere Год назад

That's 10,36 km! Incredible.

@Zebred2001 Год назад

@@neithere And they claimed 37,000 feet and just about died doing it!

@BiggestCorvid Год назад

@@Chironex_Fleckeri poorly

@Dr.K.Wette_BE Год назад

Well done ! Careful with your voice, my mother was a teacher and had to stop for a year to get her voice back. Étienne Lenoir was a Belgian (lived in France) inventor (by self-teaching) who created the first commercially successful coal gas two stroke engine. Then he invented the sparkplug. This lead to the first motor boat and the first car. (1.5hp 3km/h) He also developed an automatic telegraph that translated dots and dashes into letters.

@grrlpurpleable Год назад

This subject has benefited enormously from your attention to detail! Excellent work as ever!

@praetor678 Год назад

Excellent video with great information. Lighter then air flight is an immense subject that is a lot of times glossed over because of the many small improvements that made the progress possible. You have done justice to a topic that deserves more reporting. Keep up the fine work.

@roscoewhite3793 Год назад

For further reading on balloons and ballooning, I recommend "Falling Upwards: How We Took To The Air" by Richard Holmes.

@womble321 Год назад

Hi I live near Cardington and a relative worked on the R100 and R101. My mother saw the Graf Zeppelin in the 30s on a UK tour and I saw the skyship fly several times and the sad wreck. It was quite a storm.

@neiloflongbeck5705 Год назад

Jane of the hangars is still in use for airship development - the Airlander 10, which I saw in flight on 17/8/2016, the day it had a crash landing.

@jimgordon7305 Год назад

One of your very best videos ever! (And I am not even interested in balloons!) Maybe you can one day do the same excellent work for early gliders. (Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher etc) Well done!

@SephirothRyu Год назад

Ah, yes, we simply must have a video on the early days of falling with style.

@ToxikDouche Год назад

i know its not conducive to the algorithm but LONG FORM CONTENT LONG FORM CONTENT!!

@jamesengland7461 Год назад

People like Doug Demuro regularly make successful long form content.

@thelexkex Год назад

wow, such a comprehencive history work, it can be converted to a book

@onlycompetitions5083 Год назад

A really fascinating story which is all new to me. To be honest it’s not a subject I have ever thought about and what you have told so far, is a real eye-opener !! ❤

@ParaglidingManiac Год назад

Almost an hour! Wow! Great job!

@Uncle_Neil Год назад

"It is not a balloon! It is an airship! Balloons is for kiddy-winkies!" - Ferdinand von Zeppelin

@richmcgee434 Год назад

"Our balloons didn't kill any of their passengers or crew. How's your record, Ferdinand?" - the Montgolfier Brothers

@andredeketeleastutecomplex Год назад

Real men fly Zeppelins. -Sun Tzu

@readmedottext Год назад

I've been enjoying your channel for awhile now, but this was the best you've had on here, yet.

@tonywatson987 Год назад

Looking forward to the next episode, really good research here, Rex. Thanks for your efforts, much appreciated!

@ViperPilot16 Год назад

Rex any video on Ballons, and Airships especially of this quality is awsome by my standards, and is very much appreciated.

@patrickols Год назад

This may well be the best video you ever made and I have seen them all. I truly commend you on the work you have done for this

@HundreadD Год назад

Really glad this video was recommended me, channels like this is why RU-vid exists.

@grahvis 2 месяца назад

Conquest of the Air, written by John Alexander and published in 1902, is an interesting account of early ballooning. It is available to read online.

@DavidBrown-cp2vm Год назад

Inspector Brown of the Detail Squad here. Potential infractions excepted, a very fine video, thoroughly enjoyable and most informative.

@RocketmanS2K Год назад

What a great video Rex! Far more fascinating than I thought it was going to be. Well done!

@167curly Год назад

Thanks for this fascinating recording, Rex.

@bentindale7533 Год назад

You should probably have mentioned Francesco Lana de Terzi and most importantly Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão. Both regarded as the fathers of aeronautics and hydrostatics , both cited by Montgolfier brothers and Jacques Alexandre Charles and subsequent aviators and both referenced in any reputable aeronautical engineering degree. As a balloon and airship engineer I feel a duty to their recognition.

@brendonbewersdorf986 Год назад

Thank you so much for doing a very in-depth discussion of this topic I'm excited for your other overview videos and possibly future videos focusing on individual airships

@c63amgblack Год назад

This channel is an absolute gem. And fantastic episode

@tobyrobson2939 Год назад

Your best video so far! This is your real strength and USP - well researched and informative videos about uncommon themes and technology, or seldom told stories.

@ricardodavidson3813 Год назад

On the 8th of August 1709, Fr. Bartolomeu de Gusmão, a Portuguese priest, demonstrated a hot-air balloon in the royal palace in Lisbon. He never progressed his idea further into a man-carrying balloon, but as the demonstration was made in the presence of most of Lisbon's diplomatic community it is not impossible that the Montgolfier brothers had become aware of the experiment. One should not ignore this very early pioneer.

@sexynelson100 Год назад

I've just come across your channel now.. and can I just say.. THANK YOU for talking about subjects that are relevant but not really mentioned. I was recently wondering about aircraft and air balloons.. we only hear about the successes of aviation but never about air balloons or when humans actually achieved flight. This video is a great insight into what we don't really know much about. Thanks again.. and Keep up the great work..

@sadwingsraging3044 Год назад

Fantastic resource you have created and I can't wait till you have a full playlist of videos detailing Balloons to the modern blimps to the projected heavy lift commercial blimps I heard about.

@andredeketeleastutecomplex Год назад

Da Vinci: drawings People: crazy guy Balloons: fly & can crash Zeppelin: woosies Also Zeppelin: hydrogen gas Balloons: but how will you survive? Zeppelin: how does that even matter? Wright Bros: big propeller Balloons: mutton chops? Zepellin: looks more like minced meat Jumbo jet: rocket science enters the chat Da Vinci from the grave: 👀

@extremechimpout Год назад

Dude this was so good! Love the longer videos

@williamharvey8895 Год назад

I love these long in depth topics. Looks like Rex might be the aviation version of Drachinefel.

@morskojvolk Год назад

Outstanding, thoroughly enjoyed this. Look forward to the rest of the series.

@randomnickify Год назад

"First to fly"? Now we need entire episode about Otto Lilienthal! :D

@NeistH2o Год назад

Honestly it was so interesting that it didn’t feel like 50 minutes 😳

@mikehipperson Год назад

It wasn't, it was only 48 mins and 14 seconds!

@maryclarafjare Год назад

Ditto!

@JackClayton123 Год назад

I put it off for a few days thinking the same. However, as always, totally interesting!!👍👍

@stephenboshears4832 Год назад

Fantastic work on the research sir

@martinlintzgy1361 Год назад

Your most interesting video so far, and I think I have watched all of them. I never heard of kite balloons, and I will will be finding out more about portable field hydrogen generators. Thank you!

@raylawrence1 Год назад

EXCELLENT ! DILIGENTLY RESEARCHED AND BEAUTIFULLY NARRATED - ABSOLUTELY FACINATING - THANK YOU

@TheCatBilbo Год назад

Ah, an interesting turn of events: balloons! (bless you). Surprising just how many have been used in warfare, especially during the 19th/early 20th Centuries.

@clivedavis6859 Год назад

Thanks. I am so interested in airships and their possible return with modern technology.

@paulhaynes8045 Год назад

Superb! A really excellent production - both very interesting, and very well produced. The use of the graphics was particularly good - no backround fillers, like you get in many educational videos, but every image adding to the understanding of the topic (and I learnt so much from this). God alone knows how much research must have gone into this. I can't wait for the airship installments!

@lucashinch Год назад

Thank you for these proclaimed "rabbit holes" ! Splendid work indeed. I appreciate your humor too . Best Regards!

@dennisfox8673 Год назад

I have always been interested in lighter than air flight, so to say that I’m looking forward to this series is a rather large understatement!

@paulslevinsky580 Год назад

The giant rigids were an amazing footnote in modern history.

@jantschierschky3461 Год назад

Floating not flying

@pbyguy7059 Год назад

Here in the US license plates from North Carolina say "first in flight" (Kitty Hawk) and plates from Ohio say "birthplace of aviation" (Wright Brothers' home state) and I just always laugh and picture ll those people happily floating around in balloons way before any of that even happened.

@kyle857 Год назад

Floating and flying are not the same thing.

@decagamin5901 Год назад

@@kyle857 Yeah, floating is in water, flying is in air.

@kyle857 Год назад

@@decagamin5901 Incorrect. Things can float in gasses.

@decagamin5901 Год назад

@@kyle857 Shhhhh.

@Rafael-nz6pp Год назад

Makes sense. There was so much collaboration between so many pioneers in Europe. The time the american pioneers reached out, the aviation was already flourishing in Europe. Even FAI prize for first heavy than air machine was given to a French-Brazilian. Claiming a single place is the birth placeof aviation is at least, incorrect.

@odysseuslaertiades1528 Год назад

Well researched and nicely presented, very informative and entertaining at the same time. And your voice is pleasant to listen to.

@Parocha Год назад

I loved this video. Thanks for your industrious research.

@GIGABACHI Год назад

Brilliant work ! Your voice, accent and narrating tempo clicks together to make something as trivial as "balloons" a joy to watch. 👌🙂👍

@thundercactus Год назад

Can we take a moment to appreciate the German word for "racing" used within the context of an open ended balloon? "Wettfahrten"

@markignatiev7194 Год назад

Looking forward to all the upcoming lighter than air videos! Great topic!

@Caseytify Год назад

I look forward to the rest of the lighter than air series.

@johanvanzyl8479 Год назад

So Romantic. Nothing better than flying a balloon. Travelling at the speed of the wind, it is absolutely silent whilst the burners are not operated.

@thehillbillygamer2183 Год назад

Great video it's a rare treat for me to learn something new historically and I learned a few new things in this video most informative and might I say the English accent is the best for narration and Englishman is the best narrator I have to say

@812guitars Год назад

Great video! I appreciate the research you did on this. My father found it super interesting as well. Keep up the good work!

@Zodd83 Год назад

A genuine awesome video!

@CupcakesLanders Год назад

That was a fantastic bit of work, well done!

@matthewiskra771 Год назад

Thank you for this video on early balloons and dirigibles. As a fan of the airship, I look forward to your future videos on the subject. I personally find the history of the ZRS-3, AKA USS Los Angeles, one of the best examples of airship history as it has a long service life in the interwar period.

@blue_beephang-glider5417 Год назад

Fantastic! I am tired of rehashes of ww2 and jet age flying. I have always loved most the wood and fabric flight (Testomony is I now fly a powered hang-glider too) I look forward to all the airship and ww1 history videos you do. Thank You 🍺😎👍

@matteohetzy7599 Год назад

Another very interesting (and to my knowledge pretty unique, but I might be wrong) fact is that in Italy there had been for some time probably one of the very few examples ever of Balloons used for regular transportation. Specifically near Camaiore (near Viareggio) to the top of Apuan Alps in Tuscany(about 1 km horizontally and about 500m vertically), in the form of a hybrid between a cableway and a balloon. This was an idea of Alemanno Barsi, the owner of an hotel high in the mountain as a way to transport people (and potential customers) to high in the mountain near his own hotel, six at a time. The ascent from the seaside to the mountain top took about an hour as advertised but the balloon ropeway covered only last leg(about 1km) of the total 12km from the coast, the rest was done by road. Service started in August 1910 it was in service for 4 months and was destroyed by a storm in winter 1910.

@shannonwittman950 Год назад

In an adventurous situation which I think must've been experienced by many earlier balloonists, I once read of two enthusiasts who ascended in their beautiful balloon rising higher and higher. They were thrilled to look out across distant vistas seen by only a scant few in that era -- when they were surprised to feel themselves becoming light-headed. The next thing they knew, they had regained consciousness to find themselves much, much closer to terra firma. They were able to guide their balloon to a safe landing. I suspect theirs was a hot air balloon. When they lost consciousness, the fire they'd been tending simply dwindled so that the balloon gradually began to cool and descend. Lucky it did that and even more lucky that they awakened in time.

@lycossurfer8851 Год назад

Imagine what the first pilots must have felt like to see the world from the perspective of a bird

@hughie522 Год назад

This was fascinating. I can't wait for the next part.

@taftbarnett1156 Год назад

This is my favorite video of yours so far. I would love to see some other content like this, especially about rocketry

@deRNmEpRrMm 3 месяца назад

This is one of my favorite of your videos so far. Really great how many paintings and photographs you could find and historically assign to the stories you tell. The only thing I might have liked is a little music with such a long video, but there's probably reasons you don't do that. It's a nice departure from the usual aviation content on RU-vid though, and an interesting and important part of history. Thanks for your work!

@geoffreypiltz271 Год назад

Balloon Street in central Manchester is named after an ascent in a nearby recreation ground by James Sadler in 1785.

@mikecygk Год назад

Beautifully done. Just perfect.

@ABrit-bt6ce Год назад

Balloons are and always will be a "that's just wrong" sight.

@grahamhill8280 Год назад

So glad to see you working with Drachnifel on the Wildcat fighter airplane RU-vid. So lucky to be in the internet age and subscribe to both of you. Enjoying the balloons!

@DardanellesBy108 Год назад

I’m very interested in the history of ballooning and airships. I’m looking forward to the next videos. Thanks!

@Erichder5te Год назад

Thank you so much for this great Introduction to Balloons. You can show modern Developments in RC Airship.

@davincisghost9228 Год назад

Lovely work. When you do the Airships would it be possible to give a little extra detail as to how they learnt to steer them? I understand Eckener was a sailing champion prior to his involvement and it was this knowledge that helped enormously in airship effectiveness.

@BA-gn3qb Год назад

I like how making another video, it Ballooned into this one.

@vjabonador1067 7 месяцев назад

This is very fascinating. I hope there would be a follow-up video or videos on this topic. I've binge-watched a lot of your videos and I find the way you present and discuss the subject matter to be clear, easy to follow and highly educational.

@bernjoernvanhoeck5883 Год назад

I like this kind of video and basically always like long videos where the topic is presented in detail and where there is enough time to go into details. Happy to have more of those kind of videos.

@doneB830 Год назад

I have been a aviation enthusiast all my life now 60 and I never looked at the history of balloons, this is a wonderfull production that I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you.

@normajohnson6352 Год назад

This is an absolutely amazing (Hopefully) series. I knew a tiny bit, but this has to be an eye-opener for those that thought manned flight began in 1903.