Selects: How Blimps Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After newsreels captured the Hindenburg erupting in fire in 1937, the promising development of airship aviation was cut short. Today companies and militaries are taking another look at blimps and the unique qualities that may revive them. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Hi friends. Have you ever flown into Blimp?
0:34.0	I haven't.
0:35.1	It's one of my goals.
0:36.4	And on August 28, 2014 I hadn't either.
0:39.2	But that's what we talk about and more in the episode, How Blimp's Work.
0:44.4	Coming up right now.
0:46.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:53.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:00.8	I'm Josh Clark.
1:01.8	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's with us so that makes this stuff you should know.
1:06.5	How you doing?
1:07.5	I'm good man.
1:08.5	This is, I'm excited about this one.
1:09.5	Oh, are you?
1:10.5	Sure.
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