Chuck Bryant

I had no idea they were inside the blimp.

I find that much more claustrophobic.

It was enormous.

So that Goodyear blimp, it depends on which one you're talking about.

I've seen that the Hindenburg was more than 800 feet long, almost as long as the Titanic.

I think it's like three times as long as the 747 and twice as tall.

Yeah, it's really impressive.

One of the other things I saw too is that it had a gas capacity, so of the hydrogen it held, of 7,062,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas.

And to put that in perspective, that's the gas equivalent of 7,062,001 cubic foot bags of topsoil that you get at the garden center.

That's how much hydrogen gas it held.

Yeah.

So this was a pretty impressive ship for anybody to see.

But it also was not like the first of its kind.

It was the point that they had reached in the development of dirigibles up to that point, which had really been kind of going for...

almost 100 years at that point.

I think it was in 1850 when the whole dirigible craze kicked off in Paris, thanks to our friend Pierre Julien.

Mm-hmm.

Can't sneeze at that.

He also traveled 17 miles around in his first flight of his airship, which is, again, nothing to sneeze at.

He was puttering around at six miles an hour.