How the $21 million Goodyear blimp flies

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How the $21 million Goodyear blimp flies #shorts

[@Void-st2vu]

No point of using a drone when you can use a $500,000 camera attached to a $21 million dollar blimp.

[@johnl.7754]

The free advertisement for Goodyear worth a lot more then it cost.

[@lkpxml8124]

@@johnl.7754 it is not free.

[@CMarkem]

@@lkpxml8124 it's definatly paid itself over in the advertising revenue

[@emmakai2243]

It's a billboard for Goodyear for big events...same concept as someone flying a banner over a college football game. Camera angles is just a bonus.

[@marquamfurniture]

The Goodyear logo on a tiny drone doesn't have the same impact.

[@erichurst2496]

I got to fly on one of the blimps 20 years ago. I asked the pilot how he started. He was a helicopter pilot in Desert Storm and when he got out he went home to Akron and was making tires at the Goodyear plant. He saw the posting for a blimp pilot while at lunch and Shazam!!!

[@DoctorSkillz]

Well what happened after he saw the posting?

[@Sergio-kd9wm]

@@DoctorSkillz he met Shazam

[@phoneusandfroboof829]

@@Sergio-kd9wm shiiiiit thats cool but thats kind of a lack luster super hero to meet dont ya think🤣🤣

[@leeyu8821]

😮‍💨it ain't that easy these days no more...

[@enzoocampoiii2881]

The most american thing i have ever heared dessert storm helicopter pilot went home and got a job at a tire factory and became a blimp pilot for nascar lol.

[@Growmetheus]

What does it take? Only answer you gave: “pilots are trained for 6mo-1yr”. Actual answer: you will never fly the blimp regardless if your license. The pilots choose their students, and rarely at that.

[@sushimidnight9539]

Well there’s another story here about a good year pilot seeing an ad about it so I know you definitely just guessed that

[@MajorJakas]

I'm glad I didn't have to read very many comments before thos was pointed out.

[@sushimidnight9539]

@@CamelThief it furthers my agenda.

[@kimbrey65]

I thought the Goodyear Blimp wasn't flying so this was surprising to see.

[@endoftheline774]

This footage is from a 2019 Video by Business Insider, only with a new Voiceover.

[@GabrielGarcia-300]

I've seen it fly over Maricopa AZ. Some people didn't even know what it was. This was summer of 2021

[@paullalli7774]

It's slow. But that does NOT mean easy, you still have to think ahead and know -when- to do something in reaction.

[@mydailyruteen]

I see it all the time driving home from work in LA

[@invaderraven1]

There are 3 of them flying right now

[@joshuauriarte452]

This blimp hasn't been flying for 100 years, it's been for less. Like 10-20 years. These blimps are retired after a certain amount of time due to the material either stretching to much or having multiple patches.

[@juliesonnenblume]

thank goodness. was already wondering why no one else commented that!

[@abacaxifamily]

Actually there was a Goodyear blimp in 1911 already. It’s meant to be Goodyear blimps for more than 100 years flying but not this particular one.

[@joshuauriarte452]

@@abacaxifamily Not exactly, they werent running in WII or even after. There was a long stopping point for the good year blimp due to materials maintenance and so on. But they did make target blimps for the US military.

[@abacaxifamily]

@@joshuauriarte452 you still didn’t understand what it meant

[@joshuauriarte452]

@@abacaxifamily yeah I do. The whole blimp system has been running for a total of 100 years, but that wouldn't be true if there was a 20-30 year gap.

[@mikehilbert9349]

Has, "the" Goodyear blimp been flying for over 100 years or has a Goodyear blimp been flying for over 100 years?

[@hajimm3r570]

Nope this one, never ever touched the ground

[@KellingtonDorkswafer]

@@hajimm3r570 when a crew member dies, they just throw the body into the nearest body of water and then a highly trained replacement parachutes in to through the open side door. Truly amazing stuff. Here's to another century!

[@MajorJakas]

The funny thing about Blimps, is that they themselves don't actually fly, they actually just make the whole world decrease it's altitude.

[@dusannestorovic5699]

@@MajorJakas just how aeroplanes dont actually move when flying, they just go up and wait for the earth to spin below and then land

[@timdeathly]

@@dusannestorovic5699 yeah that ain't true homie. It instead moves between space and time to move, using gravity as a propeller. Going up 0.0002 millionth if a second into the future. After that they are able to fly in any direction.

[@qleverone]

Id do this for free for life if I could. I do not know what my fascination with blimps is but this is awesome. The fact it's been around now for a full century is more than enough to impressive and inspire. What a job!

[@nanolog522]

The Goodyear Blimp is not built by Goodyear, but by a German company, Zeppelin Friedrichshafen. They operate a couple of blimps for passenger flights, so you can actually fly on it.

[@restingfishface]

It was the coolest thing in the world seeing it fly over as a kid and I'm pretty sure I'd still be just as astonished as an adult

[@leighannesmith9483]

The Goodyear blimp is in my hometown of pompano beach Florida and sometimes you see the blimp flying around Broward county Florida.

[@IberianCraftsman]

we need to recover blimps, Hindenburg was just an unfortunate mistake, nowadays we could add oxygen sensors and ways to eliminate any possible oxygen inside, so the Hydrogen would be safe.

[@jaimejimenez4223]

And to protect against terrorist attacks?🤔

[@JasonB808]

Fun Facts: While the Good Year Blimp is called a Blimp. It’s an Airship and not a Blimp. The difference is in a Blimp, it has a non rigid balloon holding the helium vs Airship is a Rigid structure that holds the Helium. Airships don’t fly or hover. They float just like a party balloon. This is what is know as lighter than air flight though the flight part is a misnomer. It’s always floating. It uses directional turbines to move around.

[@Homelessbillionaire]

Life Is Change. Growth Is Optional. Choose Wisely.

[@kindbud]

The lights on the Goodyear blimp read ice cubes a pimp

[@marqueeviveiros8412]

That’s awesome 👏🏼 team work 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@justskateandcars9650]

And it read “ice cube’s a pimp”

[@kenrichmond1215]

That’s your wife . That joke never gets old

[@gitknownmedia3655]

Flying advertisement 💯 about as eye catching as it gets

[@jazz-axy9924]

I forgot blimps existed

[@ThomasNoToothpaste]

I have actually met one of the pilots in this video. Those people have a really great job and we got to watch the airship be filled with helium. Really cool.

[@chinsotearaboth2160]

Kids watching this be like: YOOOO DAT THANG IS FROM DA GTA

[@winter_gamin]

100 years and still has a big boom win win :)

[@Coyote9smilespergallon]

I used to watch the blimp park every week growing up in Pompano Florida always wanting to ride in it

[@angryjeep6949]

this blimp flew over my school on the last day and I'm not even kidding

[@nepi7847]

Davieee, how you doin'?

[@cberna78]

You lied.. the Pilgrim which was the name of the first Goodyear blimp was launched in 1925. Quit looking at the wiki page for the Goodyear Blimp and seeing 1918, which was the first Navy blimp. Goodyear Blimps have their own designation called the Goodyear Type AD. Class C Blimps, designated in 1918 were used by the US Navy only.

[@PyroCraft_]

seems simple enough, they got the PFD and the things that planes have in their cockpit

[@gigachad9038]

Saw the good year blimp flying to a Steelers game while I was doing flight lessons.

[@havfunwithit]

The first Goodyear blimp was flown in 1925. Dozens have been used since that time.

[@ryan00756748]

In NC I have saw the blimp flying above it's huge you can tell it's the Goodyear blimp when it hovers over it's very cool

[@atom095]

i was today years old when i realized that the good year blimp served a purpose other than advertising

[@sterbenxercy45]

I like how even the controller is outfitted with carbon fiber 🤣

[@mydogbrian4814]

- If you notice the pilot controls on the blimp haven't changed much in 100 years.

[@adolfeichman9919]

Still prefer to fly in the hindenpeter or Petercopter.

[@jay2swaggz]

My uncle worked for Goodyear for a few years and he went all over the country

[@gavinczeciuk]

I live right near the Goodyear blimp hanger and it can fit for blimps in there it is so big that it has its own atmosphere.

[@GaryGohlke-ng7uf]

This one is actually a zeppelin

[@epicdan2445]

Imagine if a British soldier time traveld and saw it

[@WPJ77]

Without fail, this gets shot down every gta session

[@anamethatisntfinished1192]

WE REMAKING BLOONS TOWER DEFENSE WITH THIS ONE🗣️🔥🔥🔥❗️

[@TheLiamster]

I actually saw the Goodyear Blimp fly over my city a few months ago and it was amazing

[@tempakilla]

Can't be that amazing.

[@Thehermderm]

You know the Goodyear ceo has f*cked on there..🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

[@staringcorgi6475]

Fun fact technically it isn’t a blimp any more

[@niklasfabricius5530]

I saw a Goodyear blimp once in Germany, an hour later the news broke that it crashed and the pilot died, but he managed to save the three passengers lives who were on board

[@SIM-A1]

Me just destroying them for fun in gta

[@MistaGabagool]

Damn, trained from 6 months to a year?? Those are some young pilots

[@S550STANG]

That is no longer a 100 year old blimp. Show me something that's 100 years old that hasn't been changed. I'll wait

[@BeKozTube]

This is what a drone looked like 100 years ago kids!

[@Cryptic141]

them blimp has a pits stop crew dang

[@dusannestorovic5699]

"even saw the lights on the Goodyear blimp, and it read "Ice Cube's a pimp!"

[@jamesonhickman4247]

I was about to say this lol

[@BaberhamLincoln1]

Other little known fact….The Goodyear blimp said Ice Cubes a pimp

[@rogerdodgerxd]

Now that I think about it, I don't think I seen a blimp flying in like the last 5 yrs

[@watermeloan_1135]

Fun fact. There's only like 26 or so blimps and only half are active

[@robertramos1297]

Imagine a weaponized one hovering at you

[@FonicsSuck]

Flying for 100 years?! Dang that's impressive!

[@averagewehraboo1509]

In Germany you can actually ride this goodyear blimp at the zeppelin works but its really expensive

[@chrismckee5113]

Oh no! The blimps only weakness. A slight breeze

[@sownheard]

Overpriced DRONE 😂

[@juntingiee2602]

i mean its basically free advertisement also a good attraction for audience

[@tibbers3755]

Except it was around long before drones have

[@jeffreygosselin7576]

I like the GOODRICH blimp way better!!!

[@UncleTequila]

It's all fun and games until the oppressor Mk2 comes around

[@squid_shit9748]

Me with no experience flying a blimp in gta 🤪

[@subtoredwood]

This is really cool! I never thought about how they got those shots, or even the people inside the blimp. Great video!

[@Brutalismus_]

I remember seeing this blimp when I was a little kid at elementary school in Northern VA. This mustve been in the very early 2000s, I totally forgot about this memory until I saw this

[@LukasLobmann]

This one is actually a semi rigid airship made by the German Zeppelin company and not a blimp.

[@rubenyerkanyan]

It’s worth 21 million dollars and it only takes 10 bullets to destroy it.

[@SydneySighs]

I love blimps and airships

[@Cataclave]

I didn’t know I wanted to fly the Goodyear blimp before

[@Eyewokkk]

Now it’s just in Cali haven’t moved for like 3 years

[@scotsman242424]

200 dollar drone could do that, huge saving

[@fuki_slam]

I thought the blimp was simply to promote adverts in a flashy manner. I had no idea it collected aerial views for events.

[@nahjustaverage]

At first it sounded like you said it has been flying constantly for 100 yrs

[@damimemelim6954]

I seen the blimp today flying around downtown Jacksonville

[@pjs-aviation-central8275]

This is kind of cool I just stumbled across the short because I live in Florida in the St. Lucie County area and I see the good year blimp come over all the time and I think it’s really cool and I just now found out that it’s $21 million👍🏻

[@dancingwolfcraft5751]

You’ll never be complete until you fly the Goodyear blimp

[@lamintontea4419]

My father worked as ground crew on the blimps for 13 or so years as well as my uncle (not blood related) who was actually regarded as the best blimp pilot in the world which is nice.

[@grandpepe8902]

It was flying all over tulsa Oklahoma for the PGA tour just like a week ago

[@Homelessbillionaire]

Enjoy These Moments Now, Because They Don’T Last Forever.

[@joseskoolii2761]

Oh shit these things made out of Helium???

[@WattsGemini323]

Docked in carson torrance area close to the 405!

[@FlowPlusNRG]

First thought: Bloons Tower Defense 🤣

[@ericlakota1847]

I never knew the footage was filmed from the blimps always thought the blimp just flew over for advertisement and just because it's awsome I use to see it flying up and down coast from Hampton Beach to cape cod once in wile and planes with adds on them back in 80s erly 90s

[@muhammadfaizkhawarizmi4303]

so this is what it costs everytime matto does blimp strats

[@Cock_Diesel]

So basically a drone with redeye

[@rica_vall6032]

Man when I was a kid I remember seeing the Goodyear blimp from my school playground I would just stare at it wondering what's it like to fly in one.

[@MisterRorschach90]

This is where all that insanely expensive b&h gear goes. The video switchers that cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[@danny.b3]

You have to go to school for twice as long to fly a blimp than it takes to be a cop.

[@TheWolli1234]

You can get a much cheaper atomic blimp if you just call them

[@zynxzyTech]

Was that in Darlington when the race happened

[@pamelaraney4654]

I live about 10 miles from where the blimp lives.

[@ash44266]

Lets not forget that this was built in akron ohio.give credit when due

[@T6Jacob]

I saw one in elementary school during recess.

[@FonicsSuck]

I'm disappointed that the side of the blimp does not, in fact, say "Ice Cube's a pimp"

[@No-vy2je]

Yeah no doubt this is only the $33,000 and 17th time that I've heard this and seen it you created nfts thanks a lot

[@williamrockwell9001]

I always wondered how it gets from place to place. Say they have 100 miles to go...I would guess they fly. For 2,000 miles do they fly or empty the thing and put it on a truck?

[@duraluminmoomin1157]

This Goodyear 'blimp' is actually a Zeppelin NT, which (unlike the old blimps) has framework inside the balloon. Not sure about this one, but the one that went to Japan flew part of the way, but the last part of the journey was by cargo ship- still inflated.

[@majinbuukid]

Exploding it in Gta is more interesting than the airship

[@parkerbanken1831]

The camera probably wouldn’t cost so much if it wasn’t made of carbon fiber

[@ZaFlatGyro]

I forgot blimps existed lol

[@jimmybuffet4970]

Saw it over the 2022 PGA Championship. It was cool!

[@ltagames01]

I saw it for the first time couple of weeks ago in Toronto

[@JakeSkate42_]

I feel like drones would be slightly cheaper

[@alistermckean3088]

Saw is flying over Fullerton skate park saturday