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07/05/2024

🚨 New episode alert! 🚨

Part One of a two-part look at the life and work of Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont is out now!

There are few more colourful characters than Alberto, the darling of fin-de-siècle Paris and a brave, innovative airman.

In this episode, we trace Alberto’s early life and career from the coffee plantation of Brazil to the skies over Paris in his first balloons and airships.

Links below 👇🏻

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/up-ship-the-airship-history-podcast/id1728600562?i=1000654799255

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ryx3khb3rzcFCAJSKEqAq?si=6-jFlQNGT4u84hxrvhfvFA

Or wherever you get your podcasts!

30/04/2024

BONUS EPISODE - It was great to interview Thibault Proux from Flying Whales, one of the companies making the biggest strides towards bringing large airships back to our skies.

Thibault has been there almost since the beginning.

We talk about the challenges of building new aircraft and developing an entirely new industry, about the problems ‘load exchange’ poses for airship designers and the solutions Flying Whales have developed, and about how you should follow your passion!

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/up-ship-the-airship-history-podcast/id1728600562?i=1000654017279

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2HpHiXG55hELrIRAZW5ctv?si=K8niYwlqQMS3To9oTQj8sg

Or wherever you get your podcasts!

23/04/2024

🚨Episode 3 - Taking to the Skies is out now!! 🚨

On this episode we look at the history of military ballooning from the French Revolution to WW1.

We also look at the first powered flight and attempts to build an airship that could actually be steered.

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/up-ship-the-airship-history-podcast/id1728600562?i=1000653312509

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vRzptH8mImDWPSmka7KLX?si=TkegHaDIQAWZ5ZOvkwabwA

Or wherever you get your podcasts!

12/04/2024

🚨 Episode 2 - The Dream of Flight is out NOW 🚨

We look at the very first depictions of flight and the early days of ballooning, including the first ever aviation fatalities.

The courage of these early aviation pioneers was absolutely astounding.

Links below 👇🏻

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/up-ship-the-airship-history-podcast/id1728600562?i=1000652251038

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rEFn2uqKjiTHK3TGMHVZZ?si=tQt5g_IATmuPZQx0Yq7E4A

Or wherever you get your podcasts!

26/03/2024

🚨🚨PODCAST LAUNCH DAY 🚨🚨

‘Episode 1 - Airships: The Once and Future Kings’ is out NOW.

We look at why large airships have disappeared from our skies, why that matters and why you should be interested in airship history.

Links below 👇🏻

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/up-ship-the-airship-history-podcast/id1728600562?i=1000650384376

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wQUEBe5vcyuwD9EqQvQXC?si=CGNBXToPTlWxjavATdtY1A&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A1emqnUAUCAFrCrD2SK8Vhh

Or wherever you get your podcasts!

20/02/2024

This is one of my favourite airship photos of all time. We look at it now and see both the horse-drawn plough and the rigid airship as old, vanished technologies.

But at the time, in 1930, this photo would have shown the old, traditional ways of life meeting the brand new, ultra-cutting edge of aviation technology - the R101.

11/02/2024

The Goodyear Corporation is closely associated with airships. The first airship they used for advertising was the Pilgrim, launched in 1925. She was also the first airship to be inflated with helium rather than flammable hydrogen. The gondola is on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center jn Chantilly, VA.

20/01/2024

There are three types of airship.

Non-rigids (also called blimps) have no internal structure and keep their shape through the pressure of the gas inside their hull.

Semi-rigid airships are a step further than non-rigids; they have a metal keel that runs along the base of the hull, which distributes the load.

Rigid airships have an internal metal frame which keeps the airship’s shape, while gas is stored in large ‘gas bags’ within the frame. This means they can be very large indeed.

Here endeth today’s lesson…

11/11/2023

11th November is Armistice Day in the United Kingdom. It is a day when we remember those who have died in conflicts since 1914. Today, please keep in your thoughts the 48 airship officers and men of the Royal Naval Air Service who were killed defending their country in World War One.

01/11/2023

I’ve always been a little fascinated by how weird Frank Piasecki’s Helistat looked, which is one reason I was so thrilled to get my hands on a piece of the outer cover a few years back. The hull is from a former US Navy blimp. Scroll to see the piece I have and the type of airship it came from…

28/10/2023

The glorious Graf Zeppelin - the most celebrated, storied airship of them all. Which is your favourite airship?

25/10/2023

Welcome to Up Ship!

I’m Nick Rogers, your captain on this long-haul journey through the history of the most incredible aircraft ever built.

Stay tuned for more details about the podcast and, of course, for episode one! Coming soon…

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