Episode 88 They Hid in the Clouds: The Airships History Buried
Questioning Everything
- Published
- October 2, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 31m
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- Last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
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Summary
110 years ago tonight, a German Zeppelin burned over Potters Bar, England. Thousands watched it fall… and not one photograph of it falling has ever surfaced.Tonight on Questioning Everything, we go up.Airships were flying under power in 1852, fifty-one years before Kitty Hawk. The Graf Zeppelin flew more than a million miles and never injured a single pas…
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110 years ago tonight, a German Zeppelin burned over Potters Bar, England. Thousands watched it fall… and not one photograph of it falling has ever surfaced.Tonight on Questioning Everything, we go up.Airships were flying under power in 1852, fifty-one years before Kitty Hawk. The Graf Zeppelin flew more than a million miles and never injured a single passenger. The U.S. Navy flew aircraft carriers in the sky. So why were we taught the airship was a failure?We'll dig into:🎈 The ships they don't
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