Interesting thing to note is that the dislike ratio is about 1 like for every 2 dislikes.
People were expecting to see the fiery explosion like with the Hindenburg, and then they dislike the video because the Crash wasn't spectacular enough for their frankly sub-mammalian instinct of wanting to see people die or stuff explode.
When we consider that this video is now the 3rd most viewed video on youtube when you search "Airships", behind two Flash videos; And we also consider that the first informative video is by James May who is more popular then Airships are in general and he's way past a bunch of minecraft videos...
Then we can be fairly certain that a lot of people who have never even heard of the Airlander or Hybrid Airships are seeing it for the first time.
And while it is an embarrassment for the industry as a whole that the AIrlander 10 crashed on it's second test flight, most people don't know that.
And there is a bright side...
A huge amount of people, frankly a lot of self absorbed people with too much TMZ on the brain, who don't care about world events or life saving technology, have just associated Airlanders/Hybrid Airships in their minds with boring crashes...
Think about that.
That might actually be one of the best things ever for the Airship industry. It's a reverse Hindenburg. This could actually be the biggest blessing in disguise for the Airship industry as a whole.
My current theory is that it was pilot error that caused the crash, if so, I'm certain they will never make the same mistake again.
Playing around in my Sky Tug in X-plane I remember actually killing the pilot one time doing a very similar maneuver, hitting the ground gondola first like in the video. In my limited experience it's a one timer, you make that mistake once, you never make it again (assuming you survive, and thankfully the test pilots did.)
But in a lot of ways, had the crash of the Airlander 10 not have been as bad as it was it would have never "qualified" as a crash. Leading to people clicking on it because they want to see a train wreak. On top of this they all come away disappointed and upset they didn't get to see anyone die or stuff explode.
Some of the top comments read:
"The most gentle crash humanity has seen" -Gyrolox 915 likes
another read:
"Oh my god!
And while it is an embarrassment for the industry as a whole that the AIrlander 10 crashed on it's second test flight, most people don't know that.
And there is a bright side...
A huge amount of people, frankly a lot of self absorbed people with too much TMZ on the brain, who don't care about world events or life saving technology, have just associated Airlanders/Hybrid Airships in their minds with boring crashes...
Think about that.
That might actually be one of the best things ever for the Airship industry. It's a reverse Hindenburg. This could actually be the biggest blessing in disguise for the Airship industry as a whole.
My current theory is that it was pilot error that caused the crash, if so, I'm certain they will never make the same mistake again.
Playing around in my Sky Tug in X-plane I remember actually killing the pilot one time doing a very similar maneuver, hitting the ground gondola first like in the video. In my limited experience it's a one timer, you make that mistake once, you never make it again (assuming you survive, and thankfully the test pilots did.)
But in a lot of ways, had the crash of the Airlander 10 not have been as bad as it was it would have never "qualified" as a crash. Leading to people clicking on it because they want to see a train wreak. On top of this they all come away disappointed and upset they didn't get to see anyone die or stuff explode.
Some of the top comments read:
"The most gentle crash humanity has seen" -Gyrolox 915 likes
another read:
"Oh my god!
That crash was so slow! Do you think someone might have spilled their coffee?" -Kunzite Universe 1112 likes
Comments like this are gonna leave a lasting impression in peoples minds, especially when we consider how early we are in the development of Hybrid Airships as a viable industry.
It may just be that what this industry needed most was a crash like this, at this moment. The Hindenburg set in stone in peoples minds Airships Crashes = Massive explosion, huge death, unsafe. This has set in peoples minds Hybrid Airship Crashes = Boring, nobody dies, super safe.
That's exactly what we want people to think.
It may just be that what this industry needed most was a crash like this, at this moment. The Hindenburg set in stone in peoples minds Airships Crashes = Massive explosion, huge death, unsafe. This has set in peoples minds Hybrid Airship Crashes = Boring, nobody dies, super safe.
That's exactly what we want people to think.
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