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30th Apr 2024

BONUS - Interview with Thibault Proux of Flying Whales

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. Flying Whales are developing what will be the largest aircraft in the world - the LCA60T, 200 metres long, 50 metres wide and capable of carrying 60 tons of cargo to areas of the world with little to no infrastructure. Thibault has been there almost since the beginning. We talk about the challenges both of building new aircraft and of developing effectively 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 always follow your passion!

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About the Podcast

Up Ship! The Airship History Podcast
Welcome to Up Ship! The Airship History Podcast. I'm Nick Rogers and I will be your captain on this long-haul flight through the fascinating history of the most awe-inspiring and ethereal aircraft ever conceived – the airship.

We will navigate from the earliest days of airships, through the violent days of the First World War into the Golden Age of the great airships of the 1920s and 30s, and beyond.

We'll fly around the world on the Graf Zeppelin, travel to the North Pole with Roald Amundsen, escort World War 2 convoys in US Navy airships and much, much more. And of course, we will examine in the depth the tragic crashes that bedevilled airship history, such as the Hindenburg Disaster.

On our journey we will encounter courageous pilots, crazy inventors, ambitious politicians, visionary engineers; a whole cast of colourful characters. We'll look at how airships influenced the way we travel now, and at the companies trying to bring them back into regular use.

Subscribe now as we voyage back to a time when giant airships ruled the skies!

Up Ship! The Airship History Podcast is produced by Story Circle LLC.

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