This song is really using the disaster to castigate some suspect Imperial British values, but the real fault lay with the badly managed comittee style engineering, and lack of quality control... Barnes Wallis R100 (the other ship) managed quite well, and flew to Canada.
@flytomars Indeed, I'm familiar with the piece, and I'm a fan of Chris Judge Smith. In isolation here on youtube though, it could seem misleading, particularly as it is popularly seen as a technical tragedy, rather than an operational and fabrication one. At the time people were quick to blame anyone but the people actually responsible for the talented individuals who died in that crash.
Certainly no disrespect to Chris Judge Smith, who put detailed effort and research into this project.
It really wasn't just Lord Thompson's fault, the whole setup was suspect, the communications very poor, the original design was overweight, and the wrong dope was used, the ship in concept and streamlining was a classic, just a badly executed one.
Wonderful! I didn't know that one. I was looking for chris's song "1919".... What is the name of the mentioned album? Curlys Airships?
You could have mentioned Arthur Brown in the tags as well.....
Thank you for sharing this.
InuitAldebaran 2 years ago
You're right. I just did :)
The name of the album is Curly's Airships. If you look at my other videos, you can find the unedited version of this.
litzlitz 2 years ago
It's great!
MiszczBetonmen 2 years ago
This song is really using the disaster to castigate some suspect Imperial British values, but the real fault lay with the badly managed comittee style engineering, and lack of quality control... Barnes Wallis R100 (the other ship) managed quite well, and flew to Canada.
welshmagic 5 years ago
@welshmagic
This is just a 10 minutes snippet from a (2 hours??) songstory. All you say above is mentioned there, every bit of it, highly recommended :)
flytomars 1 year ago
@flytomars Indeed, I'm familiar with the piece, and I'm a fan of Chris Judge Smith. In isolation here on youtube though, it could seem misleading, particularly as it is popularly seen as a technical tragedy, rather than an operational and fabrication one. At the time people were quick to blame anyone but the people actually responsible for the talented individuals who died in that crash.
Certainly no disrespect to Chris Judge Smith, who put detailed effort and research into this project.
welshmagic 1 year ago
It really wasn't just Lord Thompson's fault, the whole setup was suspect, the communications very poor, the original design was overweight, and the wrong dope was used, the ship in concept and streamlining was a classic, just a badly executed one.
welshmagic 5 years ago
Another surprising treat !!! Good job on this !!
mchafen 5 years ago