Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang (airship) Chitty Bang Bang was an airship built for the 1968 film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". It was intended to represent the airship of Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria. Although fictional in inspiration, it was a fully functional flying airship. Vulgaria, and the airship, is drawn from Roald Dahl's screenplay for the film, rather than Ian Fleming's original book. The semi-rigid airship, whose appearance was designed by Ken Adam, was an approximate replica of a 1904 Lebaudy airship. The envelope was symmetrical fore-and-aft and short and deep compared to typical rigid airships, with pointed ends above the centre
Baron Munchausen popular and much-quoted catchphrase, and by early 1933 "The Jack Pearl Show" was the second most popular series on American radio (after Eddie Cantor's program). Pearl attempted to adapt his portrayal to film in "Meet the Baron" in 1933, playing a modern character mistaken for the Baron, but the film was not a success. Pearl's popularity gradually declined between 1933 and 1937, though he attempted to revive the Baron character several times before ending his last radio series in 1951. For a 1972 Caedmon Records recording of some of the stories, Peter Ustinov voiced the Baron. A review in "The