The huge hydrogen-filled airship was carrying 97 passengers at the time, of which 37 lost their lives...
Really not bad odds, compared with most airliner crashes.
Posted on 05/21/2021 6:58:02 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
Previously unseen video footage has been helping scientists learn more about the fate of the airship.
One of the 20th Century's most infamous disasters, the destruction of the Hindenburg - a large German passenger airship - occurred following its arrival at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey in May 1937.
The huge hydrogen-filled airship was carrying 97 passengers at the time, of which 37 lost their lives when the vessel inexplicably burst into flames and crashed to the ground, bringing with it any remaining confidence in airship travel in general.
Although it is obvious that the gas inside the ship provided the fuel for the blaze, the exact reason why the airship went up in flames in the first place has remained a topic of debate for decades.
One of the most popular theories suggests that the fire started when the buildup of static electricity on the airship's exterior came into contact with a special type of 'dope' ( a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum-impregnated cellulose ) that had been painted all over the canvas.
It wouldn't have taken much of a fire to set the hydrogen inside burning and for the blaze to consume the whole ship.
Fast-forward to the present day and now new clues have surfaced in the form of previously unseen video footage captured by a bystander who had been standing at a different location to the cameras that recorded the most widely distributed clips.
Thanks to this new angle, experts have been able to learn more about how the fire spread.
(Excerpt) Read more at unexplained-mysteries.com ...
So, what did you think of the new footage?
“How could unseen footage just now be found?”
It was NOT “found”. Schenck’s family had it for decades and offered it to the public. People do KEEP videos or recordings away from the public.
I personally know a relative who videotaped bigfoot crossing the railroad50 feet away from them around 1995. Why is it not on Youtube? For fear of ridicule. I also know someone in my family who has a private video of the twin towers 2, exploding from a different angle. No one has it. He was working at an adjacent building at that time as an intern for a Tv station and he had the camera. He rarely lets anyone view it as it is very painful to hear and watch.
Video tape, digital video, film video...
In the 1960s and early '70s I shot movie film with both 8mm and 16mm cameras, and starting in the 1970s with reel to reel black & white video tape to Beta cams and VHS video recorders to digital tape, and no they are not the same, at all.
And all “tapes”, film or digital, have to roll to be seen!
PING
Hydrogen has a Atomic Number of 1.
It passes through most anything.
Tech at that time could only do the best they could to slow loss of...it leaked.
The huge hydrogen-filled airship was carrying 97 passengers at the time, of which 37 lost their lives...
Really not bad odds, compared with most airliner crashes.
Didn’t you watch the movie? It was sabotaged
Excellent. Maybe now it’ll shut those kids up who keep bleating about heavier-than-air flight. Like that’s ever going to happen.
+7
Thanks TN.
It is on this weeks Nova if you want to see the footage. They explore the Hindenburg disaster. Like Herb Morrisons, unfortunately, it doesn’t capture the actual beginning of the explosion, but it is far more dramatic then the one we are accustomed too.
Pique!
Good summary. The PBS video of the film was like a sequence of Pawn Stars. Nothing new revealed.
I know!
It still blew up.
You’ll have to watch this week’s upcoming episode of Nova to see more.
Neat info on old films. Kind of crazy how Kodak used symbols to mark the date a film was manufactured. Sort of wonder why they just didn’t imprint the date instead.
Well, perhaps I dont have the “expertise of these “experts”. I guess I have known for over fifty years that hydrogen is really flammable and that it doesn’t take much of a spark to light it up. I could be wrong, maybe it takes some kind of special circumstance, maybe the planets have to be aligned just right.
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