Thanks for posting. Amazing that this footage was overlooked.
How could unseen footage just now be found?
Footage shows it was a smaller manatee than expected.
FUBAR
Umm...from the burned fuel to the unburned fuel?
Fuel consumed, fire out.
Really? A bystander was shooting video in 1937?
The reporter must be young. There was no video in 1937, just film. I see that mistake frequently on the internet as in “rare video of New York from 1901.” Uh no.
My dad saw the Hindenburg crash. My grandfather took the family to NAS Lakehurst to watch the Hindenburg land.
Excellent post...
No, it doesn't. The idea that the doped fabric caught fire from static or galvanic discharge has been around for donkey's years. The only difference is these guys are claiming that the ground lines figured in. But doped fabric has bee around since the unpowered a/c of the late 19th Century (e.g., Otto Lillienthal). It already was "old tech" when the Wright brothers used it and its burning characteristics are long since well documented. If would NOT have burned that fiercely except in the presence of some accelerant, which means they're both theories in search of the theoretical hydrogen leak that no one has yet found a shred of evidence of. No, not even being out of trim because that could have been a slow leak of ballast water at the nose that went unnoticed so long as she kept her airspeed up.
This schlock shed new light on the Hindenburg disaster like Jeraldo Rivera shed new light on the hoarding proclivities of Al Capone.
They spend most of their time documenting meaningless minutia. Don't waste your 60 minutes.
hopefully, we can finally solve this mystery. the safety of the commercial dirigible industry hangs in the balance.
flr
Great find. It’s noted that Orson Welles actually LISTENED to the Herb Morrison “oH THE HUMANITY” recording MULTIPLE TIMES to get the right dramatic effect for the recording of War of the Worlds.
PING
Didnât 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.
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.
It still blew up.
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 didnât 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.