Interesting. Another piece of the puzzle. Remember that the big highly visible flames are not from hydrogen as much as they are from the aluminum powder and lacquer mixture used to “dope” the cloth skin.
The disaster is easy to explain:
2 H2 + O2 => 2 H2O plus a whole lot of energy in a very easy to start reaction.
I thought Mythbusters solved this 16 years ago?
https://www.discovery.com/shows/mythbusters/episodes/hindenburg-mystery
Hard to believe it wasn’t climate change...
Just don’t let Lucy Preston go back and rescue a passenger who is not supposed to survive.
You mean this wasn’t Trumps fault?!
BTW, unlike First World War era Zeppelins, the Hindenburg was designed to use helium. But only the USA had a lot of helium and FDR considered it a strategic recourse. So no sale to Nazi Germany.
But Hitler felt he needed the PR of the world's largest airship, so he ordered it to go ahead with hydrogen. And it made several trips with no mishaps.
So a spark in the center fuel tank?
Static electric shock, in a nutshell. A little more complex than that, but like touching something that is more grounded than you.
Was there something unique about this particular landing?
In other words, why had this kind of accident not happened before?
Were hydrogen leaks that rare?
Can we look forward to being passed by blazing hydrogen powered cars on our local expressways?
Why is the subject buried so far down in the narrative? Why can’t people who write put the subject right into the first sentence or paragraph and fill in the fluff later? PS: It’s been know for decades that it was static electricity that set off the explosion.
Can anyone here listen to radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s eyewitness account of the disaster without thinking about Les Nessman?
I enjoy reading the research of intelligent scientists as opposed to the propaganda of democrat party “scientists”.
Um, this episode aired in 2021. They report it like it just happened. Lousy article? Lazy writer?
Hard to understand how greekreporter.com is so out of touch, considering this thing I learned about recently (internet). /s
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/hindenburg-the-new-evidence/
It was obviously a bomb that George C. Scott was unable to defuse in time.
See #36
Aw, come on, we all know it was Trump’s fault.
He didn’t “solve” anything. It isn’t even original idea (he wasn’t the first to speculate it was “battery effect” set up by damp grounding ropes.).