5-21 In Search Of... The Hindenburg Mystery (Part 2 of 2)

Season 5 Episode 21 Part 2

Hosted by Leonard Nimoy and broadcast weekly from 1976 to 1982, In Search Of... is the greatest mystery documentary show ever. I grew up watching this show, enjoying the spine-tingling presentation of quasi-fact and dramatic synthesizer-heavy music of Rinder and Lewis.

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[jcw3032]

Thanks for uploading this :)

[cb7pwn]

whats with the announcer!? wasnt that thing full of NAZIS anyways?!

[DemonDrummer1018]

@PahangDragonbird I stand corrected thus far. Thanks for the info, I'll check it out!

[PahangDragonbird]

@DemonDrummer1018 another thing is Addison Bain, views hydrogen as completely blameless, which is utterly ridiculous when you see it clearly burning in the footage. (hydrogen burns invisibly, but it was coloured by the combustible stuff around it.

[PahangDragonbird]

well this was pretty much what A.J. Dessler, D.E.Overs and William Appleby said in their papers. They found some flaws with the paint theory. It may be possible (though I think it's very low chance) that the skin ignited first, but the Hydrogen would have ignited right after. If Helium was used the Hindenburg would have been saved because the fire would be so slow. airships.net has some good information about this. as for the conductivity, see Harold Dick's book Golden Age of Passenger AIrships.

[DemonDrummer1018]

@PahangDragonbird Very interesting! I never knew that, do you have a source? I would really like to learn more about this!

[PahangDragonbird]

that's what proponents of the skin theory want you to think - that hydrogen is safe enough to use without problems.Tests have shown it would be impossible for the skin to be ignited through static sparks. Addison Bain cheated by using a continuous electrical machine inconsistent with atmospheric conditions. And what the German scientists really concluded was the outer skin was a poor conductor and caused a spark to jump inside into a piece of metal and ignite hydrogen.

[DarthLego100]

That news presenter lol

[DemonDrummer1018]

This "mystery" was solved 2 months after the tragedy. Hydrogen did not cause the disaster. The outer cover which was poorly coated caused it. The hydrogen did fuel it however after the outer coating's fire made the structural integety of the ship poor enough, the hydrogen did escape and fuel the remaining fire. But, if the ship had been using any other gas, it still would have caught fire. Hydrogen is the future gas to be used in many things.

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

i like death, in fact, i hope to die some day