Mythbusters Hindenburg Burn (Bit too much thermite!)

This is the third part of their hindenburg skin theory, in which it was not the hydrogen, but the thermite compound the skin was coated in that burned the hindenburg down.
This was their third blimp that was just burned after they got their proof from the previous 2.

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[Wolvenfire86]

I don't know why they needed a heat sensor. I could tell it was on fire.

[sinjinthule]

A hydrogen filled airship coated with thermite--what could possibly go wrong?

[Voltzap]

on aol mail today it had a video saying that they had cracked the Hindenburg disaster when mythbusters have done it already

[TheBATDJNuklier]

daaaaaaaang!

[Francisco Reyes]

i think the air filled airship could burn faster if they're flying it because of the wind which makes the fire go burn faster

[Kenny Dresden]

This thing is going to BURN!!!!!!!!

[DevilMaster]

The myth they busted was that the fire was ONLY due to the paint. I wish they revisited the Hindenburg fire from another angle and tried to bust or confirm the myth that the paint had NOTHING to do with the fire.

There would be a simple way to test this: make a Hindenburg model and treat it with modern materials to make it fireproof. Then fill it with hydrogen and see if it burns in the same way. If it does not, the paint WAS involved in the fire.

[Blackstaff425]

There ware survivors of the Hindenburg 62 in fact. Also, thanks to Myth Busters they found that the thermite paint on the ship was a huge factor in the disaster.

John have you forgot about passing back? You seemed to be running to the goal a lot and not working enough get an opening.

[MTTT1234]

Sorry didn't you read my response properly? First the paint caught fire because of the static, which was estimated with several thousand volts, the paint caught fire like tinder and because of this fire the hydrogen cells inside the Hindenburg started burning

[MrWLangers]

Yes, but without hydrogen catching light due to static sparks how would the thermite have caught light?

[MTTT1234]

nope, the hindenburg would have burned anyway, because it was not the hydrogen that burned first, but the outer layer painted with the thermit like paint. And since thermite burns with several thousand degrees celsius it would surely have caused enough damage that also a helium lifted blimp would have crashed.

[MegaSpazztic]

ummm, ooops ?