hydrogen gas

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Album: Predominance ‎-- Hindenburg Label: Loki Foundation ‎-- LOKI 34 Country: Germany Released: 2003 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial Video: National Geographic - Hindenburg Documentary Nearly everyone has seen the vivid newsreel footage of the Hindenburg disaster, when Germany's pride, the greatest airship ever flown, burst into flames while attempting to land in New Jersey after a transatlantic crossing in 1937. And while the Hindenburg's fiery end could not have been more public, the cause of the disaster has always the subject of much speculation, with theories ranging from sabotage to the more mundane explanation of static electricity igniting the highly flammable hydrogen gas used to lift the 804-foot-long dirigible. It was the largest and most celebrated passenger airship ever built. But like another legendary transatlantic liner, the Hindenburg was doomed. Some said it was only a tragic accident. Others blamed a murderous act of sabotage. But what really destroyed the Hindenburg? Now, after more than half a century, a former NASA engineer may have uncovered the real answer to the mystery. What he found, buried deep in the archives of the great ship's manufacturers, was a design flaw so startling and dangerous that some, at the time, may have dismissed it as beyond belief, and perhaps it was their prideful refusal - and that of the Nazi regime itself - to allow the flaw to come under public scrutiny that brought an end to the golden age of passenger airships.