Lakehurst/New Jersey, May 6th 1937, 7 pm:The 'Hindenburg' has come all the way from Europe - a luxurious flying hotel, faster than any ship. The pride of the Third Reich prepares to land, and hundreds of onlookers have gathered to watch.
Then, all of a sudden, a burst of flame just forward of the upper fin. In a matter of seconds, the largest airship ever built goes down in a fiery blaze.
35 people died in the flames - and nobody knew why. Sabotage? A bolt of lightning? The mystery surrounding the disaster has never been resolved - until now.In many years of research, a NASA scientist at Cape Canaveral has found proof that neither the hydrogen in the hull nor a bomb was to blame, but the fabric of the Hindenburg's outer skin and a new protective coating. A single spark of static electricity was enough to make it burn like dry leaves. The 'infallible' German engineers had designed a flying bomb just waiting to explode.
4 comments:
( WOW ) that was a year before i was born , flipping eck am i that old lol .
but joking aside tori , you have done a good bit of research on that , thank you , did you really believe me when i said that there was such a thing as an ( air ship ) .
grandma x
Well, I did believe you but had to see for myself
very interesting!
yeah, I thought so too, that's why I posted it... lol
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