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HAROLD G. DICK AIRSHIP COLLECTION Airship Performance, Description and Wts, LZ-129 (1937)- Contains statistics on the 1936 voyages of the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg; detailed descriptions, blueprints, and hand drawn diagrams concerning the design of these airships; and reports describing their inflation procedures and operational performance. Airships (1931-1986)- Contains a collection of newspaper articles concerning the history of airships, especially German Zeppelins such as the Hindenburg, the development and future applications of airships and blimps, and the career and experiences of HGD. This report includes a description of the American Zeppelin Transport, Inc.; a history of airship travel including the performance of German passenger airships such as the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg; and cost analysis and performance comparisons between aircraft and airship transoceanic travel. specialcollections.wichita.edu /collections/ms/99-01/99-1-b.html   (8593 words)

Hydrogen Newsletter Spring 1997: Hindenburg This colorized photograph of the Hindenburg airship as it burned gives several proofs to the theory that it was the extreme flammability of the fabric cover, not the hydrogen inside, which caused the disaster. The electric arc burned a hole in the fabric; however, when the sample was mounted so it remained parallel to the arc (as the airship was), the fabric ignited and disappeared in seconds. In fact, an eyewitness reported seeing a blue glow of electrical activity atop the ill-fated Hindenburg before the fire started, which is indicative of the extremely high temperatures typical of a corona discharge. www.hydrogenus.com /advocate/ad22zepp.htm   (8593 words)

#1Hindenburg Disaster Web Page Hindenburg was a rigid airship built by a firm in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The Hindenburg was kept overhead by 200,000 cubic meters of hydrogen in 16 cells. NJ The Hindenburg was destroyed by the fire caused by the invisible gas and 35 members.aol.com /F0900/main.html   (8593 words)

Hydrogen Newsletter Spring 1997: Hindenburg This colorized photograph of the Hindenburg airship as it burned gives several proofs to the theory that it was the extreme flammability of the fabric cover, not the hydrogen inside, which caused the disaster. The electric arc burned a hole in the fabric; however, when the sample was mounted so it remained parallel to the arc (as the airship was), the fabric ignited and disappeared in seconds. In fact, an eyewitness reported seeing a blue glow of electrical activity atop the ill-fated Hindenburg before the fire started, which is indicative of the extremely high temperatures typical of a corona discharge. www.hydrogenus.com /advocate/ad22zepp.htm   (627 words)

THE HINDENBURG The Hindenburg was a non-ridged airship; this made it slightly weaker then the ridged airship would have been during the landing. Had the Hindenburg been built, as a ridged airship there would have been no need for tension wires, therefore it would have been less likely for a hole to be torn. After the Hindenburg, nonridged airships were no longer used. cems.alfred.edu /students98/hitterem/hindenburg.html   (627 words)

hindenberg Careful investigation of the Hindenburg disaster verified the opinion of the engineers on the Hindenburg and proved that it was the flammable aluminum powder filled paint varnish that coated the infamous airship, not the hydrogen that started the fateful fire. The Hindenburg was a rigid "airship" with a stretched outer shell of streamlined silver-colored fabric. The silver appearance of the Hindenburg was due to a surface varnish of powdered aluminum in a paint formula that resembles the chemistry of modern solid booster rocket fuel. www.clean-air.org /hindenberg.htm   (627 words)

Amazon.com: National Geographic's Hindenburg's Fiery Secret (2000) : Video Interviews with Hindenburg crew members who survived the disaster provide vivid testimony about the airship's fiery demise, and a former NASA engineer who has long been fascinated by the Hindenburg provides intriguing conclusions about how the fire spread so quickly. 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. The answers given by modern science indicate that overlooked features of the Hindenburg's construction contributed to its dramatic end, which also marked the end of the luxurious and amazing era of airship travel. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003OSU0?v=glance   (693 words)

Airships: The Zeppelin history and photo website, featuring the Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin, Akron, Macon, Shenandoah, Los Angeles, and other great dirigibles. Airships: The Zeppelin history and photo website, featuring the Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin, Akron, Macon, Shenandoah, Los Angeles, and other great dirigibles. Letter, posted on board Hindenburg on ship's letterhead, from New York Times reporter Lady Drummond-Hay to Clara Adams, looking forward to meeting again as "companions in adventure when the next zeppelin is completed." The letter is dated May 8, 1936 (almost a year to the day before the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937). Brochure about Airship travel distributed by the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei. www.airships.net   (177 words)

#1Hindenburg Disaster Web Page Hindenburg was a rigid airship built by a firm in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The Hindenburg was kept overhead by 200,000 cubic meters of hydrogen in 16 cells. NJ The Hindenburg was destroyed by the fire caused by the invisible gas and 35 members.aol.com /F0900/main.html   (192 words)

Amazon.com: The Hindenburg (1996) : Video Of course, it includes the famous newsreel and radio broadcast of the airship's destruction, but it also describes the history of airships and sets forth the political and economic circumstances surrounding the Hindenburg. It is an in-depth look at the disaster that shocked the world and ended the age of the airship forever. Using still pictures, film clips, and eyewitness accounts the film details the history of the famous airship from its development to its fiery demise. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006DMW?v=glance   (790 words)

Disaster of the Hindenburg As the Hindenburg approached it’s mooring mast at Lakehurst Airfield, however, a blue flame was seen by observers running along the airship’s back. The LZ –129 Zeppelin Hindenburg was the pride of the German National Socialist Government. An electrical discharge, coupled with the fact that the huge airship was operating on hydrogen as opposed to the far safer helium, was responsible for the explosion. sc.essortment.com /hindenburgdisas_rdac.htm   (790 words)

Crash of the Hindenburg, 1937 The giant airship, Hindenburg, made history with her first transatlantic flight in May of 1936. The high hopes for the 1937 season perished when the airship crashed in flames at the end of her maiden voyage of the year. As the Hindenburg maneuvered to land, something ignited her load of volatile hydrogen. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /vohind.htm   (790 words)

Great Moments in Science - Hindenburg & Hydrogen In the Hindenburg disaster, as soon as the hydrogen bladders were opened by the flames, the hydrogen inside would have escaped up and away from the burning airship - and it would not have not contributed to the ensuing fire. The disaster was blamed on the extreme flammability of the hydrogen lifting gas that filled most of the airship. As the Hindenburg came in to Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, there was a storm brewing, and so there was much static electricity in the air - which charged up the aircraft. www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/s1052864.htm   (717 words)

The Hindenburg Disaster The HIndenburg Disaster 1937 was said to be "the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world" by Herbert Morrison, when the world's largest airship exploded in a ball of fire. 'Hindenburg' was named after the veteran German soldier, Paul von Hindenburg, also the last democratically elected president of Germany before Hitler's rise. In 1934, the Zeppelin Company began work on its 129th airship. www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=netessays&dest=viewpaper.php?request=24755   (178 words)

Hindenburg - AskTheBrain.com During the landing operation, the Airship Hindenburg burst into flame at an altitude of about 200 feet and was burned to destruction by hydrogen fire originating at or near the stern. This is a reference to a news report about the explosion of the Hindenburg airship in 1937. It was first heard on the air with the crash of the dirigible Hindenburg, in 1937 at Lakehurst, New Jersey, and during the Munich crisis in 1938, and sounded again with the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. www.askthebrain.com /hindenburg-.html   (178 words)

Hydrogen Now! Home Page Although the Hindenburg was filled with seven million cubic feet of hydrogen for buoyancy, the fire spread because of the coating, which contained rocket propellant components. Thirty-four of the deaths were attributed to people jumping or falling from the airship, and two from burns from the flammable skin and on-board diesel. Within seconds, the airship burns and crashes to the ground, with a death toll of 35 of the 97 people on board and one on the ground. www.hydrogennow.org /Facts/history.htm   (178 words)

Scrapheap Challenge 2000 It is worth noting that the sister airship of the Hindenburg, the Graf Zeppelin, flew successfully for many years. The much-publicised disasters involving the Hindenburg and R101 had a profound effect on confidence in large airships. This was the LZ129, better known as the Hindenburg. www.channel4.com /science/microsites/S/scrapheap2000/2sciencea.html   (178 words)

Hindenberg On the evening of May 6, 1937, the news of the massive explosion of the German airship Hindenburg rocked the... The explosion of the luxury airship Hindenburg at Lakehurst, NJ, on May 6,... Myth: Hindenburg Fire In 1937 Proves That Hydrogen Is Too Dangerous For The Public To Use. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Hindenberg.html   (892 words)

Pushing It And the business of the airfield's new owner, CargoLifter, is the development of giant airships, a means of transport few have taken seriously since the Hindenburg went up in flames in 1937. The last company airship was the Hindenburg, which crashed in 1937. Several companies are convinced that airships are ripe for a comeback, including the venerable Zeppelin Luftschiff-technik, whose new craft recently won clearance to carry passengers, a dozen at a time. flatrock.org.nz /topics/flying/historic_craft_flies_again.htm   (892 words)

Hydrogen Newsletter Spring 1997: Hindenburg This colorized photograph of the Hindenburg airship as it burned gives several proofs to the theory that it was the extreme flammability of the fabric cover, not the hydrogen inside, which caused the disaster. The electric arc burned a hole in the fabric; however, when the sample was mounted so it remained parallel to the arc (as the airship was), the fabric ignited and disappeared in seconds. In fact, an eyewitness reported seeing a blue glow of electrical activity atop the ill-fated Hindenburg before the fire started, which is indicative of the extremely high temperatures typical of a corona discharge. www.hydrogenus.com /advocate/ad22zepp.htm   (627 words)

The Hindenburg (1975) Trivia: The actual site of the Hindenburg crash at Lakehurst Naval Air Station (re-established as the Naval Air Engineering Station, or "NAVAIR Lakehurst&; for short) is marked with a chain-outlined pad and bronze plaque where the airship's gondola landed. Plot Outline: A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames. Hangar #1, which still stands, is where the airship was to be housed after landing. www.imdb.com /title/tt0073113   (438 words)

Plot Summary for Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937) The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. www.imdb.org /Plot?0131424   (157 words)

Hindenburg disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Another proponent of the sabotage theory was Max Pruss, commander of the Hindenburg throughout the airship's in-service career. The Hindenburg was originally intended to be filled with helium, but a United States military embargo on helium forced the Germans to modify the design of the ship to use highly flammable hydrogen as the lift gas. The LZ-129 Hindenburg and her sister-ship LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II were the two largest aircraft ever built. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hindenburg_disaster   (157 words)

Airship In Germany, the last commander of the Hindenburg, Captain Max Pruss, and other airship advocates are proposing new passenger and cargo dirigibles, using helium in place of hydrogen, to provide an intermediate service between the slower surface liners and the faster airplane. The airship Shenandoah, nose to her high mooring mast, was floating gracefully with the variable breezes. But since helium had only 92.6 per cent of the lifting power of the inflammable hydrogen used in German airships, a section ten meters long had been added to the middle of the Shenandoah. www.legionville.com /Airship.htm   (4762 words)

Additional Reading (from Hindenburg, Paul von) --  Encyclopædia Britannica The Hindenburg was a 245-metre- (804-foot-) long airship of conventional zeppelin design that was launched at Friedrichshafen, Germany, in March 1936. An expert strategist, Ludendorff worked with Paul von Hindenburg in World War I and with him was responsible for many successful campaigns in the late years of the war. More results on "Additional Reading (from Hindenburg, Paul von)" when you join. www.britannica.com /eb/article-3209?tocId=3209   (4762 words)

Tragedy at Lakehurst During the landing operation, the Airship Hindenburg burst into flame at an altitude of about 200 feet and was burned to destruction by hydrogen fire originating at or near the stern. Delayed by persistent head winds, Hindenburg did not reach the Lakehurst area until late afternoon on the sixth, hours behind schedule. In less than a minute, the once-majestic Hindenburg was reduced to smoldering wreckage. www.nlhs.com /tragedy.htm   (4762 words)

Hindenburg Crash Mail - the Scout Covers The German zeppelin LZ Hindenburg was an airship, or dirigible, of the rigid type, and was built to carry passengers and mail between Europe and the Americas. To summarize, a total of 26 examples of Hindenburg crash mail from the Netherlands are recorded, of which 24 were Scout franked. The Titanic was only 78 feet longer than the Hindenburg at 882 feet long. www.slettebo.no /scout/hindenburg.htm   (4762 words)

Hydrogen Facts/Safety The explosion of the luxury airship Hindenburg at Lakehurst, NJ, on May 6, 1937, serves as one of the most spectacular moments recorded by the media. Even if the Hindenburg had not been lifted by hydrogen, the ignition of the covering would still have happened, and would then have set ablaze the diesel stores, resulting in the same disaster. This reaction has been proven chemically for years, and was demonstrated with actual remnants of the Hindenburg sixty years later, which burned as vigorously as on the day of the disaster. www.hydrogennow.org /Facts/Safety-1.htm   (4762 words)

Bizarre Airship Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg The term airship, generally speaking, is applied to dirigible balloons, while the heavier-than-air classes are more commonly spoken of as flying-machines. In 1909 the airship seemed to be the wave of the future. bizarrelabs.com /airship.htm   (1589 words)

Airship Another advantage surfaced during construction of the LZ 129 "Hindenburg" zeppelin: all passenger accommodati on was moved inside the airship hull, which made a much larger area available for passengers. The gondola is an attachment to the airship housing the cockpit and the passenger area. Non-rigid Airships: Non-rigid airships are airships which, like balloons, keep their exterior shape through the pressure of the lifting gas inside the envelope. www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/aircraft/airship.htm   (2185 words)

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