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There is a myth that Hydrogen was the cause of the Hindenburg airship disaster in 1937. What was the cause?
Recently NASA investigator Dr.Addison Bain duplicated the ignition by static discharge to the substance that “covered” the airship, proving that even if it was a Helium blimp, the disaster would have still happened.
The cause was recently elucidated by a NASA engineer, Addison Bain. The Hindenburg was coated with a new doping compound on the canvas cover. The purpose of the doping compound was to make the canvas more slippery to wind, and to reflect solar heat. Unfortunately, the new doping compound was composed of cellulose acetate and nitrate (which is used in gunpowder) and a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder, in nearly the exact ratio that iron oxide and Al powder would be used as a solid rocket fuel several decades later. The ignition source of the fire was thought to be static electricity, although sabotage may have played a factor.
The PBS documentary below outlined Bain’s theory, and the clincher was when he obtained a piece of the original fabric, picked up by a child on site the day after the Hindenburg burned, and ignited it with a static electricity bolt. It went up in a whoosh of flame (it convinced me).
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