Hindenburg Disaster
Why did we ever think that a giant balloon filled with 200,000 cubic metres of highly flammable hydrogen alongside hundreds of tonnes of fuel oil was a good way to move lots of people across oceans?
The Hindenburg was a 245-metre-long airship designed and built in Germany by the Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH), launched at Friedrichshafen in March 1936. Though it was designed to be filled with helium, the Hindenburg was actually filled with highly flammable hydrogen…
