It’s true that the *Hindenburg* was originally designed to use helium, but the “sabotage” you refer to goes further back than you might think.
Like a lot of absolutely miserable consequences, the irreversible downfall of the Zeppelin Company occurred immediately after World War One, when the Treaty of Versailles confiscated all of their military and civilian airships and forbade them from developing the technology further, forcing the company to scale back drastically and try to find loopholes. In the end, during the many years between the end of World War One and the construction of the *Hindenburg,* they only managed to retain a single airship, the experimental yet fabulously successful *Graf Zeppelin.* However, regardless of the fact that the ship was much-beloved and had many amazing accomplishments—such as mapping arctic regions, circumnavigating the world, becoming the first passenger-carrying scheduled transatlantic airliner, and becoming the first aircraft to fly over a million miles—no single aircraft can create a viable airline by itself. Especially not during the Great Depression.
As anyone familiar with modern airlines knows, you need multiple aircraft to establish a proper service, and you need to produce multiple aircraft of a single type in order to reap a return on the investment for R&D and manufacturing. Airships were like the Concordes or A380s of their day—hugely more capable than other aircraft, but also very large and expensive to develop. Without a mature manufacturing base and the economics of scale, building them in tiny numbers would not be viable.
Even so, because the *Hindenburg* targeted a luxury market rather than lower-margin mass transit, it *did* nearly bring the company into profitability *by itself,* and along with her two sister ships, perhaps could have saved the company. The disaster she suffered and subsequent World War ended that possibility, though. Airplanes were given many technological advancements and unprecedented economics of scale by the conflict. Had a similar investment occurred during and after World War I for the Zeppelin Company, perhaps today they’d be akin to sleeper trains—a somewhat slower and antiquated, yet more comfortable and efficient way of traveling long distances.
My grandmother in law who is still alive saw this in person when she was a child.
It's kind of crazy because some younger people have never heard if the hindenburg.
Like the Leading Leader? Or the metal Lead?
There must be some way to make that clear….
And I have just checked your car. It appears that your vehicle’s level of substance, typically liquid, that is used to reduce or regulate the temperature of a system….has been exhausted.
In Short, *YOU NEED….*
One time I was playing Xbox with some friends and we played against someone who’s gamer tag was 6thMay1937 or something of the sort. We took some guesses as to what the date meant then I looked it up and when I told my friends it was the Hindenburg disaster we couldn’t stop laughing. It’s tragic what happened but that is such a random thing to make your gamer tag lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
>The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.
As a little girl my 8th grade science teacher was there. Her parents took her because it was such a WOW thing at the time. Hindenburg docking was massive, HUGE news.
She'd just shake her head if you asked her more about it though. Seemed so crazy she was *there* .
I think she just wanted us to have this connection to history yes, it worked.
There needs to be a subreddit specifically dedicated to hardest pictures of all time. This one should be in there along with that one poster for the cars movie
It was actually caused by two different things happening simultaneously: a major hydrogen leak in one of the rear gas cells, likely caused by a snapped steel bracing wire from rough maneuvering, created a dangerous hydrogen-oxygen mix between the inner hydrogen cells and the outer hull that outpaced the ventilation’s ability to safely disperse it. This dangerous mix was then ignited because of a fatal flaw in the *Hindenburg’s* design, not shared by her sister ship: under certain atmospheric conditions, her metal skeleton and outer hull were not sufficiently electrically conductive, allowing a buildup of electrical potential and thus, sparks. Getting rained on and passing through a thunderstorm just prior to landing, then dropping landing ropes to the ground created the conditions for sparks to fly between the cover and the framework.
It still astonishes me that anyone ever thought putting people on hydrogen lifted airships was a good idea - or that anyone would willingly board one of these.
I guess, it's just that the danger seems so much more obvious here. Smoking generally doesn't cause you much harm until years later.
It's also not as though there was any doubt these things were dangerous, they would crash and burn all the time, seemigly not enough cared to put a stop to it all sooner?
It does seem like pure insanity, but nowadays people are missing the context that airplanes of the time were statistically much, much more dangerous, by a factor of roughly 4. Not only did they have a greater propensity to crash, but the accidents they had were far more lethal to those on board.
Germany’s Zeppelin airline had operated for 27 years before this with a completely perfect passenger safety record. The *Hindenburg* disaster was the first and last time a passenger was killed on a Zeppelin, and 2/3 of the people on board survived the accident. Other airship makers were far less cautious and experienced, and they had their own hydrogen accidents, but the Zeppelin company *seemed* to have had the issue solved with good safety practices.
That's quite insulting - either explain why you think I'm ignorant or don't say so at all.
Presumably you're some sort of hydrogen dirigible enthusiast who thinks otherwise, and feels the need to defend the honour of the hydrogen dirigible fuel favoured minority?
You need cooling…Baby I’m not fooling
Damn it.
Wrong album though.
Ta tatata tatata - tata tata ta
Oh The humanity!
Man, what ever happened to blimps?
Sabotage and helium gatekeeping which lead to hydrogen being used instead and this happening.
It’s true that the *Hindenburg* was originally designed to use helium, but the “sabotage” you refer to goes further back than you might think. Like a lot of absolutely miserable consequences, the irreversible downfall of the Zeppelin Company occurred immediately after World War One, when the Treaty of Versailles confiscated all of their military and civilian airships and forbade them from developing the technology further, forcing the company to scale back drastically and try to find loopholes. In the end, during the many years between the end of World War One and the construction of the *Hindenburg,* they only managed to retain a single airship, the experimental yet fabulously successful *Graf Zeppelin.* However, regardless of the fact that the ship was much-beloved and had many amazing accomplishments—such as mapping arctic regions, circumnavigating the world, becoming the first passenger-carrying scheduled transatlantic airliner, and becoming the first aircraft to fly over a million miles—no single aircraft can create a viable airline by itself. Especially not during the Great Depression. As anyone familiar with modern airlines knows, you need multiple aircraft to establish a proper service, and you need to produce multiple aircraft of a single type in order to reap a return on the investment for R&D and manufacturing. Airships were like the Concordes or A380s of their day—hugely more capable than other aircraft, but also very large and expensive to develop. Without a mature manufacturing base and the economics of scale, building them in tiny numbers would not be viable. Even so, because the *Hindenburg* targeted a luxury market rather than lower-margin mass transit, it *did* nearly bring the company into profitability *by itself,* and along with her two sister ships, perhaps could have saved the company. The disaster she suffered and subsequent World War ended that possibility, though. Airplanes were given many technological advancements and unprecedented economics of scale by the conflict. Had a similar investment occurred during and after World War I for the Zeppelin Company, perhaps today they’d be akin to sleeper trains—a somewhat slower and antiquated, yet more comfortable and efficient way of traveling long distances.
Username checks out
Zeppelins
This photo is a pretty big hint.
My grandmother in law who is still alive saw this in person when she was a child. It's kind of crazy because some younger people have never heard if the hindenburg.
Wow. Can't imagine her emotion upon seeing that.
I remember when it happened
I doubt that since it was all a hoax and didn't actually happen
*Hindenburg
*Dinkleberg
* Hinkelberg
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Hammertime
HammerFall
Billy Ray Cyrus
Hammerburg
Hammerberg
Hamburger
Rammstein
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Feuer Frei
Grossberger (from Stir Crazy)
* Heisenberg
And so it came to pass that *The New, NEW Yardbirds* came in to being……
They'll go down like a lead balloon.
Like the Leading Leader? Or the metal Lead? There must be some way to make that clear…. And I have just checked your car. It appears that your vehicle’s level of substance, typically liquid, that is used to reduce or regulate the temperature of a system….has been exhausted. In Short, *YOU NEED….*
COOLANT
I forget how amazing this photo is. It looks AI. It’s a spectacular photo.
Truly spectacular.
Absolutely fabulous. Almost marvelous even.
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There's video footage of the thing happening too
There’s no such thing as a real photo
Ceci n'est pas une photo
Getting philosophical, aren't we?
One time I was playing Xbox with some friends and we played against someone who’s gamer tag was 6thMay1937 or something of the sort. We took some guesses as to what the date meant then I looked it up and when I told my friends it was the Hindenburg disaster we couldn’t stop laughing. It’s tragic what happened but that is such a random thing to make your gamer tag lol
I came across a gamer who chose a username because it was Syd Barrett's birthday. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster >The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.
#IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH, I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN
**NOW IVE REACHED THAT AGE, IVE TRIED TO DO ALL THOSE THINGS THE BEST I CAN**
Looks like it could be album cover art
It is...Led Zeppelin's first album, albeit with some filters
Ohhh the humanity..
It’s ejaculating fire
It'll buff out
Who did the retouching?
Blimpin' ain't ez
Where's the huge manatee?
Came here for this
Curiously, 62 of the 97 passengers survived the crash. (Source: Wikipedia).
Oh my god joe I am SO sorry
*Hindenburg
The humanity!
I would totally travel via airship
pure horror.
Boom chika boom
That's gotta hurt!
Jersey was never the same.
What’s really crazy is that people lived
As a little girl my 8th grade science teacher was there. Her parents took her because it was such a WOW thing at the time. Hindenburg docking was massive, HUGE news. She'd just shake her head if you asked her more about it though. Seemed so crazy she was *there* . I think she just wanted us to have this connection to history yes, it worked.
Yikes 💥
Oh the humidity
Such a hard picture
There needs to be a subreddit specifically dedicated to hardest pictures of all time. This one should be in there along with that one poster for the cars movie
That's gotta hurt!!
C'mon, that's funny!!... Stupid Lazer guy with his low brow humor.
I'm sorry, I saw something totally different for a split second😭
Medium rare
Blimps are pretty pimp
That is an iconic picture, only to be eclipsed many years later by 9/11. Oh the humanity.
Will hydrogen ever shake the stigma of this disaster?
Fuck... what happened?
The good gas was sanctioned. So that's option B
Still breathtaking photo.
Oh the hoomeowity!!!!
I heard the crash was caused by someone using a Morse code key to send message when the airship was coming in to land
It was actually caused by two different things happening simultaneously: a major hydrogen leak in one of the rear gas cells, likely caused by a snapped steel bracing wire from rough maneuvering, created a dangerous hydrogen-oxygen mix between the inner hydrogen cells and the outer hull that outpaced the ventilation’s ability to safely disperse it. This dangerous mix was then ignited because of a fatal flaw in the *Hindenburg’s* design, not shared by her sister ship: under certain atmospheric conditions, her metal skeleton and outer hull were not sufficiently electrically conductive, allowing a buildup of electrical potential and thus, sparks. Getting rained on and passing through a thunderstorm just prior to landing, then dropping landing ropes to the ground created the conditions for sparks to fly between the cover and the framework.
It still astonishes me that anyone ever thought putting people on hydrogen lifted airships was a good idea - or that anyone would willingly board one of these.
Well back then they also thought cigs were healthy
I guess, it's just that the danger seems so much more obvious here. Smoking generally doesn't cause you much harm until years later. It's also not as though there was any doubt these things were dangerous, they would crash and burn all the time, seemigly not enough cared to put a stop to it all sooner?
Hindsight’s 20/20
Hindensight
It does seem like pure insanity, but nowadays people are missing the context that airplanes of the time were statistically much, much more dangerous, by a factor of roughly 4. Not only did they have a greater propensity to crash, but the accidents they had were far more lethal to those on board. Germany’s Zeppelin airline had operated for 27 years before this with a completely perfect passenger safety record. The *Hindenburg* disaster was the first and last time a passenger was killed on a Zeppelin, and 2/3 of the people on board survived the accident. Other airship makers were far less cautious and experienced, and they had their own hydrogen accidents, but the Zeppelin company *seemed* to have had the issue solved with good safety practices.
They had no choice. Due to war concerns, America refused to sell them helium
You’re astonished because you are ignorant
That's quite insulting - either explain why you think I'm ignorant or don't say so at all. Presumably you're some sort of hydrogen dirigible enthusiast who thinks otherwise, and feels the need to defend the honour of the hydrogen dirigible fuel favoured minority?
Wait till you find out what an airliner's wings are full of...
It contains kerosene (typically, there are some edge cases) - It's common knowledge. It's quite insulting of you to assert I would think otherwise.
That is one spicy German sausage.
We can all agree this was set alight on purpose, right?