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Hindenburg disaster sequence captured by William Deeke of Pathé News. Cameraman William Deeke filmed the scenes in this newsreel. The footage shows the Hindenburg making its final sharp turn to starboard while dropping ballast three times before skidding to port and dropping her landing lines. The narrator describes the Hindenburg as a "puny ...
English: Universal Newsreel about the Hindenburg disaster which occurred on May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, United States.
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. [1]
The disaster of the British airship R 101 prompted the Zeppelin Company to reconsider the use of hydrogen, therefore scrapping the LZ 128 in favour of a new airship designed for helium, the LZ 129. Initial plans projected the LZ 129 to have a length of 248 metres (814 ft), but 11 m (36 ft) was dropped from the tail in order to allow the ship to ...
Herbert Oglevee Morrison (May 14, 1905 – January 10, 1989) was an American radio journalist who recorded for broadcast his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 35 people.
Although the submarine has explosion-proof walls, the explosion spreads through the ventilation shafts, killing everyone at the command post and preventing the sub from performing an emergency blow. 135 seconds later, another explosion rocks the submarine. Then it sinks, killing all but 23 men on board.
Block is still being put in a square penalty box by Hindenburg Research.Block stock fell another 2% in early trading on Friday, after falling 15% on Thursday, as Wall Street continued to sift ...
Addison Bain (September 23, 1935 – January 22, 2025) was an American NASA scientist [1] and founding member of the National Hydrogen Association [2] who is credited with postulating the Incendiary Paint Theory (IPT), which posits that the Hindenburg disaster was caused by the electrical ignition of lacquer- and metal-based paints used on the outer hull of the airship.