Today on 6th may 1937 the mightiest and biggest flying machine was on its second journey from Frankfurt Germany to Lakehurst station in Manchester township. Where it engulfed in flames while landing on the station taking lives of 36 people while fortunately 62 people survived. Cause of disaster was that the ship was to be filled with helium but instead it was filled with Hydrogen that a flammable gas. They filled it with Hydrogen because there was a helium outage in Germany. The final cause of the disaster was shot-circuit .
Me: Biggest flying machine is Hindenburg.
AN 225: Am i a joke to you ?
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@Captainboeing lmao as it turns out the AN-225 is fucking TINY compared to the hindenburg, the only way it's bigger is width, the wingspan of the AN-225 is a decent bit longer than the diameter of the hindenburg width-wise
@ChrisPy lol, fair enough. Helium is safe tho
@LieutenantSOT idk a bunch of hydrogen and helium still sounds dangerous to me
@ChrisPy Well, lol, I didn't mean it like that. It had a 36% fatality rate versus the Titanic's 64% fatality rate. And most of the deaths on the Hindenburg were from falling and hitting the ground or suffocating, not the fire itself.
It also was so stable that it barely rocked in hard winds over the atlantic.
But yes, it was one of the worst incidents in history. Maybe we could build better Zeppelins today
Safest ever built. Burns to ground in one of the most spectacular explosions humankind has witnessed. Lol
@LieutenantSOT
This airship was the safest one ever built... 'tis a shame that there are no more. If only they had taken the turn better
@AWESOMENESS360 Yeah, 0.1 miles long. Top speed of 80 mph. And even crazier, max weight of 450,000 pounds
@AWESOMENESS360 My god that is really huge than that boeing 747 even bigger than i thought.
@WarHawk95 Oh yes that was a mistake ! I changed that with a real one.
The Hindenburg was, and probably always will be the largest flying craft that humanity has ever constructed, it’s really a shame that it went out in the violent and destructive way it did. For reference, this is how massive it was.
Most comments that I make like that are taken the wrong way. Wasn’t meaning to spit on anyone’s grave and I’m definitely not saying it’s good that 10 nazis died along with 150 civs. @GeneralPatrick2
Ik was joke. @GeneralPatrick2
@ChrisPy that's a rather rude thing to say about a disaster, whether or not there were nazis it was a passenger blimp carrying more than just nazis. would you say the same thing if it were an airliner with a few socialist passengers? a train with a few unconvicted murderers? sure, the few people of said negative disposition might be, yknow, that negative disposition, but that's no reason to toss aside a historical disaster as "who cares, that plane had a single rapist on board out of 180 passengers".
tl;dr what you said is very insensitive, and one bad apple doesn't necessarily spoil the entire bunch, contrary to the saying
I love how the second pic shows the USS Macon (ZRS-5) and not the Hindenburg
I mean the blimp was full of nazis sooooooooo