ikr ??? smoking on planes was also super common, and it wasn't officially banned in the united states until (my jaw dropped when I googled this) February 25th 1990. the fucking 90's bro. I'm in utter disbelief. People are so dumb omg.
As a kid I thought the envelope was all filled with hydrogen and all the rooms were pressurized. I was like 6. I always liked to give ideas on how things worked, I was a smart lad.
My Great grandma is currently 93 and as I'm typing this, is alive. She was born in 1930 in Lakehurst NJ and was 9 at the time of the explosion her father was a crew member that was going to get the ship safely down. Fortunately he survived. My Great Grandma also watched the hidenburg come down. She was watching not too far at a nearby fence.
@@AngelLestat2 ehh no, with helium the number of customers would be reduced but still would be rentable. maybe you are assuming that it would not be able to cross based in usa investigations and copy attempts, but these where a total failure and coudlnt even survive cross wind. also, von zeppelin was totally against nazi germany, but he had to get that swastika on his precious bird because usa didnt want to send HIM helium, this was because germany was the only country capable of cross the atlantic, not only passangers, but also with mail service, so it was a commercial block, nothing to do with nazi germany, that, before the war, was a potential ally to usa.
@@santiagoperez2094 I dont get your point. To fully understand mine I recommend you to read my answer on quora. When I said that if the hindenburg would not be able to keep the range it had even with zero payload (no cabins, no passengers, no bed, nothing), I am just taking into account common sense in airships operation. All the lift that is lost due 12% less buoyancy, plus the lift lost due to start with lower inflation because you can not vent helium because is expensive, not being able to counter all the weight lost of the fuel mass consumed meanwhile you are in travel or inject hydrogen into the engines to extend range and other helium drawbacks. Is not just a matter that "it would not be so rentable", it can not cross the ocean so it would not be rentable at all unless it would be used just for short range trips, but what is the point to travel on land? for that you used a car or something similar. At those times the benefic was the speed of airships vs ships. About cross winds not sure what you mean, Zeppelings (from the zeppeling brand), had a lot of experience and they was well constructed (mostly due the extra buoyancy margin you get with hydrogen that can be used for reinforcements), they were in many storms and no passenger die.
it isnt a plane, it doesnt consume fuel to generate lift. it didnt got in any storm, in fact its perfect score was also there thnx to its tripulants, search about them
@@santiagoperez2094 I know everything about them.. they consume fuel to move... unless you are considering to be super lucky to have the wind with the direction and intensity to where you want to go :P They were in many storms.. some lighting hit on them (I am speaking of the last models of zeppelins) and they were ok. If you are gonna to discuss, try to make it with facts. Don't make me lose my time with internet trolling. I read several books over airships in different languages.
Many of them survived with broken limbs after jumping. The longer they waited to jump, the lower their fall - but the more likely the airship's fiery form would land atop them. Timing was rather crucial.
I’ve always been fascinated with the Hindenburg disaster so it is great to see the workings of the ship in such detail. Thanks for all the hard work that obviously went into this!
I recall that a member of the Crew was trapped by the conflagration and had resigned himself to dying, when he was suddenly drenched by a veritable waterfall that came from a water ballast tank above him which fractured! The flames around him were extinguished and so he was able to safely escape! When I first read about his escape I was really happy for him, and how from facing a truly horrific death he was suddenly saved by a freak occurrence of the only possible means for his survival. Your videos are fascinating in their meticulous detail, likewise your narration.
The reason the fire started from the back was because the captain was pushing the Airship to its limits. That caused one of the control cables to snap and puncture the body of the airship. This combined with the static electricity phenomenon described in this video is what led to the spark that ignited the Hindenburg.
No, the static electricity built up between a hydrogen vent flap and the hull. Venting hydrogen was part of the docking procedure, but there was not supposed to be any static electricity. Someone must have used unsafe paint.
@@davidwuhrer6704you almost got it. It was the weather conditions, as well as the cross-Atlantic flight, that made the whole surface damp with salt water. Built up a huge charge. PBS Nova explains the whole thing
@@ThatGreyGentleman A charge compared to the ground was expected. There had been hundreds of crossings across the Atlantic before, and none of them ignited vented hydrogen. The issue in question is the charge between the flap and the hull, both of which had been exposed to the same weather conditions simultaneously. Go back to school.
That is a good possibility, but the theory has its errors and thats part of the mystery. The ship was already heavy in the rear (lost more hydrogen there than further forward) and had to drop more aft ballast than usual before the radical maneuvers for the urgent landing took place. So the damage must already have happened while the ship was flying over the USA and waited for the thunderstorms to pass. None of the witnesses mentioned any hard maneuvers before and also the captain was not handling the wheel, as usual (since the bridge crew operated on their own without many commands by the captain during a landing). But a snapped tensioner cable is the most likely culprit anyway. This had happened before, since these piano wires actually made the aircraft rigid and are under heavy stress during turbulence and maneuvers.
@@davidwuhrer6704 The hydrogen, that gets vented controlled or from overpressure valves also goes into the vent shafts and not into the hull itself. This venting is actually even a safety measure, since the venting ensured that the gas cells only contain hydrogen and no oxygen needed for a combustion. But some amount of leakage happened anyway, a zeppelin needs some airflow through its hull all the time to remove the hydrogen gathering at the top. The slower the airship travels, the harder it gets to remove all the leaked hydrogen from its hull.
If someone will ever rebuild this airship with the same size or even bigger, i would like to pay a million to have a wedding party there. Traveling the world with your love one, its just like sailing but in the sky.
@@akromimubarok6626 And no rush. Aircrafts nowadays travel for hours, which is too short to spend some time. Airship is one cool thing, but just to make sure it doesn't burn 😂.
Makes me wonder, if we could make the hazards irrelevant when constructing an explosion and fire proof passenger cabin with todays materials (aerogel-coat for fireproofing, carbon fibre for the walls etc.) and adding sensors and other preventive measures. A few autonomous cargo airships are currently in operation, but I think airships have a so bad image, that they wont be re-adopted for passenger transport anytime soon. And helium is not future proof because of rising prices due to it's supply being limited.
My grandfather was a german teen when he served on the Hindenburg as the accident happened but somehow he managed to survive the tragedy. After that he wrote a 1 of 1 book which afterwards he handed over to us about it with a lot pictures and explainings whose describe how he could survive. Truly heartbreaking and devastating. Unfortunately he died 2014 as last survivor of the Hindeburg. If you guys are interested in the book I could share some pictures, but beware, everything is written in german for those who don't understand !
@@damsbaug33 My fault. Werner Doehner was the last surviving passenger. My grandfather who died back in 2014 was the last surving crew member of the Hindenburg.
Wow, incredible video with the animation. It is exactly what I was looking to understand. I visited a museum that presented the Hindenburg and I had no idea there were passengers in it. Thank you very much for sharing and keeping this video up!
Crisp and clear animation to show how the layout of the thing is. I'm an aircraft design engineer and it's definitely interesting to see how they designed this. Thank you for the fantastic explanation!
Great, easy-to-understand images in this superb video, I agree that your work of the illustrators art shows the interior really well. You do great work, I have subscribed in a second. I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Danke für dieses Video. Was oft missverstanden wird: Ja, Helium ist schwerer als Wasserstoff. Wenn wir das vergleichen müssen wir das Gewicht aber gegen Luft (28,949 g/mol) vergleichen. Und dann wirkt Helium (4.003 g/mol) nicht mehr soooo viel schwerer als Wasserstoff (2,01588 g/mol).
actually the Hindenburg made a round the world trip and yes Brazil too. There are photos that had been taken over Rio, visible at the Zeppelin Museum in Zeppelinheim near Frankfurt. Actually a village which was created just for all the employees at the Zeppelin company, as it was just at almost waking distance of the airport. You can look at it on google maps.
Not really because it was pressurised, completely safe, and there was a single electric lighter used by the steward to light up the cigars, cigarettes, or pipes of the passengers. You couldnt bring your own lighter aboard or anything that could be considered dangerous.
I'm putting together a wooden "static model" kit of the Hindenburg. The details I could make and add from your intensive research is inspiring. Aside from classic filmed crash, this video is the best I've ever seen. Amazing work. In my favorite list.
..you are poorly informed on the subject. Room was pressurised exactly because of that. In those days nobody would travel on that airship without being able to smoke. And again this was not the cause of the disaster. 🤦🏻♂️
@Diego Jimenez ..not as dumb as your idiotic comment! Have you ever designed anything in your life? Maybe the arrangement of condiments on your sandwich! 😂🤦🏻♂️
@@J.Wolf90 we do, they just suck. There’s no demand for flying cars and I’m pretty glad we don’t have any. There are 102 major car accidents per day in the USA; flight accidents are much more lethal and destructive. Imagine if you had a country where the vehicles combined the accessibility of cars with the power of flying vehicles. We’d need extensive testing, much more than our current driving tests, to let people own them, and anyone who wants to might as well skip the fantasy and buy a Cessna or something.
@@sasasa1541 yeah if you really want a flying car just get your pilots license and buy an airplane. the airplane IS the flying car. People want something that they can park in their garage but that will never happen. There are too many safety hazards and restrictions on aircraft's that you're better off just buying a normal plane. But anyways flying cars really are just airplanes
@@kuckoo9036 Dude, it's 1930s technology. Hybrid airships potentially can carry a lot more. Concepts for large hybrid airships can carry 1000 tons of cargo.
Судя по последним исследованиям, всему виной обшивка гинденбурга, состоявшая из целюлозы и алюминиевой пудры, по сути, ракетным топливом, хватило малейшей искры, чтобы обшивка вспыхнула, а дальше в дело вступил водород...
To be fair the first accident in the list LZ-104 was a German airship, built by Zeppelin, but it was a military vessel so technically no "passengers" were killed. It is also unclear why LZ-104 exploded as it happened over water and there were no survivors.
Nice computer simulation. Observations: 1) The smoking room was kept at a negative atmospheric pressure to prevent any sparks or embers from accidentally traveling outwards. Your arrows in the depiction should be facing the other way. 2) The great circle route from Germany to Lakehurst takes you far north, almost to Greenland. Your depiction shows an impossibly long route over the Atlantic.
For something that lasted like 50 seconds is an animation, not a film. And it is even a waste of resources. I mean, we have the original footage! Which is slot better!
I don't think airships are obsolete. They would be awesome as a luxury cruise much like ships. long distance travel will be dominated by fixed wing but airships can still be use for luxury cruises.
Matthew Morycinski Until we start running fusion reactors, then we’ll have heaps of helium. But weight will always be the issue with airships. Another disadvantage, they operate at levels that subject them to a lot of weather, whereas modern aircraft cruise well above the weather. They could probably use dehumidifiers to capture water. Like you, I don’t think they’d be suitable as cruise liners, but maybe some billionaire might like a private Airyacht. Great platform for viewing things like the America’s Cup, or F1 Grand Prix. I’m afraid they’re always going to be unwieldy things, close to the ground, in turbulent weather. Severe wind shear could spin one out of control, though modern vectored thrust would help mitigate this. Sorry, just rambling. Must be time for bed.
My grandma passed last year at 102 years and told us many times about seeing the Hindenburg docked in NY when she was a child. A few years later the disaster happened.
I'm not sure if it was on the fatal last flight, but from what I've read, the Hindenburg on at least one occasion flew directly over the location where Titanic sunk over two decades earlier (and apparently the passengers on the airship looked down from the windows in sad remembrance). If true, what a CREEPY coincidence, and foreshadowing!
I have always wondered what it looked like inside. Your video is the first time that has been illustrated (that I’ve ever seen anyway) & it is EXCELLENT. Thank you so much for your work and talent! 👍🏻
There's just something so majestic about airships that makes me kind of sad that they're gone. Ok, enough nostalgia. Airships never had a very good safety record even without fires. They're just too susceptible to storms and other weather.
Well, from an engineering perspective, airships are majestic too, not because of some kind if nostalgia but because of their functionality. Until today their hasn't been a much more energy efficient way to travel through the air, than using an airship, in fact, airships might make a comeback as a super efficient transportation methode.
Dr Hugo Eckener, the head honcho of the Zeppelin company, has been quoted as saying that he was well aware of the psychological effect of seeing a large airship in the sky. Incredibly impressive, I say. What a sight they must have been. *sigh**
As majestic as they do look, as you said they also have a serious risk factor. Any storm or big cross wind. Yikes. I do appreciate the look of them. They do glide seamlessly through the air but any little hiccup could be tragic.
excellent video, there was however much more to the landing attempt, like a 3 hour delay waiting for weather to clear up, and three water ballast drops to level the ship. further indicating a gas leak. but i thoroughly enjoyed the ship design presentation.
If I could bring any technology back from the past it would probably be these zeppelin airships. They are so cool, would love to see them flying low over the city.
Fun fact! If we can make Zeppelin out of Graphene, then we won't need any hydrogen or helium. The only reason why Zeppelins need those gas is that such a large metal frame can't keep its shape and be light enough to fly at the same time.
Bro, just watched for the first time. Although I'm late to the party, I needed to say - thank you. This is excellent content. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. Well done!
I saw an investigative documentary on this the other day, and they did a serries of test to prove that large static charges could have easily occurred under the conditions that day.
Great video and much more informative than any other videos I’ve seen published. Nice computer rendering of the interior layout of the ship, never seen that before.
The technology for its time was amazing. Less than 50 years earlier and the main forms of transportation were the horse and buggy, and maybe a steam powered locomotive or ship if you were able to afford the price. It really is amazing when you look at how fast technology grew throughout the 20th century and compare that throughout the rest of history and so much of it came from Germany.
4:44 Small detail but at the time Germanys borders were different than what’s pictured. Their eastern border extended further into modern day Poland past the Oder river and they owned an enclave in East Prussia.
Static electricity for sure! When they threw the ropes down they hit the water that was in puddles on the ground! The charge went up the ropes and kaboom!
The charge always goes down to the ground, just like when you touch (or at least should do) your car after getting off on a gas station, before getting the gasoline. The rest could be as you say.
The Germans successfully flew hydrogen airships through thunder and lightning storms. Hydrogen was viewed as safe so long as proper safety procedures were adhered to. Some wonder if it was sabotage that did the Hindenburg in.
The most wide held theory now is that the airship tried to turn too quickly causing too much stress on the rear section.. This damage led to rupture of the rear gas bags which then ignited.. The resulting chain reaction throughout the airship caused the final destruction...
@@somedumbozzie1539 It was not count Zeppelin, he was not alive at this time, it was Hugo Echner that was the head of the Zeppelin company at the time of the disaster and he was furious as you said
@@mikewizz1895 It's true that's what they do - a choo choo and ocassionaly tooot. That's a fact. And facts don't care about your feelings. Deal with it snowflake.
There are forums on the net that talk in depth on steam power and how it works. As Oscar said "It would take a lot of typing to tell" I would suggest one of the steam car clubs for information. Read a lot and politely ask questions. The closest in operation to a locomotive in operation is a traction engine . A friend of someone I know rebuilds those and its fascinating.
Came here to find out the cause of the accident, 7 minutes into the video: 7:26 "No-one knows for sure what caused the ship to catch on fire" Thanks, really cleared things up for me.
Here is a plausible hypothesis I read about. The Hindenburg may have steered too aggressively on approach which caused some structural damage that ruptured a hydrogen cell. When the mooring lines made contact with the ground it may have discharged some static electricity since everything was soaked from the rain. It would have just taken one small spark in the area with the leak to ignite.
The hindenburg dropped large quantities of ballast water from the aft moments before the explosion, in order to level out the tail. Could that have caused a build up of static electricity?
Possibly. The most accepted theory is that it was due to electrostatic arcing in front of the top tail fin and exposed wire reinforcement ties sewn through the skin sparked. The landing had been delayed due to an electrical storm and the airship developed a difference in voltage potential between the ship and ground. The most accepted theory is the spark was triggered when the first mooring ropes were dropped and touched the ground, allowing an electrical current path to ground passing through the frayed, exposed wiring. However, the ballast water theory has never been completely ruled out as a grounding source. The problem is the conflicting eye-witness accounts and the timing of the film.
THANK YOU!!! I just commented that he didn’t even say anything about that! I couldn’t understand what the guy in the black and white film was saying it was that it spilt out. I appreciate you!!! Now to Google what ‘Ballast water’ is. 😂
The fire was caused on the skin of the ship due to static electricity; the ship was one giant capacitor. When the hemp rope got wet from the rain, it became a conductor.
I don't think a static discharge would be strong enough to conduct that far. Rope is a very poor conductor, even when wet. It would require a fairly high voltage jolt to travel the length of the hemp rope. My speculation is that the ropes were dry, but served as a ground wire. The hemp ropes would've been anchored to something metal at both ends, and the ship-end would've connected to the metal frame somehow, which is far more conductive than than ship's skin. The rain in the storm(s) are probably what caused it to be positively charged inside and out. That's the thing -- just like if you were to stand on a power line, you wouldn't know there's a massive charge passing through you until you grounded yourself. The second the hemp ropes hit the ground, the charge has a pathway to the ground.
But there had to be a leak, something explosive has to be ignited by the static charge. the charge is a natural phenom everywhere but you can't have anything flammable in the contact. sometimes we see accidents at fueling stations with static.
Right. This is the map after the reunion of West and East Germany and not the one of 1937. And that time it was the German Empire (Deutsches Reich) and not Germany.
I remember reading somewhere that one of the Captains escaped the flames, but then turned back and re-entered the wreckage to help the injured. He was badly burnt but survived. I wonder if anyone would do that these days? I hope so.
@@notmenotme614 i saw that i live in AZ he ran from them jumped in and tried swimming to escape cops told him not going in. You know how risky it is to save a drowning man with no flotation devices? they will drag you down. He made his choice
In high school, I was in class preparing to use electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. The teacher explained that when we put a red hot wooden splint inside the test tube with the hydrogen it would explode with a "pop." When one of my classmates asked if hydrogen was explosive I said "Just ask the Hindenburg."
It didn’t explode so much as the covering was super flammable. The ship also had fuel for the engines and that could be what burnt through to the hydrogen cells which don’t burn very dangerously compared to petroleum fuel but caused lost of lift which allowed many to escape.
Whenever I see a "What happened to " title, I can't help remembering my mother's reaction in a shop to a shelf full of books about the Titanic. Pointing to one called "All you need to know about Titanic" she said "It sank, that's all you need to know". Good video though, I've always loved airships.
@@JaredOwen My mother has opinions. And if anyone doesn't like any of them, she's got a whole heap of others as well. I've never seen such a clear description of the interior of an airship. Thanks!
This is my favorite animation thus far! This should be shown in schools. It illustrates the power of media in forming future markets. It also shows that Helium filled air ships with modern safety features like parachutes would actually be a very good idea for future travel. Also, something not mentioned...The Hindenburg gas bladders were made of animal skins glued together. Modern materials would be waaaay better at preventing leaks.
Helium filled "airships" are still in use for transportation. Mostly for scientific (or military) purposes, transporting mastly cargo and not people, but there are plans to use them as cheap telephone/internet stations or to transport people and cargo to areas where it would he impossible to build a conventional airfield.
I find it weird how hydrogen, a flammable gas, and oxygen, a flammable gas, when combined create water, a nonflammable substance. Edit: Yes, I now know that oxygen isn't flammable.
Regular ol table salt comes from a mineral that, when exposed to water, bursts into flames and explodes. Take that, mix it with a poisonous gas, and put it in your salt shaker. Chemistry is a hell of a thing
@Zan People were gonna smoke onboard regardless of whether there was a dedicated smoking room or not. It's better to have all your smokers in a single controlled area instead of hiding in various places. It's why airline toilets still have ashtrays, the designers know people will smoke in the toilets and putting ashes in the bin is a fire hazard.
The hydrogen was not compressed. Airships such as these rely entirely on being lighter than the volume of air that they displace (same principles as a boat or submarine). Compressing hydrogen would make it denser, and completely defeat its function as a lifting gas. Not to mention pressure vessels for any substantial amount of hydrogen would be quite heavy.
@@andmos1001 Forgotten Weapons is a historical show on firearms and they have to blur the swastika on the flag they use to represent country of origin.
If you're here to find out a more detailed reason, it's highly likely that when turning in the stormy conditions, a cable detached and hit a hydrogen storage area. This would leak the gas, explaining the dip of the Hindenburg, and leak highly flammable gas. The Hindenburg was also, you guessed it, flammable. When the Hindenburg had a conductive cable touch the ground, literally grounding the ship. You have metal jumping across gaps of air to reach the conductive cable, so you get arcs of electricity. You know, the things we use to ignite gas in barbeque lighters. I don't know for sure this happened, but I found it in a documentary and given the evidence it seems very likely.
I recently watched a really really good documentary on this and the builder. For example, did not even support the Nazi party. He just took their money, and I think had a regret for that, and was extremely confident in the design and originally really just couldn’t figure out what it happened and why it happened because of all the risk mitigation in the many many trips that it had taken. Not helpful that I can’t remember the name of it, but it was extremely good. Excellent, EXCELLENT video here as always!!
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Amazing video.
Please make video about RAT (Ram Air Turbine)
Jared Owen this was beautifully animated with plenty of great details in both the animation and information provided. Bravo!
Note: because of a unrecommended sharp turn, a wire snapped and severed a gas bag and the mooring lines created a static spark.
What about the Saturn 5 was it bigger than that?
The balls to have a smoking room on this thing is impressive.
ikr ??? smoking on planes was also super common, and it wasn't officially banned in the united states until (my jaw dropped when I googled this) February 25th 1990. the fucking 90's bro. I'm in utter disbelief. People are so dumb omg.
OMG smoking on planes in the EU was banned in 1997 how are we not extinct
@@f0nk3m0n No way! That is crazy.
I flew to Germany in 95 and smoked on the plane.
I think they were referring to it being filled with a flammable gas, rather than than the comfort of non smokers!
never realised there was actually this much inside of an airship, thought it was just the control room hanging from the bottom
I thought the same.
Same
As a kid I thought the envelope was all filled with hydrogen and all the rooms were pressurized. I was like 6. I always liked to give ideas on how things worked, I was a smart lad.
that's a blimp in a zepplin the control room is built mostly into the structure because it's rigid where in a blimp it's not rigid ,but a balloon
@@Zelurpio quit your bullshit
These are the type of videos I watch at 2AM after i told myself I was going to bed at 12
That MN Kid that’s me
Relatable
That MN Kid literally 3am right now. i should be sleeping... but it can wait.
Same as I am hehe.
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My Great grandma is currently 93 and as I'm typing this, is alive. She was born in 1930 in Lakehurst NJ and was 9 at the time of the explosion her father was a crew member that was going to get the ship safely down. Fortunately he survived. My Great Grandma also watched the hidenburg come down. She was watching not too far at a nearby fence.
My great great cousin was the mail room on board. Said people sent each other a lot of naughty messages from the air.
how can you be 9 after 7 years until the explosion
@@ramdas363lmao humans never chamnge
@@ramdas363he was the entire mail room?!?!( srry had to make that joke)
@@Copper_snipezz that's impressive
*Germany should have used ExpressVPN to get Helium*
Oreo Sauce -suspicious amounts of online orders for helium coming from *checks notes* lincoln, nebraska, sir
-checks out, send it
@@AngelLestat2 ehh no, with helium the number of customers would be reduced but still would be rentable. maybe you are assuming that it would not be able to cross based in usa investigations and copy attempts, but these where a total failure and coudlnt even survive cross wind. also, von zeppelin was totally against nazi germany, but he had to get that swastika on his precious bird because usa didnt want to send HIM helium, this was because germany was the only country capable of cross the atlantic, not only passangers, but also with mail service, so it was a commercial block, nothing to do with nazi germany, that, before the war, was a potential ally to usa.
@@santiagoperez2094 I dont get your point. To fully understand mine I recommend you to read my answer on quora.
When I said that if the hindenburg would not be able to keep the range it had even with zero payload (no cabins, no passengers, no bed, nothing), I am just taking into account common sense in airships operation.
All the lift that is lost due 12% less buoyancy, plus the lift lost due to start with lower inflation because you can not vent helium because is expensive, not being able to counter all the weight lost of the fuel mass consumed meanwhile you are in travel or inject hydrogen into the engines to extend range and other helium drawbacks.
Is not just a matter that "it would not be so rentable", it can not cross the ocean so it would not be rentable at all unless it would be used just for short range trips, but what is the point to travel on land? for that you used a car or something similar.
At those times the benefic was the speed of airships vs ships.
About cross winds not sure what you mean, Zeppelings (from the zeppeling brand), had a lot of experience and they was well constructed (mostly due the extra buoyancy margin you get with hydrogen that can be used for reinforcements), they were in many storms and no passenger die.
it isnt a plane, it doesnt consume fuel to generate lift. it didnt got in any storm, in fact its perfect score was also there thnx to its tripulants, search about them
@@santiagoperez2094 I know everything about them.. they consume fuel to move... unless you are considering to be super lucky to have the wind with the direction and intensity to where you want to go :P
They were in many storms.. some lighting hit on them (I am speaking of the last models of zeppelins) and they were ok.
If you are gonna to discuss, try to make it with facts. Don't make me lose my time with internet trolling.
I read several books over airships in different languages.
Make the entire ship a giant flammable balloon.
"Lets give everyone a place to smoke."
Oh yeah guys let's light a camp fire it will be fun!
@@EASPORTSE775 *it wasn’t fun*
Ah yes I have an urge to smoke inside the giant hydrogen baloon
Really? You're complaining about a smoking room, but cooked meals are fine and dandy?
@@watchm4ker Make the entire ship a giant flammable balloon.
"Lets give everyone a place to cook."
_"More than half the people survived"_
Bruh, how. It was literally just a ball of fire.
"Since they're about to land, most passengers are already at the windows-"
@@ianseldoon1197 yeah, I just watched the Mustard video on it.
Hydrogen fires mostly explode upward vs other fuel source explosions which explode outwardly in all directions.
@@noellepatton8901 that and the pasenger area was on the bottom of the ship
Many of them survived with broken limbs after jumping. The longer they waited to jump, the lower their fall - but the more likely the airship's fiery form would land atop them. Timing was rather crucial.
I’ve always been fascinated with the Hindenburg disaster so it is great to see the workings of the ship in such detail. Thanks for all the hard work that obviously went into this!
I recall that a member of the Crew was trapped by the conflagration and had resigned himself to dying, when he was suddenly drenched by a veritable waterfall that came from a water ballast tank above him which fractured!
The flames around him were extinguished and so he was able to safely escape!
When I first read about his escape I was really happy for him, and how from facing a truly horrific death he was suddenly saved by a freak occurrence of the only possible means for his survival.
Your videos are fascinating in their meticulous detail, likewise your narration.
Meantime, when hydrogen burns, it combines with oxygen, producing H2O, water.
@@tomt373 Well, steam. Not nearly as helpful
and he lived to tell u this ?
@@Rexbraiku It's easily read about. No one's saying "he told me this while we ate doritos lol"
When God says live, you WILL live❤️🙌
"Unfortunately, most of the evidence was burned up."
You don't say.
that's my reaction lmao
@@ezmoney25 Hey, you don't find the Hindenburg disaster interesting
@@ezmoney25 Do you want to be my friend? I'm from Mexico
@@ezmoney25 America is cool
@@pico-official3425 what
It's weird that these giant airships were being designed before the tiny modern bike was even invented
NZREngine bike was invented 700 years ago go watch praveen mohan channel also vimanas or ufos were made 7,000 years ago. go pay your due dilligence.
@@TheGrandHistorians He means modern bikes, not like Charlie Chaplin looking crap, but i see what you mean
The Grand Historian *modern*
Man because of you they insult us
@@TheGrandHistorians UFOs wtf. Myths are not historical evidence.
More like "the grand crackpot"
The reason the fire started from the back was because the captain was pushing the Airship to its limits. That caused one of the control cables to snap and puncture the body of the airship. This combined with the static electricity phenomenon described in this video is what led to the spark that ignited the Hindenburg.
No, the static electricity built up between a hydrogen vent flap and the hull. Venting hydrogen was part of the docking procedure, but there was not supposed to be any static electricity. Someone must have used unsafe paint.
@@davidwuhrer6704you almost got it. It was the weather conditions, as well as the cross-Atlantic flight, that made the whole surface damp with salt water. Built up a huge charge. PBS Nova explains the whole thing
@@ThatGreyGentleman A charge compared to the ground was expected. There had been hundreds of crossings across the Atlantic before, and none of them ignited vented hydrogen. The issue in question is the charge between the flap and the hull, both of which had been exposed to the same weather conditions simultaneously.
Go back to school.
That is a good possibility, but the theory has its errors and thats part of the mystery. The ship was already heavy in the rear (lost more hydrogen there than further forward) and had to drop more aft ballast than usual before the radical maneuvers for the urgent landing took place. So the damage must already have happened while the ship was flying over the USA and waited for the thunderstorms to pass. None of the witnesses mentioned any hard maneuvers before and also the captain was not handling the wheel, as usual (since the bridge crew operated on their own without many commands by the captain during a landing). But a snapped tensioner cable is the most likely culprit anyway. This had happened before, since these piano wires actually made the aircraft rigid and are under heavy stress during turbulence and maneuvers.
@@davidwuhrer6704 The hydrogen, that gets vented controlled or from overpressure valves also goes into the vent shafts and not into the hull itself. This venting is actually even a safety measure, since the venting ensured that the gas cells only contain hydrogen and no oxygen needed for a combustion. But some amount of leakage happened anyway, a zeppelin needs some airflow through its hull all the time to remove the hydrogen gathering at the top. The slower the airship travels, the harder it gets to remove all the leaked hydrogen from its hull.
Not gonna lie, the air ships seem really cool
If someone will ever rebuild this airship with the same size or even bigger, i would like to pay a million to have a wedding party there. Traveling the world with your love one, its just like sailing but in the sky.
There are new airships that are being planned to be built.... the new luxury cruise ships of the sky
@@cclapew is this real? If it cost around 500k to 1,5 million usd to get everything i need. Definitely i will spend my money on it
Uuuuuuuntil they catch fire
@@akromimubarok6626 And no rush. Aircrafts nowadays travel for hours, which is too short to spend some time. Airship is one cool thing, but just to make sure it doesn't burn 😂.
It’s amazing anyone even survived this, let alone 62 out of the 97 passengers survived. Incredible… 🤯😳
(All of the passengers were nazıs)
@@samtheking5759 lmao
inb4 "the hidenberg disaster wasn't so bad, most people survived it" xD
Makes me wonder, if we could make the hazards irrelevant when constructing an explosion and fire proof passenger cabin with todays materials (aerogel-coat for fireproofing, carbon fibre for the walls etc.) and adding sensors and other preventive measures. A few autonomous cargo airships are currently in operation, but I think airships have a so bad image, that they wont be re-adopted for passenger transport anytime soon. And helium is not future proof because of rising prices due to it's supply being limited.
@@haifutter4166 I think people would much rather take a plane just because it's way faster
My grandfather was a german teen when he served on the Hindenburg as the accident happened but somehow he managed to survive the tragedy. After that he wrote a 1 of 1 book which afterwards he handed over to us about it with a lot pictures and explainings whose describe how he could survive. Truly heartbreaking and devastating. Unfortunately he died 2014 as last survivor of the Hindeburg. If you guys are interested in the book I could share some pictures, but beware, everything is written in german for those who don't understand !
A quick Google search says the last survivor died in 2019. Werner G. Doehner - and he was only 8 at the time of the accident.
I would love to see the book what's your Instagram?
@@damsbaug33 My fault. Werner Doehner was the last surviving passenger. My grandfather who died back in 2014 was the last surving crew member of the Hindenburg.
@@lecuz5400 Sure ! sthweirdhppnd
Werner Franz?
Wow, incredible video with the animation. It is exactly what I was looking to understand. I visited a museum that presented the Hindenburg and I had no idea there were passengers in it.
Thank you very much for sharing and keeping this video up!
My mother was 11 at the time. She said people could see the smoke 80 miles away in Bergenfield.
Wow
Wow
Aimee Ward My Mother was inside her Mother at the time of the disaster. My Mom wasn’t born till December 1937.
Amy Thomas lets find out who the f%uck asked
Dusan Ristic oh such a potty mouth!
Crisp and clear animation to show how the layout of the thing is. I'm an aircraft design engineer and it's definitely interesting to see how they designed this.
Thank you for the fantastic explanation!
😁
Great, easy-to-understand images in this superb video, I agree that your work of the illustrators art shows the interior really well.
You do great work, I have subscribed in a second. I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Danke für dieses Video. Was oft missverstanden wird: Ja, Helium ist schwerer als Wasserstoff. Wenn wir das vergleichen müssen wir das Gewicht aber gegen Luft (28,949 g/mol) vergleichen. Und dann wirkt Helium (4.003 g/mol) nicht mehr soooo viel schwerer als Wasserstoff (2,01588 g/mol).
Wirklich so! Sie haben recht.
Another episode of where quarantine has gotten me
Alyssa Nguyen most relatable comment ever
Alyssa Nguyen same
Alyssa Nguyen so relatable lmao
Lol same
Lol same
Flying over brazil in this thing would've been the coolest thing ever
Zulul
Your 66 th like
YOU’RE GOING TO BRAZIL 🇧🇷
Yeah it’s cool until the landing
actually the Hindenburg made a round the world trip and yes Brazil too. There are photos that had been
taken over Rio, visible at the Zeppelin Museum in Zeppelinheim near Frankfurt. Actually a village which
was created just for all the employees at the Zeppelin company, as it was just at almost waking distance
of the airport. You can look at it on google maps.
Having a smoking room on a ship full of hydrogen has the same energy as not having enough life boats because you think your ship is unsinkable
The hydrogen wasn't the main cause of the accident, instead the aluminium powder laced cellulose skin caused the initial fire.
Not really because it was pressurised, completely safe, and there was a single electric lighter used by the steward to light up the cigars, cigarettes, or pipes of the passengers. You couldnt bring your own lighter aboard or anything that could be considered dangerous.
The titanic not having enough lifeboats is a common misconception and actually had /more/ lifeboats than the recommended amount
@@willknight13 Yeah the thinking at the time was the liveboats would be used for multiple trips between a nearby rescue ship
It was a beautiful airship and operated safely for years. Still the largest flying object ever built.
I'm putting together a wooden "static model" kit of the Hindenburg. The details I could make and add from your intensive research is inspiring.
Aside from classic filmed crash, this video is the best I've ever seen.
Amazing work. In my favorite list.
Titanic: I'm cold.
Hindenburg: I'm hot.
edit: wow 3000 likes this is my most liked comment!
😂👍
LMFAO
put them together you get ... titan-icburge. ... one letter away and its a bad day.
Speaking of Titanic, He should do an animation about Titanic!
It's so true XD
Hydrogen: Extremely flammable
Engineers: Hey! Let's add a smoking room, too!
..you are poorly informed on the subject. Room was pressurised exactly because of that. In those days nobody would travel on that airship without being able to smoke. And again this was not the cause of the disaster. 🤦🏻♂️
@Diego Jimenez ..not as dumb as your idiotic comment! Have you ever designed anything in your life? Maybe the arrangement of condiments on your sandwich! 😂🤦🏻♂️
If the room wasn't there, people would still have smoked. This gave them a safe place to do it.
*adds smoking room*
“ah yes, fire and hydrogen mix very well, nien?”
People really have to be rude these days.
That's crazy how 100 years later with all the tech we have now, that this still trumps the size of any modern aircraft today
Consider that the majority of the volume was just for the gas: most airliners can carry the same amount of passengers
Crazy how we've had flying carriages (cars) called airplanes for over 100 years and people still ask why we don't have flying cars yet. Smh
@@J.Wolf90 we do, they just suck. There’s no demand for flying cars and I’m pretty glad we don’t have any. There are 102 major car accidents per day in the USA; flight accidents are much more lethal and destructive. Imagine if you had a country where the vehicles combined the accessibility of cars with the power of flying vehicles. We’d need extensive testing, much more than our current driving tests, to let people own them, and anyone who wants to might as well skip the fantasy and buy a Cessna or something.
@@sasasa1541 yeah if you really want a flying car just get your pilots license and buy an airplane. the airplane IS the flying car. People want something that they can park in their garage but that will never happen. There are too many safety hazards and restrictions on aircraft's that you're better off just buying a normal plane. But anyways flying cars really are just airplanes
@@kuckoo9036 Dude, it's 1930s technology. Hybrid airships potentially can carry a lot more. Concepts for large hybrid airships can carry 1000 tons of cargo.
Судя по последним исследованиям, всему виной обшивка гинденбурга, состоявшая из целюлозы и алюминиевой пудры, по сути, ракетным топливом, хватило малейшей искры, чтобы обшивка вспыхнула, а дальше в дело вступил водород...
OMG, you make the greatest animations of the internet!
Thanks Hugo😁
For real.
your sample size is small, very very small
GYANDEEP SINGH (B15EE014) indian
Couldn't agree with you more!
2/3rd of the passengers surviving a 1 minute crash has always been the most astonishing part to me. Those people were booking it.
I was today's years old when I learned there even WERE survivors
Germany, however had a flawless record so far
Hindenburg : I'mma bout' to destroy this nation's reputation .
To be fair the first accident in the list LZ-104 was a German airship, built by Zeppelin, but it was a military vessel so technically no "passengers" were killed. It is also unclear why LZ-104 exploded as it happened over water and there were no survivors.
@@EarMaster55 thanks fir the info
That's stupid.
@@2ndplatooncmdrofUSNAVYSEAL Because?
world war II also did it but worse
Nice computer simulation. Observations: 1) The smoking room was kept at a negative atmospheric pressure to prevent any sparks or embers from accidentally traveling outwards. Your arrows in the depiction should be facing the other way. 2) The great circle route from Germany to Lakehurst takes you far north, almost to Greenland. Your depiction shows an impossibly long route over the Atlantic.
There should be a movie of this disaster like titanic
for only 1 minute of disaster? nah thanks
yeah dude that movie would last like 10 minutes max
that's dumb
For something that lasted like 50 seconds is an animation, not a film.
And it is even a waste of resources.
I mean, we have the original footage! Which is slot better!
It was called Indiana Jones and last crusade
I don't think airships are obsolete. They would be awesome as a luxury cruise much like ships. long distance travel will be dominated by fixed wing but airships can still be use for luxury cruises.
Matthew Morycinski
Until we start running fusion reactors, then we’ll have heaps of helium. But weight will always be the issue with airships. Another disadvantage, they operate at levels that subject them to a lot of weather, whereas modern aircraft cruise well above the weather. They could probably use dehumidifiers to capture water. Like you, I don’t think they’d be suitable as cruise liners, but maybe some billionaire might like a private Airyacht. Great platform for viewing things like the America’s Cup, or F1 Grand Prix.
I’m afraid they’re always going to be unwieldy things, close to the ground, in turbulent weather. Severe wind shear could spin one out of control, though modern vectored thrust would help mitigate this.
Sorry, just rambling. Must be time for bed.
That's what first class, private jets and yachts are for
Airships can also be used as flying cargo ships due to restricted weight limit of fixed wing aircraft.
Levente Lénárt Try to put a swimming pool on an airship!
these are fuel efficient as well
Imagine being the poor dude who had to tell the Fuhrer about the loss of his prized airship :/
🥺
Prolly got shot out of anger ya know
Sanchez King Fegelein did it
"Hello?"
"Hindenburg is ded"
"no"
Okuyasu Nijimura whre wer u wen Hindenburg diye
My grandma passed last year at 102 years and told us many times about seeing the Hindenburg docked in NY when she was a child. A few years later the disaster happened.
Would probably feel like a badass running out of a massive burning wreck.
Emuli V nothing as badass as running for your life after leaving your loved ones to die horribly
@@alex0589 running with broken legs
And dying anyway, due to radiant heat giving you 3rd degree burns on your back and neck.
After you kick them smelly clumps out of the ends of your pants legs and wipe yourself, yeah.
Oh yeah lol your sick
I would so have an anxiety attack just from a guy lighting a cig in the
blimp
Not even a blimp
Me too, but they did have very strict regulations in the smoking room.... they were very aware of the danger.
It's not a blimp. Blimps don't have an airframe. That's why it's called a dirigible, it has an internal, structural frame.
@@buckhorncortez Fair enough!
Muy bueno, tanto el texto como la animación. 👏👏👏
I didn't know the Nazis used Minecraft Beds
They did its it crazy
Well. Nazis are red and Minecraft beds are red so.
Ferrei SD it’s it crazy I think they did it crazy it’s
*Meinkraft
@@ferreisd71 mojang is Nazi. *CONFIRMED* .
Is no one going to talk about the amazing animating?
I can do that but not with that platform bcuz EXPENSIVE PC REQUIRED
Um people are talking about it. Miss me with your stupid comment
New to the channel?
I am new channel
I am new to this channel
Great video! Loved the animations. Very clear and easy to understand.
First time visitor and not the last of my visits. Amazing graphic work. You’ve earned a new subscriber.
If you don't have ticket you will get throw off of the ship
takuro 85 « no ticket »
Ticket please
Haha Indiana Jones reference!!
Cant belive someone still remembers it
Yeah like United Airlines do everyday :/
I grew up in Ocean County and it has always amazed me that something of historic significance happened there.
Same! I live in Manchester! Wild!
Such a graceful machine being destroyed is quite saddening I won’t lie
Im going to be rich and rebuild this wonderful airship
@@akromimubarok6626 i hope so
Umm... The people, too.
I'm not sure if it was on the fatal last flight, but from what I've read, the Hindenburg on at least one occasion flew directly over the location where Titanic sunk over two decades earlier (and apparently the passengers on the airship looked down from the windows in sad remembrance). If true, what a CREEPY coincidence, and foreshadowing!
@@thunderbird1921
Holy crud 😳
I have always wondered what it looked like inside. Your video is the first time that has been illustrated (that I’ve ever seen anyway) & it is EXCELLENT. Thank you so much for your work and talent! 👍🏻
other countries: hydrogen filled airships are dangerous.
germany: uhm yeah no
Well, America didn't want to give helium to Germany.
@@alexmudkip5974 Probably because every time Hitler started hollering, his voice pitch went up like he was breathing the stuff on a regular basis. 😁
kippt USA also: let’s c * zap! *
the americans shot it down thats what really happened
@@johnw2026 Nah, the Western countries didn't really like Germany even before Hitler's government (NSDAP/DNVP coalition) was elected in 1933.
There's just something so majestic about airships that makes me kind of sad that they're gone.
Ok, enough nostalgia. Airships never had a very good safety record even without fires. They're just too susceptible to storms and other weather.
Well, from an engineering perspective, airships are majestic too, not because of some kind if nostalgia but because of their functionality. Until today their hasn't been a much more energy efficient way to travel through the air, than using an airship, in fact, airships might make a comeback as a super efficient transportation methode.
Dr Hugo Eckener, the head honcho of the Zeppelin company, has been quoted as saying that he was well aware of the psychological effect of seeing a large airship in the sky. Incredibly impressive, I say. What a sight they must have been. *sigh**
Yea, the US navy lost a lot people in air ship crashes, and used helium.
As majestic as they do look, as you said they also have a serious risk factor. Any storm or big cross wind. Yikes. I do appreciate the look of them. They do glide seamlessly through the air but any little hiccup could be tragic.
The sounded like the best ship to fly and chill on sad it broke
F3ARM3 broke
@@intrst4532 LOL
Hàha
Only cause the US was selfish with not providing helium for sale
@@FlyLeah they did that because they didn't want them making helium bombers, not being selfish or something
日本語での解説、ありがとうございます。字幕は完璧でしたが漢字の読み間違いが多かったです。ひらがなの部分と区切り方は完璧だったので、漢字にひらがなでルビを付けて読まれたら、すごく良くなると思います。
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excellent video, there was however much more to the landing attempt, like a 3 hour delay waiting for weather to clear up, and three water ballast drops to level the ship. further indicating a gas leak. but i thoroughly enjoyed the ship design presentation.
lol because they were sissy's modern pilots can do it in two🤣
im really glad you didnt censor history
And I’m really glad that You Tube has not demonetized him ( yet?) For being historically accurate.
Lily Furley fuck U
@@eyyo_0236 Thats Fucking Rude!
@@eyyo_0236 heeeeere snowflake heeeeere snowflake
Bay max steve why are you mad wtf are you cocaine
If I could bring any technology back from the past it would probably be these zeppelin airships. They are so cool, would love to see them flying low over the city.
if i saw a zeppelin over my city i would get in the car and drive
@@archiewood4599 i live in Germany and here are some Zeppelins :D
I think there is a museum in Europe with a recreation of one of the airships.
Same! I so want to go in one before I die
Fun fact! If we can make Zeppelin out of Graphene, then we won't need any hydrogen or helium. The only reason why Zeppelins need those gas is that such a large metal frame can't keep its shape and be light enough to fly at the same time.
Het was zeker leuk om te kijken. Mooi gemaakt en heel wat duidelijker dan zwart-wit beelden uit de jaren 30
Bro, just watched for the first time. Although I'm late to the party, I needed to say - thank you. This is excellent content. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. Well done!
Thanks Jeff😀
I've heard it mentioned by others that a thunderstorm was building at the time, which could easily have been the cause of the static buildup
I saw an investigative documentary on this the other day, and they did a serries of test to prove that large static charges could have easily occurred under the conditions that day.
Or a “ tracer “ round from a rifle in the nearby woods …
Great video and much more informative than any other videos I’ve seen published. Nice computer rendering of the interior layout of the ship, never seen that before.
Brief description:
He doesn't know what happened either.
thx
I’m guessing a cigarette spark made it’s way into the hydrogen or lightning stuck the gas
@Eric Miret shut up it’s just a guess b
@@CouchPotato-my1oj bc ur wrong
@@poncianof.amorin9455 it’s just a guess karen
The technology for its time was amazing. Less than 50 years earlier and the main forms of transportation were the horse and buggy, and maybe a steam powered locomotive or ship if you were able to afford the price. It really is amazing when you look at how fast technology grew throughout the 20th century and compare that throughout the rest of history and so much of it came from Germany.
... including the technology to round up and murder millions of innocent people.
Nah I mean planes existed at this point too
I think the Germans had GREAT ideas that i wish could have been fulfilled.
@@maplebear6527Отличные идеи?))) например уничтожение нации в концлагерях?
4:44 Small detail but at the time Germanys borders were different than what’s pictured. Their eastern border extended further into modern day Poland past the Oder river and they owned an enclave in East Prussia.
Fantastic job, Jared! Clear, understandable and full of information. Thank you!
Static electricity for sure! When they threw the ropes down they hit the water that was in puddles on the ground! The charge went up the ropes and kaboom!
C.S.R 🤯🤯🤯
Who knows though. Couldn't the air be surcharged with static electricity because of the storms that passed through?
Eh..
The charge always goes down to the ground, just like when you touch (or at least should do) your car after getting off on a gas station, before getting the gasoline. The rest could be as you say.
@@PlebanMuzeum That makes a lot of sense. :)
"they used Hydrogen."
Me: *spits drink* "THEY _WHAT?!_ "
They used hydrogen
@@matdattein *WHAT WAS THAT?*
@@matdattein they _WHAT_
TheSoftDrink gen of hydro
The Germans successfully flew hydrogen airships through thunder and lightning storms. Hydrogen was viewed as safe so long as proper safety procedures were adhered to. Some wonder if it was sabotage that did the Hindenburg in.
Great video. Thank you for all the info.
謎に満ちていた飛行船事故をわかりやすい日本語で解説していただき、ありがとうございます！FromJapan.
The most wide held theory now is that the airship tried to turn too quickly causing too much stress on the rear section.. This damage led to rupture of the rear gas bags which then ignited.. The resulting chain reaction throughout the airship caused the final destruction...
@@somedumbozzie1539 It was not count Zeppelin, he was not alive at this time, it was Hugo Echner that was the head of the Zeppelin company at the time of the disaster and he was furious as you said
Can you do: How a locomotive/steam locomotive works?
Great video btw!
It just goes choo choo. Thats all
@@jacekmak87 This comment kinda annoys me, just because of how you think trains work. I hope it was a joke
@@mikewizz1895 It's true that's what they do - a choo choo and ocassionaly tooot. That's a fact. And facts don't care about your feelings. Deal with it snowflake.
There are forums on the net that talk in depth on steam power and how it works. As Oscar said "It would take a lot of typing to tell" I would suggest one of the steam car clubs for information. Read a lot and politely ask questions. The closest in operation to a locomotive in operation is a traction engine . A friend of someone I know rebuilds those and its fascinating.
You really explain everything so well! Awesome video, dude
😁
Agrred
This is a great animation!! extremely well done! Thank you very much for doing it.
Came here to find out the cause of the accident, 7 minutes into the video:
7:26 "No-one knows for sure what caused the ship to catch on fire"
Thanks, really cleared things up for me.
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Here is a plausible hypothesis I read about.
The Hindenburg may have steered too aggressively on approach which caused some structural damage that ruptured a hydrogen cell. When the mooring lines made contact with the ground it may have discharged some static electricity since everything was soaked from the rain. It would have just taken one small spark in the area with the leak to ignite.
@theo nicole Houston if it was the smoking room the explosion would be in the front
The hindenburg dropped large quantities of ballast water from the aft moments before the explosion, in order to level out the tail. Could that have caused a build up of static electricity?
You could be right about that .
Possibly. The most accepted theory is that it was due to electrostatic arcing in front of the top tail fin and exposed wire reinforcement ties sewn through the skin sparked. The landing had been delayed due to an electrical storm and the airship developed a difference in voltage potential between the ship and ground. The most accepted theory is the spark was triggered when the first mooring ropes were dropped and touched the ground, allowing an electrical current path to ground passing through the frayed, exposed wiring. However, the ballast water theory has never been completely ruled out as a grounding source. The problem is the conflicting eye-witness accounts and the timing of the film.
THANK YOU!!! I just commented that he didn’t even say anything about that! I couldn’t understand what the guy in the black and white film was saying it was that it spilt out. I appreciate you!!! Now to Google what ‘Ballast water’ is. 😂
The fire was caused on the skin of the ship due to static electricity; the ship was one giant capacitor. When the hemp rope got wet from the rain, it became a conductor.
Yes.
That can’t be. The ropes went down quite a while before the explosion.
I don't think a static discharge would be strong enough to conduct that far. Rope is a very poor conductor, even when wet. It would require a fairly high voltage jolt to travel the length of the hemp rope.
My speculation is that the ropes were dry, but served as a ground wire. The hemp ropes would've been anchored to something metal at both ends, and the ship-end would've connected to the metal frame somehow, which is far more conductive than than ship's skin. The rain in the storm(s) are probably what caused it to be positively charged inside and out. That's the thing -- just like if you were to stand on a power line, you wouldn't know there's a massive charge passing through you until you grounded yourself.
The second the hemp ropes hit the ground, the charge has a pathway to the ground.
I heard that the paint used on the airship was extremely flammable and that was one reason the fire spread so fast. Has anyone else heard this?
But there had to be a leak, something explosive has to be ignited by the static charge. the charge is a natural phenom everywhere but you can't have anything flammable in the contact. sometimes we see accidents at fueling stations with static.
man gave us a whole 5 star tour of the hiddenburg
Excellent graphics and an actual human voiceover ✅
4:50 This map shows what Germany looked like after 1990, very different from what it looked like in 1937.
it needs most of silesia, pomerania and east prussia
Right. This is the map after the reunion of West and East Germany and not the one of 1937. And that time it was the German Empire (Deutsches Reich) and not Germany.
* 4:44
@@gamering2354 danke
Fun fact: Led Zeppelin used a picture of Hidenburg on fire in their first album's artwork
the album was released on January 12th, 1969; 32 years after the disaster
They also got their bands name from a radio station making fun of their band not having a name and said they were going down like a lead zeppelin
@@lust4power Half correct. It was Keith Moon that gave them the idea for the name. Same quote though.
Duh
what album is it? mothership?
If theres no hindenburg accident imagine zeppelin technology today
I think the world would still switch to modern airplane anyway
@@aleph_zero1 Nah dog, balloons are way better.
I'd imagine that at some point engines got powerful enough using hydrogen/hellium balloons for lift wasn't worth it anymore.
Now days a few companies are working on making new airships and using jet streams they will compete with the speed of jets
@Niko MyCousin Not inflammable - would use helium, not hydrogen
great video! Thanks for the time put into it! I shared it to my blog
I remember reading somewhere that one of the Captains escaped the flames, but then turned back and re-entered the wreckage to help the injured. He was badly burnt but survived. I wonder if anyone would do that these days? I hope so.
It’s in the news today that 3 cops in Arizona stood and watched a man drown as they said to him “I’m not going after you”
@@notmenotme614 i saw that i live in AZ he ran from them jumped in and tried swimming to escape cops told him not going in. You know how risky it is to save a drowning man with no flotation devices? they will drag you down. He made his choice
@@notmenotme614 cops have my full support
@@valgo8128 full support to stand there and do nothing to help
@@notmenotme614 Nobody expects them to jump in
In high school, I was in class preparing to use electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. The teacher explained that when we put a red hot wooden splint inside the test tube with the hydrogen it would explode with a "pop." When one of my classmates asked if hydrogen was explosive I said "Just ask the Hindenburg."
Idiot that was an elestrostatic effect
1 plus 1 is 11
…and ask, why the US had an embargo for Helium for German Zeppelins.
It didn’t explode so much as the covering was super flammable. The ship also had fuel for the engines and that could be what burnt through to the hydrogen cells which don’t burn very dangerously compared to petroleum fuel but caused lost of lift which allowed many to escape.
Whenever I see a "What happened to " title, I can't help remembering my mother's reaction in a shop to a shelf full of books about the Titanic. Pointing to one called "All you need to know about Titanic" she said "It sank, that's all you need to know".
Good video though, I've always loved airships.
Good point Zac! I guess "All you need to know" is kind of a relative statement. Thanks for watching my video
@@JaredOwen My mother has opinions. And if anyone doesn't like any of them, she's got a whole heap of others as well.
I've never seen such a clear description of the interior of an airship. Thanks!
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@@ashwinv3750 youre just a dumb person so shut up
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Great video. Always am making sure to see new videos. Good luck! 🍀
This was actually my science homework, Lucky you made this video! Thank you!
Gonna get that a ? Good luck
Glad to help out!
Lucky
lol what the freak happen to steve
What's you gets in meths
This is my favorite animation thus far! This should be shown in schools. It illustrates the power of media in forming future markets. It also shows that Helium filled air ships with modern safety features like parachutes would actually be a very good idea for future travel.
Also, something not mentioned...The Hindenburg gas bladders were made of animal skins glued together. Modern materials would be waaaay better at preventing leaks.
Thank you for your comment!
Helium filled "airships" are still in use for transportation. Mostly for scientific (or military) purposes, transporting mastly cargo and not people, but there are plans to use them as cheap telephone/internet stations or to transport people and cargo to areas where it would he impossible to build a conventional airfield.
Helium..
You do know how rare helium is, right?
@@camojoe83 We use it in balloons in industrial quantities.
The only way airships could make a resurgence is with hydrogen lifting gas.
Simple economics and operations mean that helium would never work.
I find it weird how hydrogen, a flammable gas, and oxygen, a flammable gas, when combined create water, a nonflammable substance.
Edit: Yes, I now know that oxygen isn't flammable.
-ve x -ve = +ve
@@ar.malavikajayan2485 could you dumb it down please.
@@imtootiredforthis7694 negative x negative = positive
as flammable x flammable = nonflammable
@@waterdoggo4998 some brilliant minds here. I feel unqualified to be here actually!
Regular ol table salt comes from a mineral that, when exposed to water, bursts into flames and explodes. Take that, mix it with a poisonous gas, and put it in your salt shaker. Chemistry is a hell of a thing
That Was Very Cool! Heard About It My Whole Life & Saw The Famous News Clip But You Made It Very Interesting. Thank You.
"Hey let's put a smoking room in the place where there is the most amount of hydrogen compressed in the whole world like wtf could go wrong" 😤🙌
If there wasn’t a smoking room no one at the time would board it
The smoking room actually made the ship safer.
@Zan People were gonna smoke onboard regardless of whether there was a dedicated smoking room or not.
It's better to have all your smokers in a single controlled area instead of hiding in various places. It's why airline toilets still have ashtrays, the designers know people will smoke in the toilets and putting ashes in the bin is a fire hazard.
The most forbidden documentary in history:
“Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org
archive.org/details/EUROPATheLastBattle
The hydrogen was not compressed. Airships such as these rely entirely on being lighter than the volume of air that they displace (same principles as a boat or submarine). Compressing hydrogen would make it denser, and completely defeat its function as a lifting gas. Not to mention pressure vessels for any substantial amount of hydrogen would be quite heavy.
*sees swastika*
RUclips: DEMONITIZED
Even though he animates that symbol burning at the end and the real airship had the swastika on it, RUclips always takes shit out of context.
Killergaming well, it is an historical design on the Hindenburg.
@@andmos1001 Forgotten Weapons is a historical show on firearms and they have to blur the swastika on the flag they use to represent country of origin.
Authenticity, not ideology.
Titanium Rain Liberals are so incredible sensitive
Wonderfully done, Jared. You explained everything so clearly. Outstanding job with the visuals as well!
Am I the only one who noticed the bathrooms, only on B deck , Mens and Womens a bit confusing and small for 100 people...
Alternate reality shows when they need a way to transport: *AIR SHIPS*
Fascinating video, first time I've ever seen such a detailed tour of the interior.
Hydrogen shouldn't have the same color of the other elements :)
But that's just the best explanation I ever saw.
Great video - so much information in that short clip!
Famous Quote “Oh The Humanity”
sir japan is invading China should we put this in the papers?
NO PUT IN THE STORY OF THE HINDENBURG. OH THE HUMANITY!
A close call.
@Matthew Morycinski well of course he did the largest flying vehicle ever just turned into rubble killing like 37 people right in front of him.
Famous Quote "Oh the Huge Manatee"
@@sweetlildevil7597 Manatee: come on man that's not cool, you know I'm sensitive about my weight
"What happened to the Hindenburg?"
It crashed, EXPRESSVPN, goodbye
If you're here to find out a more detailed reason, it's highly likely that when turning in the stormy conditions, a cable detached and hit a hydrogen storage area. This would leak the gas, explaining the dip of the Hindenburg, and leak highly flammable gas. The Hindenburg was also, you guessed it, flammable. When the Hindenburg had a conductive cable touch the ground, literally grounding the ship. You have metal jumping across gaps of air to reach the conductive cable, so you get arcs of electricity. You know, the things we use to ignite gas in barbeque lighters. I don't know for sure this happened, but I found it in a documentary and given the evidence it seems very likely.
This Video was fun and very informative. We thank for putting love and passion that makes this documentation Interesting.
Thank You.
Your welcome!
I recently watched a really really good documentary on this and the builder. For example, did not even support the Nazi party. He just took their money, and I think had a regret for that, and was extremely confident in the design and originally really just couldn’t figure out what it happened and why it happened because of all the risk mitigation in the many many trips that it had taken. Not helpful that I can’t remember the name of it, but it was extremely good.
Excellent, EXCELLENT video here as always!!
Wonderfully produced video, again. So interesting to learn about the internal features of this iconic and gigantic airship. Well done!