Robert B. Bonner wrote:
> Yeah it was a Flight #XXX (insert your favorite disaster here) disaster in
> SLOW MOTION. I have watched the footage maybe 100 times and it is one of
> the saddest things to watch as an airline pilot.
>
> No body knows the exact nature of the fire, that's what's so spooky. My
> theory is the wireless operator was in QSO with W2HCW at the time of
> landing.
I saw a documentary that delved into the paint used on the Hindenburg. They
claimed it included
aluminum power and some other chemical (butyl?) that made it approximate rocket
fuel. They found a
patch of material from the old Hindeburg, flame tested it, and it looked like a
sparkler going off.
One point they made...hydrogen burns with a nearly invisible flame. So the
brightness for the
Hindenburg fire suggests that something else was burning.
Apparently hydrogen floats upward so quickly, that when a gaseous release burns
it doesn't do much
damage at ground level.
So, don't paint your amps with aluminum power (there! on topic.)
jeff, wa1hco
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