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A 5 page paper on the Hindenburg and the Hindenburg disaster. The paper focuses on the fact that the disaster occurred because of a flammable material used to paint the outside of the Hindenburg. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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history and learn of WWII and the Nazis. As one author notes, "what matters is not whether something is true but whether people believe, or can be led to believe,
that it is true" (Gray, 2004). So, for the most part people are still unaware of what caused the mysterious disaster that brought the age of the dirigible to an
end. The following paper examines the disaster, while also examining the history of the Hindenburg, and then illustrates how the Hindenburg disaster was due to a flammable material used in
painting the outside of the dirigible. The Hindenburg "It was the largest airship ever built; over eight-hundred feet long from its nose to its massive tail fins. It
was the height of luxury travel and carried over 2,656 people across the Atlantic from Germany to New York and Rio de Janeiro" (Krystek, 2001). The men who designed and
built the Hindenburg had designed it to use helium, which is a non flammable gas. However, due to political tensions between the United States, which possessed natural helium sources, and
Germany the helium was never obtained and thus the designers had no choice but to turn to hydrogen (Krystek, 2001). Interestingly enough, the future of the dirigible looked
very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time. It was an exciting future for
many. But, at the same time there were political tensions between the United States and Germany and as such this likely played a large role in why dirigibles and the
future of dirigibles ended with the Hindenburg disaster. The Hindenburg set out from Frankfurt to New York and as it reached land in New Jersey, just as the men
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