Catastrophe of Hindenburg

The catastrophe of Hindenburg is an aeronautical accident which has occurred the May 6th 1937, on the airport of Lakehurst not far from New York. During this accident, the airship German Hindenburg, inflated with the Dihydrogène (200 000 m ³ of flammable gas) took fire, and in less than one minute, the death of 37 people caused among the 97 who were on board, ringing the knell of the flights of commercial airships.

The fire of the Zeppelin Hindenburg very easily, and, is a little quickly allotted to the presence of dihydrogene. But it would seem in fact that it is the combined combustion of dihydrogene and the coating of the envelope, called Dope. This coating made up of layers of butyrate, of aluminum and iron oxide, would have caused a aluminothermic reaction, returning the combustion of the airship much faster, producing the many times diffused spectacular images of topicality.

In the beginning the airship was to be filled of Hélium, gas nonflammable, but the the United States had imposed an embargo (suspension of exports of one or more products towards a state as sanction or of means of pressure.) on helium on the Germany.

In this accident the origin of the “syndrome of the Hindenburg is”; the populations were afraid of dihydrogene. Thus, a direct consequence was name “gas water” of distributed gas for domestic use coming from the coking plant S before the arrival of the Natural gas. In fact this “gas water” was made up to 96% of dihydrogene, but the term hydrogen would have handicapped the distribution of this gas.

This accident also put a term quasi final at the construction of zeppelins and given a bad idea of helium to the public which since generally believes that the airship was filled with helium and that this gas is flammable.

Hindenburg ” will limit this development and the acceptance of this technology by the population. Many impact tests, of crushing on prototypes of dihydrogene tanks were made wanting to simulate accidents of vehicles… The dihydrogene, far from dense, flees very quickly and sets fire to it is not the stone of obstacle of this system… --> The Film catastrophe the Odyssey of Hindenburg (1975) reports this tragic event.

The fire is also represented on the small pocket of the first album, éponyme, of Led Zeppelin.

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