Cartoon world appreciated, but tangentally – Hydrogen was not the Hindenberg’s problem.Has been researched, studied – There was a (PBS??) documentary should be able to find on internet… New airship was proudly painted with a new, bright, silvery-shiny paint on the canvas outer skin. Made with powdered aluminium, and other ingredients… Turns out that for all intents and purposes, skin was coated with … rocket fuel. … Of course, hydrogen is flammable, and it DID burn… But as noted, low density, great lifting power, it would have burned almost invisibly, mostly blue-ish, and mostly straight UP. That well-known news film even in black and white, and many eye-witness testimony, burned and raced incredibly fast – fiercely bright ORANGE – YELLOW. If not for the ‘rocket fuel’, Hindenberg may have crashed and burned, but would have settled slowly to ground, as Hydrogen gasbags caught sequentially as fire spread, and as flammable as it is… would have spread comparatively slowly from bag to bag, and the H would need to get mixed with the AIR to burn as bags were breached… But for the ‘rocket fuel’, good probability that most if not all passengers and crew could have walked away from wreckage.
JollyRoger56 over 12 years ago
The Goodyear Blimp, Dean!
DavidMac over 12 years ago
Frank Cho obviously flunked chemistry.
Nebulous Premium Member over 12 years ago
Yeah, but Helium’s several times more expensive.Nothing’s going to happen as long as nobody does anything stupid.Oh, wait…
Captain Colorado over 12 years ago
“Oh, the humanity!”
wgs over 12 years ago
Oriole Park at Camden Yards is going up in flames???
laseyboy over 12 years ago
Helium is not flammable.
ninetoes over 12 years ago
Do coyotes really use rocket skates to chase roadrunners? Don’t let the real world stop you from enjoying the joke people.
Rush Strong Premium Member over 12 years ago
“Oh, the hilarity!”
KasperV over 12 years ago
The Hindenburg’s outer skin was coated with iron oxide & aluminium … which is rocket fuel. Bad idea …
David Smirh over 12 years ago
Just another case of a cartoonist changing reality to make a joke work.
Grumpy-DC over 12 years ago
Cartoon world appreciated, but tangentally – Hydrogen was not the Hindenberg’s problem.Has been researched, studied – There was a (PBS??) documentary should be able to find on internet… New airship was proudly painted with a new, bright, silvery-shiny paint on the canvas outer skin. Made with powdered aluminium, and other ingredients… Turns out that for all intents and purposes, skin was coated with … rocket fuel. … Of course, hydrogen is flammable, and it DID burn… But as noted, low density, great lifting power, it would have burned almost invisibly, mostly blue-ish, and mostly straight UP. That well-known news film even in black and white, and many eye-witness testimony, burned and raced incredibly fast – fiercely bright ORANGE – YELLOW. If not for the ‘rocket fuel’, Hindenberg may have crashed and burned, but would have settled slowly to ground, as Hydrogen gasbags caught sequentially as fire spread, and as flammable as it is… would have spread comparatively slowly from bag to bag, and the H would need to get mixed with the AIR to burn as bags were breached… But for the ‘rocket fuel’, good probability that most if not all passengers and crew could have walked away from wreckage.
AStarofDestiny over 12 years ago
I now have the urge to crank up some Led Zeppelin….
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 12 years ago
“It’s the BLIMP! It’s the BLIMP!”