The Hindenburg should have used helium gas instead of hydrogen gas. Helium is non-flammable, unlike hydrogen, which was a major factor contributing to the Hindenburg disaster.
The HIndenberg was filled with highly flamable Hydrogen.Hydrogen is lighter than air so it rises.
It was hydrogen. That's why it caught fire. Modern airships use helium.
Addison Bain conducted experiments to determine the cause of the Hindenburg airship disaster in 1937. He concluded that a spark likely ignited leaking hydrogen gas, causing the fire that led to the airship's destruction. His findings helped improve safety protocols for future airship travel.
Hydrogen gas is only 7% as dense as atmospheric air, and is as half as dense as helium gas. As a result, a suitable container, such as a balloon, has a significant boyancy force in air when filled with hydrogen. The Hindenburg, and other airships of its time, had large bladders lashed to the airship's structure. When filled filled with hydrogen, the boyancy of these bladders was such that they could lift not only their own weight, but also the weight of the entire ship, crew, passengers, and cargo. . Back in the middle 1930s, if you were wealthy enough to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, there were two choices - noisy, small and cramped aeroplanes, or quiet and spacious airships that got their lift from huge bladders filled with hydrogen gas. Back then, it was still an even bet as to which technology would win in the long run - the faster and noisy aeroplanes, or the slower and more relaxed Lighter-Than-Air airships. . The answer was settled in favour of the aeroplanes in 1937, when the enormous Nazi hydrogen-filled airship, the Hindenburg, slowly maneuvered in to dock at a 50-metre high mast at the Lakehurst Air Base, in New Jersey. This was its 21st crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly, there was a spark on the Hindenberg, and then flames. Newsreel film crews captured the sudden disaster as the Hindenburg burst into enormous plumes of red-yellow flames, and collapsed to the ground. Over thirty of the 97 people on board died. The disaster was blamed on the extreme flammability of the hydrogen lifting gas that filled most of the airship.
If they could have gotten any, they would have put helium in the Hindenburg.
The Hindenburg should have used helium gas instead of hydrogen gas. Helium is non-flammable, unlike hydrogen, which was a major factor contributing to the Hindenburg disaster.
"This gas" is hydrogen, correct? The property that contributed to the Hindenburg Disaster is flammability.
Hydrogen.
Hydrogen gas was used to inflate the Hindenburg.
No, the Hindenburg airship was filled with hydrogen gas, not helium. The use of hydrogen was a factor in the Hindenburg disaster, as the highly flammable gas led to the airship catching fire and crashing in 1937.
Gas capacity: 7,062,000 cubic feet
Hydrogen.
Because it is incredibly flammable. Look up "Hindenburg".
It didnt. Liquid Oxygen is what rockets use for fuel however the Hindenburg was filled with ahighly reactive gas called hydrogen which ignited shortly after the Hindenburg crashed.
The Hindenburg disaster
The Hindenburg was a giant balloon airship filled with hydrogen gas for buoyancy.Hydrogen is the lightest of all gasses and has a mass of only half the mass of helium gas, so it worked well to lift the mass of the airship. The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, and part of the disaster was due to the hydrogen gas catching fire. Helium would not catch fire since it is an inert gas.