Subjects:
A. attention getter and relate it to Hindenburg
A. Count von Zeppelin’s first rigid airships
III. Paul von Hindenburg: The man that the famous airship was named after.
A. Hindenburg, king of rigid airships and the last of them.
B. aircraft has changed because of it
C. investigations have changed because of it.
the hindenburg’s history and investigation
A 747, O.J. Simpson, the Goodyear blimp and the shooting at Columbine
High School all have one thing in common. The Hindenburg has contributed to
these things in one way or another. The 747 is a modern aircraft that is very
popular in commercial airlines. O.J. Simpson is a man that was charged with the
. . .
Former NASA Researcher Find. ” UCLA NEWS (1998)
(http://engineer. “After a long investigation and many mysterious allegations, it was
finally determined that the Hindenburg exploded and crashed due to the
combustion of the hydrogen when it touched the mooring tower and a spark
jumped catching the skin on fire. It started in America and it’s first
stop was 7,000 miles later in Tokyo, Japan (video 1). Also the way the skin was attached to the
frame allowed a large electrostatic charge to build up (3).
All airships today are non-rigid types, popularly know as blimps. ” (Williams 16) Many people had no faith in hydrogen being safe
after the incident. Hindenburg was a fearless leader worthy of
airship title.
By 1914, the Zeppelins had carried over 10,000 people over 100,000 miles (video
1). He
built the LZ1 and flew it, July 2, 1900, two years before the Wright Brothers’ first
flight (video 1). In addition, hydrogen
burns in a colorless flame; and the footage shows a very large , visible, bright
flame (3). It is no more
hazardous than gasoline, safer than propane, and is on the same level as natural
gas in many ways (3).
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