http://www.airships.net/blog/may-6-1937-hindenburg-disaster The Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg, U.S. Navy Airships, and other Dirigibles Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.airships.net/blog/may-6-1937-hindenburg-disaster#comment-4931 Neil Hemstad Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:16:22 +0000 http://www.airships.net/?p=7264#comment-4931 I have a few thoughts on what happened to the Hindenburg. The sad part of it was that but for one thing going wrong at the wrong time the whole adventure went to ashes. The sinking of the Titanic did not spell the end of the ocean liner in 1912. If the germans did have their own helium supplies then the next Zeppelin the LZ 130 would have taken her place in passenger service. It just seems to me that Goering and Hitler just did not want to risk another crash using a hydrogen filled airship to give germany a bad image. Just think the R101 was an incompetently built airship that to nobody's surprise crashed and burned on her first trip to a place she could not have even returned from if she had arrived! The British just gave up on airships instead of fixing what went wrong. The Americans as well with the Akron and Macon. If the fin on the Macon had been fixed then it might have proven the worth of the scouting airship the the US Navy. The Airship always seemed to have the wrong people in the right places to give it the chance that it needed to suceed. The Hindenburg's success in 1936 should have proven the transatlantic airship had a future but it was not to be. I have a few thoughts on what happened to the Hindenburg. The sad part of it was that but for one thing going wrong at the wrong time the whole adventure went to ashes. The sinking of the Titanic did not spell the end of the ocean liner in 1912. If the germans did have their own helium supplies then the next Zeppelin the LZ 130 would have taken her place in passenger service. It just seems to me that Goering and Hitler just did not want to risk another crash using a hydrogen filled airship to give germany a bad image. Just think the R101 was an incompetently built airship that to nobody’s surprise crashed and burned on her first trip to a place she could not have even returned from if she had arrived! The British just gave up on airships instead of fixing what went wrong. The Americans as well with the Akron and Macon. If the fin on the Macon had been fixed then it might have proven the worth of the scouting airship the the US Navy. The Airship always seemed to have the wrong people in the right places to give it the chance that it needed to suceed. The Hindenburg’s success in 1936 should have proven the transatlantic airship had a future but it was not to be.

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