From: Patrick Salsbury (salsbury_at_sculptors.com)
Date: 05/12/98
Message-ID: <3558A660.3BA755D@sculptors.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 12:43:29 -0700 From: Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_sculptors.com> Subject: Hindenburg disaster remembered
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to redistribute. I'll include text as well as the HTML attachment, in
case folks want to follow the links. It will be online for a few more
days at:
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> Wed, 6 May 1998 Copyright 1998 by United Press
> 12:54:06 PDT International (via ClariNet)
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> LAKEHURST, N.J., May 6 (UPI) -- On a field in
> central New Jersey speeches are being made and
> prayers said at the site and at the moment where 61
> years ago the German airship Hindenburg exploded,
> crashing into flames, killing 13 passengers, 22
> dirigible crew and Allen Hagerman, a member of the
> landing crew at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
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> Henry Applegate, a founding member of the Lakehurst
> Navy Historical Society, says the service today is
> not only to mark the Hindenburg disaster, but the
> deaths of anyone involved in lighter-than-air
> craft.
>
> Applegate said the group has held services for the
> past 14 years, starting at 7:25 p.m., the moment
> when the Hindenburg's control car, with 97 people
> aboard, crumbled onto the field.
>
> Last year services for the 60th anniversary drew
> 500 to the Navy's technical center, where current
> activity is to develop a virtual reality approach
> and landing systems for carrier based aircraft.
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> For years the standard theory for the cause of the
> disaster was that static electricity ignited the
> hydrogen that was being vented for landing.
>
> But recently, Addison Bain, who worked as a
> hydrogen specialist with NASA, researched the crash
> and theorized that static electricity ignited the
> linen shell of the ship, because it was coated with
> o Excite a nitrate-based paint, which like old nitrate movie
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> Applegate said: ``There are so many theories --
> sabotage, an incendiary bullet. This is the most
> scientific research that has been completed to
> date. He (Bain) used an actual sample of the outer
> cover that survived the fire. I'm satisfied.''
>
> Applegate said lighter-than-air ships are making a
> comeback. The first rigid dirigible to be built
> since Hitler destroyed the Zepplin fleet is being
> completed in Germany at the factory where Count
> Zepplin built his first ship at the beginning of
> the century.
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> Some 40 blimps -- soft sided balloons -- are in
> service around the globe, some doing advertising.
> Applegate says rigid ships can lift greater weights
> and would be useful for hauling large loads to
> remote areas where there are no roads.
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