[geeks] Re: the Hindenburg disaster....

[Geoff Reed]

I saw it, that's why I mentioned the powdered aluminum.....  looking at the 
footage, in slomo, it was a lightning strike that hit it, igniting the 
skin...... and since powdered aluminum burns.... (that's why some rocket 
motors use it as a fuel)... Pouf.

At 12:06 AM 6/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
>[ On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 14:05:59 (-0700), Geoff Reed wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: OT: Idiot Accountants (was re: [geeks] combatting smokers)
> >
> >   Actually it was the powdered aluminum? or was it zinc, i forget that was
> > mixed in with the doping agent for the skin of the Hindenburg that caused
> > it to burn.
>
>Didn't y'all see the recent documentary?  It may have been a combination
>of a fuel leak, overheated engines, and structural failure, with the
>hydrogen explosion only a secondary (but spectacular) effect.
>
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