The Hindenburg zeppelin was filled with what highly flammable gas?
Zeppelin "Hindenburg" (named after former President of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg) made its first flight. The "Hindenburg" was the largest airship ever built. It had been designed to use non-flammable helium, but the only supplies of the gas were controlled by the United States, who refused to allow its export. So, in what proved to be a fatal decision, the "Hindenburg" was filled with flammable hydrogen. Apart from the propaganda missions, "LZ 129" was used on the transatlantic service alongside "Graf Zeppelin". On 6 May 1937, while landing in Lakehurst after a transatlantic flight, the tail of the ship caught fire,
Hindenburg disaster skin, while certainly flammable, were not enough on their own to destroy the zeppelin. Had the skin contained enough metal to produce pure thermite, the "Hindenburg" would have been too heavy to fly. The MythBusters team also discovered that the "Hindenburg"'s coated skin had a higher ignition temperature than that of untreated material, and that it would initially burn slowly, but that after some time the fire would begin to accelerate considerably with some indication of a thermite reaction. From this, they concluded that those arguing against the incendiary paint theory may have been wrong about the airship's skin not