Hindenburg disaster

T he Hindenburg Disaster occurred 79 years ago today. On May 6,1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey the world’s largest aircraft ever built caught fire and burned to the ground in seconds. The Hindenburg was a zeppelin aircraft. Zeppelins were made of helium but for some odd reason the Hindenburg was made of hydrogen, a very flammable gas. The Hindenburg was over eight-hundred feet long and carried over 2656 people across the Atlantic between Germany and New York and Rio de Janerio before the…

aren't as safe as airplanes. Nobody trusts the Zeppelins anymore because of the Hindenburg crash and it was very scary. According to the article The Flaming Sky, “After the Hindenburg disaster, people no longer trusted the safety of Zeppelins.” Zeppelins are very dangerous vehicles. They are not to be trusted anymore after of the biggest disaster in 1937. As stated in Where Were You on May 6, 1937, “The Hindenburg crashed like a huge balloon on fire.” They can crash when you aren't even ready…

to be the farthest anything this big would fly The Hindenburg was to fly across the Atlantic ocean. The Hindenburg was going to make a huge difference It had been made in Germany and after 30 years of travel on commercial zeppelins Germany had decided to make a leap in air travel. The huge travel in flight was a huge deal that everyone wanted to see. This made Germany an amazing place that was about to lead the Way in air travel. The Hindenburg was a lot bigger Than any other zeppelin it was the…

First, will look at the sinking of the Titanic of 1912 and well this is not the first ever engineering disaster it is normally where most people start. “RMS Titanic was a British passenger ship that sank after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton (United Kingdom) to New York City, in April 1912. Titanic was at the time the largest ship ever built and was considered to be unsinkable. The tragedy claimed the lives of over 1,500 people. Many factors contributed to the…

6th, we remember the devastating tragedy from over half a century ago. It has been almost 80 years since the Nazi propaganda aircraft, the Hindenburg Zeppelin, burned and crashed taking several lives on its way down. This day, every year we remember the lives lost and the death of the largest and most magnificent aircraft ever constructed. The Hindenburg, a Nazi propaganda mission, was constructed from 1931-1936 in Germany. It completed hundreds of successful missions without failure. The…

It was characterized by a length of about 245m, an envelope volume of 200 000m3 and a maximum speed of 140km/h. The Hindenburg disaster took place in 1937 and was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage and photographs, destroying the idea of airship safety. This event represented the end of the huge rigid airship time. However during and after the second world war the…

great activities, lessons, materials, and books they have to offer. As a kid, I have always had a love for studying about natural disasters. So, it was a no brainer when I saw the selection that I needed to select that. The BP Oil Spill, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, The Hindenburg Disaster, Nuclear Meltdowns, Pandemics, September 11th, Then and Now, and The Titanic Disaster were my books to choose from. A geographically informed person must understand that physical systems create, maintain,…

The cause of the Second World War has been debated since the war ended. In my history class we were talking about the World Wars and I began to wonder what caused them. The Great War was inevitable and ended with the Allies winning and them issuing the Treaty of Versailles. Because this treaty caused much discontentment amongst the Germans, many come to the conclusion that the Treaty of Versailles was to blame for the Second World War, however the treaty was only the immediate cause and there…

Kenneth Foote’s Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy examines monuments and memorials that deal with a variety of events in American History. He uses a variety of types of monuments dedicated to natural disasters, mass murders, assassinations, freak accidents and other varieties. Such monuments and memorials deal with what Foote believes is a “sense of place.” In doing so, Foote articulates the various meanings of the memories attached to sites of memorial and…

Adolf Hitler AKA Trump Hitler is described as an idealist, Dictative, Radical, and persuasive person. Hitler was a very hopeful leader at the time. He was a great orator, but his ideals of what was right and what he thought was Germany's destiny were obviously misconstrued. He was very vengeful at the Jews (mother's death), and he was very Idealistic in the fact that he wanted to create a "Pure" Race, a "breed" of man that would be the ultimate in everything, he definitely brought Germany up…