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Post by toshtego on Nov 21, 2019 16:19:30 GMT -5
The last survivor of the Hindenburg crash has passed on.
Yes, Werner G. Doehner, who was a boy of eight years when the 800 foot long Hindenburg Zeppelin exploded and crashed in Lakehurst New Jersey on May 6, 1937, has died. As a boy, traveling with his parents from Germany and on to Mexico, lost his father and siblings in the worst Zeppelin disaster to ever hit New Jersey. He went on to a career in electrical engineering before retiring to the aptly named, but too late to use, town of Parachute, Colorado.
Mr. Doehner was 90 years old. Not certain if he smoked a pipe or not.
Thought you would want to know.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Nov 21, 2019 16:42:06 GMT -5
A man of the moment...a tragic accident that took so many lives. RIP, Mr. Doehner
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 19:09:35 GMT -5
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Post by toshtego on Nov 21, 2019 20:18:13 GMT -5
Thank you for posting that. Oh, the humanity! |
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Post by sperrytops on Nov 21, 2019 20:33:51 GMT -5
Fascinating bit of history
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2019 20:41:03 GMT -5
They did allow smoking on the blimps they had electric lighters. I read that someplace.
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Post by sperrytops on Nov 22, 2019 13:09:02 GMT -5
They did allow smoking on the blimps they had electric lighters. I read that someplace. Now that's crazy. Light em if you got em! |
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Post by toshtego on Nov 22, 2019 13:14:14 GMT -5
They did allow smoking on the blimps they had electric lighters. I read that someplace. I believe it was in a room reserved for that purpose. Yes on the electric lighters. Years ago, I had opportunity to visit the zeppelin works in Friedrichshafen. A modern version, much smaller and filled with helium, was in assembly. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 23, 2019 8:07:50 GMT -5
That's a really good link. Quite disturbing too though. |
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Post by taharris on Nov 29, 2019 17:44:04 GMT -5
A giant balloon filled with Hydrogen is just a bad idea.
What were they thinking?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 17:49:33 GMT -5
A giant balloon filled with Hydrogen is just a bad idea. What were they thinking? Hubris and overbearing Ego come to mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 19:42:29 GMT -5
Natural helium is pretty rare and the Germans were pretty good at chemistry and playing with water. Like heavy water and other experiments like biomass fuels, hydrogen would have been a by product. The German people are held in disdain because of what happened in WWII but all that aside the they were the best scientists of that era. Without the Germans we would have not made it to the moon or created the atomic bomb.
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