It was nitrocellulose dope. Same thing used to cover rag wing airplanes. Burns
like crazy. And the other problem: cows love to eat it. Never land in a cow
field and leave the plane.
Geoff Branch
'74 Meejit "Yellow Peril"
'72 Innocenti 1300 Mini
----- Original Message -----
From "esheffield" <esheffield at i-plus.net>
To: "Nory" <nory@buffnet.net>
Cc: "Spridgets" <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Saudi oil
> True enough. But I watched a documentary on the Hindenburg a while back and at
least some of the latest research places the blame for starting the fire on the
paint. I can't remember what exactly was in it, but they said it was like
painting it with TNT. They tested a piece of similar fabric with the same paint
on it and POOF! There were several other factors they considered from the film
footage that seems to indicate that the hydrogen didn't go up first - the
visible flames from the very beginning (hydrogen burns clear) and the way it
kind of settled to the ground rather than BAM! THUD!
>
> And having singed all the hair off one arm at one time due to some
carelessness with gasoline fumes and my sister in law barely escaping major
damage to herself and her house in a similar but separate incident, I don't know
that hydrogen would be much worse! ;-)
>
> Eddie
> 1971 Midget "Bebop"
>
> >Isn't hydrogen highly flammable? Wasn't that what filled the Hindenburg?
> >
> >-Nory
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