‘Tis But a Spark: The Annihilation of the Hindenburg On May 6, 1937, the German dirigible LZ 129 Hindenburg crashed to earth in a blazing maelstrom of Titanic-esque drama. Part of a successful family of Zeppelins, the Hindenburg was feigned to be the largest and most reliable of its predecessors. Subsequently, the Hindenburg disaster marked the end of the passenger airship era, and from its ashes rose a phoenix of skepticism and inquiry as to what caused the airship’s demise. Although after many a theory have been postulated, and conspiracies blotted out, the initial cause of the disaster has still remained a mystery; a magic trick of sorts. I believe, however, that the most probable cause of the Hindenburg disaster was simply an electric The approach to discovering the cause of the Hindenburg disaster has been mainly scientific, with numerous theories created, supported, and disputed by science; however, a more logical standpoint questions which theories are actually probable. For instance, would it be proper to believe a theory, for the cause of the Hindenburg disaster, even if the theory may indeed have been proven wrong on multiple occasions? In this case, the reason for believing that the cause of the Hindenburg’s demise was a spark and a helium leak, in conjunction, is not only because it is fairly practical, but considerably credible. Thus I place it in competition with the other contender for a prominent theory: that of former NASA scientist Addison His notorious “incendiary paint theory” (IPT), which was the star of the PBS documentary Secrets of the Dead: What Happened to the Hindenburg?, has a large array of deficiencies. Dr. Alexander J. Dessler of Arizona University wrote an individual 21-page paper, titled The Hindenburg Fire: Fatal Flaws in the Addison Bain Incendiary-Paint Theory, and a collaborative follow-up piece named The Hindenburg Fire: Hydrogen or Incendiary Paint?, addressing the precise dilemmas encountered with Bain’s theory. For example, Bain used the continuous electric current of a Jacob’s Ladder to light a fabric sample of the Hindenburg during his initial experiment –– and thus provided a stimulus not synonymous to the atmospheric conditions during the time of the real incident. Bain’s theory was also bashed on the season-opening 70th episode of the hit television series MythBusters. The details of how the IPT is inaccurate are important, but the more crucial point is that the IPT has been proven faulty. If incendiary paint was officially pegged as the cause of the Hindenburg disaster, then the theory and its appropriate methodology would have to hold despite retesting and duplication of the initial experiment. Yet the IPT has indeed been disproved on multiple occasions since its formulation. So it would be rather erroneous to ever logically accept that the IPT is a
What really happened over the summer in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico? People have debated this topic countless times. Despite all of the deviations of what happened, there is a general timeline. Sometime during the months of June and July 1947, an aircraft landed in Mac Brazel’s ranch; Brazel proceeded to tell Sheriff George Wilcox. He sent a member of the Roswell Army Air Field base to look at the wreckage on Brazel’s ranch. This person took some of the debris back to the base for further inspection. On July 8, 1947, the newspapers published stories about how someone found a flying saucer in New Mexico. However, the government told the newspapers to report that it was merely a weather balloon that had crashed. After that, everybody simply accepted the story and dropped the topic. Throughout that story, many pieces of evidence went untold to the media. There were numerous pictures that went unreleased. Many affidavits went unnoticed and nobody paid attention to inconsistencies in the government’s justifications. Because of explicative photographs, several eyewitness accounts, and contradictory government explanations, there is extensive proof that the government concealed an alien landing in Roswell, New Mexico.
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Any hypothesis, Gould says, begins with the collection of facts. In this early stage of a theory development bad science leads nowhere, since it contains either little or contradicting evidence. On the other hand, Gould suggests, testable proposals are accepted temporarily, furthermore, new collected facts confirm a hypothesis. That is how good science works. It is self-correcting and self-developing with the flow of time: new information improves a good theory and makes it more precise. Finally, good hypotheses create logical relations to other subjects and contribute to their expansion.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the flightcrew to monitor the flight instrument during the final 4 minutes of flight, and to detect an unexpected descent soon enough to prevent impact with the ground. Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew's attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.
The Hindenburg, also known as LZ-129, was one of Nazi Germany's finest airships and was the first airship to provide air service across the Atlantic. In fact, it is the largest and most luxurious zeppelin ever built. It represented the greatness of the Third Reich and its leader, Hitler.
...pposite side of the scale an O-ring at 20 degrees F takes 1.9 seconds to seal. It is this difference in time that most likely caused the explosion of the Challenger.
How many times do you get in your car, thinking it will explode? probably never. The passengers on the Challenger didn't think so either. The Challenger explosion was a disastrous and life changing event in history.
o Byets, Nina. Physicists and the 1945 Decision to Drop the Bomb. 12 March 2005. http://arxiv.org/html/physics/0210058
Some time in July of 1947, a mysterious flying object zigzagged across the skies of New Mexico. Within twenty-four hours the object disappeared from radar just as mysteriously as it had appeared. It was last seen in a small town in the middle of the Arizona desert, it’s name, Roswell.
Albert Einstein’s discoveries and theories have had a positively enormous effect on the world. Some of Einstein’s biggest impacting discoveries and theories are the theories of Special and General relativity, the Theory of Relativity, Brownian motion, the discovery of the photon, and Einstein’s creation of the equation E = MC^2. Perhaps Einstein’s most beneficial discovery is his formulation of E = MC^2 which is crucial for space-flight and can help today’s scientist in gathering knowledge about our universe.
Following World War II and the jet engine technology that emerged largely toward its end, aerospace engineers knew well that the technology had great potential for use in the commercial aviation industry. The Comet was the first aircraft to utilize jet propulsion; however, its designers failed to consider the metallurgy of the aircraft’s materials under flight conditions or the consequences of their atypical window design. The aircraft was designed by Britain’s De Havilland Aircraft Company and entered service in May 1952. After a year of service, however, the design issues mentioned above resulted in the failure of several Comet aircraft. Extensive evaluations revealed that repeated pressurization stress on the aircraft’s main cabin had caused its structure to fail.
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Throughout Albert Einstein’s lifetime he accomplished many amazing things that have an effect on people today. For example, in 1905, “often called as Einstein’s “miracle year”, he published four papers in the Annalen der Physik, each of which would alter the course of modern physics” (Michio,Kaku 13). Throughout Einstein’s four books, he “applied the quantum theory to light in order to explain the photoelectric effect, offered the first experimental proof of the existence of atoms, laid out the mathematical theory of special relativity, and proved the first mechanism to explain the energy source of the Sun and other stars”(13). Throughout 1905-1915 Einstein began to realize that his theory for relativity was flawed, because “it made no mention of gravitation or acceleration” (19). “In November of 1915, Einstein finally completed the general theory of reality” (20); “in 1921 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics” (Belanger, Craig. 1).
Diamond, J. (1987). The worst mistake in the history of the human race. Discover, 8(5), 64-66.
Travelling at a speed twice that of sound might seem to be something futuristic; however, this feat has already been achieved almost 40 years ago by the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft-The Concorde. Concorde brought a revolution in the aviation industry by operating transatlantic flights in less than four hours. The slick and elegant aircraft with one of the most sophisticated engineering was one of the most coveted aircrafts of its time. However, this was all destined to end when Air France Flight 4590 was involved in a tragic disaster just outside the city of Paris on July 25, 2000. The crash killed 113 people, but more disastrous was its impact. The belief and confidence people had with Concorde gradually started to fade, and finally Concorde was grounded after two and a half years of the crash. Official reports state that the main cause of the crash was a piece of metal dropped by a Continental aircraft that flew moments before Concorde, but, over the last decade, the report has met a lot of criticism, and many alternative hypotheses have thus been proposed.