Chuck Bryant

Yeah.

But it flies.

Right.

And then rigid is the last one.

There's like a skeleton-like frame, usually of a really light but strong material, maybe aluminum.

You sent a YouTube of colorized photos of the Hindenburg, the interior in particular, and they said that its skeleton was made of duralumin.

Have you ever heard of that before?

Yeah, I don't know what that is either.

But if it's not exactly what it sounds like, then somebody messed up naming it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So the outer skin, the envelope, was not what the gas was filled in.

Like it was in these basically bladders inside the envelope, right?

How many were there?

Like 14, I guess, then?

Yeah, it kept the sun off, essentially, so that the sun wouldn't heat the gas inside and so that the UV rays wouldn't break it down into useless, I don't know what you'd break hydrogen down into, I guess ions?

So the other thing about the rigid one, and I had no idea about this either, is that the passengers and crew usually are inside that envelope, inside the blimp.

And if you look at the Hindenburg, there's like a little, you know, what's called the gondola attached to the bottom of it.

And that seems to be, I think, the cockpit where if you were a passenger and you were hanging out in the Hindenburg, you were inside that blimp.