Chuck Bryant

And it had six more successful flights in 1937 when it started.

I say we take a break and come back again and things just start to go poorly for the Hindenburg.

How about that?

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Yeah, which is kind of shocking.

They were letting the Nazis land blimps at a naval air base in New Jersey.

Yeah.

But the ropes, bear this in mind, the ropes had been dropped and touching the ground for at least four minutes by this time, right?

Yeah.

So, yes, it took, I think I saw 34 seconds from the time when the flames erupted to the time when the entire thing was destroyed and crashed on the ground.

It went that fast.

Um, like I said, the stern, the tail of it caught fire first and it, the flames just kind of blew through the envelope and came out the nose.

And what's just mind boggling is that as it landed on the ground, because it was a light skeleton, but not something you would want to land on you.

And in fact, one of the ground crew died from the skeleton landing on him.

Um, people, once it hit the ground, people were running out of the flames.