Chuck Bryant

That what really ignited first and then eventually ignited the hydrogen was this coating on the outer shell of the envelope, which we talked about that kept the sun's rays off.

And that that ignited.

And he really went to town on this.

Apparently he had a television special and had to really work at getting an actual piece of salvaged envelope from the Hindenburg.

He burned it on TV, but he really had to bend over backwards to get this thing to light.

So essentially his own demonstration proved to critics like that theory doesn't hold hydrogen.

Thanks.

I appreciate you noticing.

Yeah, so that's what we were saying, that the ignition point, the spark, and the hydrogen leak being at the same spot was very unlikely.

And what Giapas basically said was like, no, all those spacers became capacitors themselves.

Right.

And they were all storing all this energy, negative on the frame, positive on the skin.

And all it took was one spark for all of them to start sparking.

And if you have hundreds or, like you said, thousands of little capacitors sparking at once, it's going to blow up a hydrogen dirigible.

And it's going to do it pretty fast.

And I said that there was four minutes in between the time when they dropped the mooring cables to the ground and the time the Hindenburg blew up.

And in one of the tests that Geopis ran for NOVA for this program, he basically ran essentially the same situation that the Hindenburg would have gone through under his theory.

And it took four minutes for it to build up enough of a charge for the capacitor to spark.

Yeah, I like this one a lot, too.

So one of the things that a lot of people aren't aware of is that the Hindenburg, when it went up, not only did it immediately put an end to the idea of transatlantic airship flights or airships in general, aside from Goodyear, who braved on.