Chapter 1: What led to the Hindenburg's infamous crash?
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Chapter 2: How did the Hindenburg compare to other airships of its time?
This is off the dome, but somebody said something about them going over. They would go over like a Led Zeppelin. Yeah. Obviously, that's a two contradictory terms. Sure. And that's what they meant. They're being sort of cheeky. And of course, you know, it was the Hindenburg was on the cover of their first record of their debut album.
One other thing I looked up, the LZ in any of the Zeppelins, so like the first rigid airship was called LZ-1.
Not for lead.
No, I thought probably it was. Yeah. But it's Luftschiff or airship in German. So Airship Zeppelin 1 was the first rigid airship. The sister ship of the Hindenburg was LZ-130. That's right.
So, yes, I think as a rule of thumb, anytime you're taking advantage of a new technology that carries you away from Earth or carries you along Earth at really fast speeds, do not go in any models that are still in the single digits. That's just a good rule of thumb, I think.
All right. So if the new plane comes out and it's the, oh, I don't know, Air Max 7?
Just wait until they get to 10. They're going to get there fast because those next three are not going to stay around very long.
You're right. That's good advice. So 1910 was the first commercial passenger flight. This baby went, I think it carried 23 people plus nine crew on a sightseeing loop. Yep. But it crashed. No casualties.
No, get this. So this was LZ-7, still single digits.
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Chapter 3: What were the design features of the Hindenburg?
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Okay, Chuck, so like you were saying before the break, the Zeppelin development had gotten to the point where it's like we can get across the Atlantic. We can get down to South America anytime we want. Like, no problem. We've reached that point. Let's just start creating dirigibles that are meant for transatlantic travel. Like, let's really put a dent in the ocean liner industry.
We're just going to create a new travel industry. And that's what they set about doing. So the Hindenburg LZ-129 was the part of this larger planned fleet of specifically transatlantic luxury Zeppelins that were going to essentially change the world and make it much smaller.
Yeah, for sure. It was, you know, it was luxury in the sense that it was an airship that catered to rich people. If you look at the pictures, it looks nice, but it's still not like anything you would get on board, like the Titanic or anything like that, just because it was an airship. So they couldn't, you know, there are obvious weight limitations and size limitations.
Like the cabins were really, really small, but they, you know, they were good quality. not good-looking enough for the crowd that they were catering to, which is really rich people, because I think it costs like, in today dollars, like $10,000 compared to about half that for a transatlantic ocean liner voyage.
Yeah, and those are one way, too. Not like our voyage in October, which is round-trip.
That's right. They're bringing us back, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
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