THREAD

People want me to write threads, so here's one about something I know for a fact.

To KNOW this, you have to be INFORMED, which I am.

Second tweet:

Passenger list.

This is the first time I've read ANYWHERE that the Rothschilds caused the Hindenburg crash, but the way conspiracy theorists work is they try to DISTRACT you.

The passenger list doesn't matter.

The Hindenburg was going to crash no matter what, due to human error, nature, and the design flaws of ALL RIGID AIRSHIPS.

The Germans used dirigibles as strategic bombers in World War I.

They used hydrogen as a lifting gas and were covered with dope, as were all World War One aircraft.

Dopes containing nitrocellulose were insanely flammable.

The German zeppelins used gasbags made of the intestines of oxen.

It's called "goldbeater's skin."

No matter how careful you are in gluing the pieces together and sealing it, the bags ripple in flight.

They can rub against the internal metal framework and spring leaks.

Zeppelins could blow up if the crew generated static electricity.

They wore felt boots.

The Germans tried to make these flying crematoria safer by making them fly high above the range of British interceptors.

But the British created the "Comic" class of night interceptors.

My favorite is the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter Comic.

Believe in or not THAT COLOR makes it invisible at night.

It's called "NIVO."

Night Invisible Varnish Orfordness.

It blended perfectly with the sky and the ground.

These things ended the zeppelin threat. Note the guns fixed to fire upward.

A lightened airframe, a powerful engine, invisibility, and upward-firing guns loaded with incendiary ammunition.

Versus a flying crematorium.

On to the Hindenburg.

Why did it crash?

The Germans replaced the goldbeater's skin for the gasbags with three layers of cotton, the center layer saturated with gelatine.

The skin was cotton covered with cellulose acetate butyrate and aluminum powder, which was not any more flammable than your jeans.

They WANTED to use helium, but we embargoed it, so they were forced to use hydrogen.

This is the first thing that doomed the Hindenburg.

SEE, THE GASBAGS STILL RIPPLED IN FLIGHT.

They were already leaking before the airship landed at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

The leak was in the top of the rearmost gasbag, right in front of the vertical rudder.

Technically they're known as "gas cells."

See how soft and floppy it is?

See how it touches the steel interior framework?

The Hindenburg tried to land at Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, but the plan was to use the American technique of a "flying moor," which the Germans had tried only a couple of times.

An airship had to be attached to the mooring mast in order to complete the landing.

The Germans were used to coming in at the level of the mooring mast.

The airship would drop ropes for the ground crew to grab, and then it would drop a steel mooring cable that the ground crew would attach to the mast.

As the ground crew held the ropes to prevent the airship from getting out of control, a winch slowly pulled the airship toward the mast by the steel cable.

Then the airship would be locked to the mast by the nose.

Under the American system, the airship came in high and dropped the ropes and cable.

This require far fewer ground crewmen. Remember, in 1937 we had a very low number of service members.

So the inexperienced Germans and the impatient Americans botched the first attempt.

A storm was brewing.

The Germans came around fast, turning twice at high speed.

The ship was WAY out of trim, with the stern sagging.

Captain Pruss--Hindenburg's skipper--ordered water ballast dropped, and the crewman ran to the nose to raise the stern.

The water ballast soaked the ground and the ropes.

It started to rain.

One soaked rope was attached to the steel mooring mast.

Witnesses said the skin in front of the tail began to flutter, indicating a major gas leak.

Since the air was highly electrified due to the imminent storm, and since the wet ropes grounded the Hindenburg, static electricity ran from the steel mooring mast, through the conductive ropes, and into the Hindenburg, causing the hydrogen leak to explode.

This is what American and German investigators concluded AT THE TIME.

All the folderol ever since is simply people trying to make money or seems smarter than the rest of us.

Or blame the Rothschilds, which is a new one to me.

But AS ALWAYS, there's no mystery here.

Human error, nature, and design flaws.

Not even the Rothschilds could have engineered THIS disaster.

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