The Hindenburg disaster, in which a massive German airship caught fire while landing in the US, resulting in the deaths of 36 people, occurred in 1937, but even today it’s remembered and thought of as the reason why airships never took to the skies in large numbers.
The powerful images of the accident left many who viewed them with the impression that airships were dangerous, partly because they were filled with gas lighter than air.
But whereas the Hindenburg was filled with a flammable gas, modern airships are not – they haven’t been for many decades. [Read more…] about Airships: Ready to fly high again after a century of suspicion
