https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/american-hindenberg-zeppel...
No idea what funds this - looks like they were bought by Automattic? But glad it exists. If they were on substack or patreon I would pay.
Blogspam. This submission should definitely be changed to that URL.
- Hindenburg
- Pan Am 103
- Tenerife
- TWA 800
- JAL 123
- Korean 007
- Iran Air shootdown
- MH 17
- MH 370
- The DC-10 cargo door (Turkish airlines)
- The DC-10 fan disk (United airlines)
- The Hawaiian Airlines 737 fatigue decompression
- Gimli glider
- Miracle on the Hudson
- September 11
Pilots hate this one simple trick!
So they had egos as big as the oversized airship they built. What a tragedy and waste of human life, I hate it.
I wonder why they didn’t just build smaller airships, why risk an unproven type of craft with some megalomaniacal project?
> That attitude also gave us the Titanic and Hindenburg.
You are 100% correct about the Hindenburg, I believe less so about the Titanic.That said, that attitude also brought us a dozen humans walking on another world.
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