Neuveröffentlichung eines alten Artikels über Hindenburg

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In "Modern Mechanics" erschien kürzlich die Neuveröffentlichung eines zeitgenössischen Artikels über das Hindenburg-Unglück:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/ ... -are-safe/

36 Killed on the “Hindenburg” But Records Prove That Zeppelins Are Safe

by Bob Gordon

TO MOST of us Earth-bound mortals, there is something singularly terrifying about death from the sky. The only terror equal to it is death from fire. When the two horrors are combined in one spectacular disaster such as overtook the airship Hindenburg, we of panicky imaginations are prone to ignore facts, prone to throw up our hands and cry, “That is enough!”

Yet the men who must face this fate again if airship progress is to continue are far from ready to cry enough. Every uninjured survivor of the Hindenburg crew hurried back to Germany, that he might get a berth in the next great Zeppelin, the LZ-130, rapidly nearing completion.

And this attitude is not mere heroics. Airship men really believe that the rigid dirigible is a reliable means of transportation. Disasters? Of course they encounter disasters. “What mode of transportation does not?” is their argument. And they make a pretty good case for the airship, too.

They will tell you, for instance, that dirigibles have carried more than 250,000 paying passengers, yet up until the time 12 of the 36 passengers on the Hindenburg’s last trip were killed at Lakehurst, not a single passenger of any airship had ever lost his life....

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