The Truth Behind the Hindenburg Disaster - MythBusters - S04 EP3 - Science Documentary 

i just love the line "We could have burned two Hindenburgs by now. And we are not even a quarter of the way through this" if you take it out of context lol.

27:14 "You make the prettiest noises" 😅

Wild. 36 fatalities and some spectacular newsreel footage basically ended a potentially viable air transport option. Imagine; flying, floating, cruise ships (Ignore the logistics, just imagine them)...

Thanks for letting me watch Mythbusters agian because it's an important part of my childhood, so really thanks

The "blur" and "blur" was potassium permanganate and glycerin

Director: "Jamie, say ok as if you are very excited even if you already know the method" Jamie "Ok :D" 3:24

A very rare moment in MythBusters at 16:37 "We don't just want an explosion"

27:15 "You make the prettiest noises". Oooookay... Weird that on a shot with more than one crocodile, the handler in the red shirt is the creepiest thing on screen.

UNBLUR ALERT: 4:30 the larger blurred bottle is glycerine, the smaller one is potassium permanganate. If these chemicals are mixed, they will self-ignite. (This information is for theoretical consideration only.)

Thermite is used every day on railways and streetcar/light rail systems for welding rail. They use the same mixture of iron oxide and aluminium oxide, but instead of two blurred-out chemicals, they ignite it with a welding torch. :)

What ever happened, it’s insane how fast it burned. It took like 30 seconds to be totally engulfed. How?

27:16 "you make the purtiest noises" Uhhhhh not creepy at all lmfao

I’m disappointed that they didn’t build a full-size Hindenburg.

29:25: The "reptile" that happenstance is an archosaur, seems a little pissed-off by the previous treatment. I believe that they are actually not very stupid, they're just hungry now and then. Besides that: I wonder why they (the humans) believe that an archosaur that has the gap taped shut, would like to have some snack in plastic bags.

YoU MaKe ThE PrEtTiEsT NoIsEs

Re: Tory running in front of the crocodile. Was the insurance company aware of this part of the production?

"Next in Discovery, the world's deadliest piñata" Hahahahahaha

The 3rd blimp is about what would be required for the paint-theory to be true.

The blur can be substituted with a single sparkler btw.

Which edit is this? Kari testing the stockings strength and Adam's disaster narration weren't in the original 42 minute US broadcast. I know Australia and/or the UK got longer versions.

7:13, am I the only one seeing a typo?

Could it be the case that the crocodiles just could not be bothered? they are presumably well fed and do not need to go out of their way to get food.

to be fair, the surface area needed to kick off the full reaction would not have been very large on the full ship, so i can see that the crew did not notice that one minute it took to cook off. the more reaction the more surface area. and the quicker it goes.

saw a video recently abut what actually did happen or how it started ... and yes it was a rip that was leaking hydrogen and a spark from surface charge on the outside cover as it flapped inside and passed close enough to the interior frame to allow a spark to jump and then it was unstoppable and yes it was the rope that was soaked enough to be the ground conductor for the spark gap generator the video abut the landing rope that grounded the ship was on a channel like veritasium or smarter everyday ... it along with this video would be the perfect back to back watch

A more interesting experiment would be to test what caused the ignition. In the original footage too many frames are missing...

we gonna talk about the editing mistake at 7:06? They've got the label under the footage of the burn swapped so it looks like the cotton burned faster

10:19 Sounds like my first 3 dates!

Or maybe it already burned a little before, and the acceleration (hard burning etc) was -1min.

According to wiki it is No. in series #70, No. in season #1, "Hindenberg Mystery" overall No. #83 1st episode of season 4, not 3rd.

pretty sure wild ones would be a different story. crocodiles and alligators can run like 30km. only reason it would chase you is to kill you since your in it's territory cause it doesn't want you there

I wish they had tested a cloth blimp with hydrogen. That would have truly shown how much the hydrogen alone contributed.

Why oh why do they light the fire on TOP of the squares and on TOP of the blimps? Heat goes up, does NOTHING, basically. This is so weird, do these Mythbusters WANT to bust this myth? It looks like they do, not really setting fire to this thing, finding the worst way to set it on fire. Well, thanks a lot.

How long hydrogen stay inside after skin burn open? They feeded it from bottle.

Very little damage was done by the hydrogen itself, since it immediately disapered upwards. This is well known from free balloons as well, I knew a fellow balloon pilot that hit a power line with his hydrogen balloon. He was fine, but claimed that was what caused his baldness… I did fly a small advertising blimp many years ago and there was no end of Hindenburg jokes, scares and other things sent to us…. It was then believed that the brunt of damage was from burning kerosene falling down to the ground from engines/fuel systems. Experiments seemed to discount the thermite. As an engineer I have worked with various thermites, they are rather hard to ignite but very energetic once ignited. Copper oxide termites may even go bang. The Al iron stuff as for welding usually will not burn in thin layers, it depends a lot on particle size etc. The mixture with various grades of nitrocellulose is however a different animal, the crackle in modern fireworks is very similar. At first it seemed that the experiment was a failure, then suddenly when flames are intense enough the thermite reaction kicks in. The fire just had to get large enough for the thermal feedback to work. This was the sudden onset without any flammable gas. In my mind the hydrogen somehow ignited and helped the fire quickly getting hot enough to ignite the fabric. That probably explains the extremely quick destruction of the envelope. The films from the experiment and reality have some eerie resemblance. I think that due to scale factor and the creation of hot spots, the thermite at full scale is a stronger contribution than the conclusions in the clip gives it credit for. But as said, most people survived, perhaps a better outcome than if a modern airliner burns on the ground…But that horror movie and politics ended the era.

The cause of the Hindenburg-disaster was that it was built to fly with helium, but US didn‘t deliver it. Thus it had to fly with hydrogen what it never was planned nor designed for…they should have tested whether with helium there would have been any burn…

just thought of sumting , maibe the hindenburg had parts made from magnesium in the frame

Really could have done with a 4th blimp - what if we had a blimp treated with a less reactive dope but still with hydrogen? The answer seems obvious, but it seems important to the comparison

No irony was involved in this experiment, just coincidence.

Blur is potassium permanganate. Blur is glycerin.

35:48 Crocs (V shaped head) are evil MFs. Gators (U shaped head) are cool.

What is a fact is that a tiny Hydrogen tank in a car, if it leaks or even fully cracks, would lose it's hydrogen, and it would spread so quickly so far, that it would not explode or even burn. It's very hard to keep Hydogen IN something. So using the Hindenburg as an arguemnt against that is kinda silly. It's not more dangerous that petrol. Now liquid Hydrogen in rockets is a different topic. But also because it leaks out of everything, it's never used for long term storage or long space missions. Also crocodiles are lazy bastards.

For those wondering, the blur and blur are glycerin and potassium permanganate. but you can also ignite thermite with a magnesium strip. Don't come crying to me when you burn your house down, ok?

27:17 yet another geek gets a crush on Kari. Yes…. I also had a crush on her.

480p 👍

How did they find in insurance company that said yes to that crocodile thing?

Man, who would've known Crowley worked as an alligator wrangler before becoming a crossroads demon and King of Hell.

I wish the third one was filled with helium to compare how much worse hydrogen made things

43:53 the Hindenburg 3 has an unlimited source of hydrogen that the original Hindenburg did not have.

27:14 Hes damn right 🤣

Jesse. im made of helium jesse im bouta slpode like a mofo in two thousand and late

What I want to see is where and when American decided aluminium must be butchered to aloomunum

I am the first one to comment here😎

Aluminium ffs also "i see dead people"

Blur one is potassium permanganate, blur two is glycerin/glycerol.

My dumbass thought it was a breaking bad episode.