Recreating the Infamous Hindenburg Disaster

In July 1937, the world watched in horror as the hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed to the ground in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster claimed the lives of 36 people and marked the end of the era of commercial passenger airships. In recent years, there have been several attempts to recreate the Hindenburg disaster, both in film and in real life. In 2017, a team of engineers and historians built a full-scale replica of the Hindenburg and set it on fire in a controlled environment. The experiment was designed to learn more about the causes of the original disaster and to develop new safety measures for future airship designs.