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Did the Hindenburg disaster end airships or was it coincidental timing?
Pop history says that airships were the future until May 6, 1937. Until people saw the horrific newsreel images of the Hindenburg falling out of the sky afire with 36 people left dead afterwards.
But that seems a little too simple. Industries don't usually just collapse overnight like that. Was the Hindenburg Disaster really the reason airships died off or was it just a tipping point for an industry at the cleavage between success and failure?
u/DuvalHeart — 3 days ago