http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA/greatzeps/german/Hindenburg.html

Lotsa good info (but not overwhelming amount) at this site.  Four 1200 HP M-
B engines.  That would move a Westy along!

The passengers actually rode around inside the bag and get this -- it had a
smoking room!

Mark
87 Wolfsburg Weekender "Graf Monty" (nom du jour)

On Tue, 8 May 2007 15:25:16 -0700, Aristotle Sagan
<killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Impossible to get in 1937. Helium was considered a war resource and Germany
>wasn't allowed to buy any, and didn't have the technology to isolate it by
>itself.
>
>tim in san jose
>
>
>On 5/8/07, Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>> >Either way, floating around under a big bag full of hydrogen sounds like
>> a
>> >bad idea. ;>)
>> >
>> >Mark
>> >87 Wolfsburg Weekender "Monty"
>> >
>> >On Mon, 7 May 2007 22:42:04 -0700, Aristotle Sagan
>> ><killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> >>John...
>> >>We are talking 1937 here. Airline safety was no where near the 9sigma
it
>> >>flys under today.
>> >>
>> >>A lot of people died to get those numbers up.
>> >>
>> >>tim in san jose
>> >>
>> >>On 5/7/07, John Reddick <SVYOLO@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>  1,000,000 miles before an accident is nothing to brag about. Neither
>> is 1
>> >>>  crash out of 650 flights.  Any commercial aircraft would be
>> permanently
>> >  >> grounded if it reached 1/10,000 of either mishap rate.
>>
>>
>> Helium all the way, man. Of course a zeppelin would need more
>> gas-volume, as helium is less buoyant than hydrogen. Harder to get &
>> more expensive too.
>> --
>> Andrew Grebneff
>> Dunedin
>> New Zealand
>> Fossil preparator
>> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
>> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
>>
>
>
>
>--
>Where ever you are, there you be. Unless you're driving my van, in which
>case, you ain't got there yet.