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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 16 12:58 pm
by Pete
Looks like the flying Bum has crash landed on its 2nd test flight.

I imagine it will be a soft landing......

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 16 1:48 pm
by mad machs
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 16 2:09 pm
by drewcrane
Pete wrote:Looks like the flying Bum has crash landed on its 2nd test flight.

I imagine it will be a soft landing......
I see the cockpit was damaged :(

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 16 2:19 pm
by mad machs

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 16 6:05 pm
by Pete
I wonder how many people get the Manitee joke; very good.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 16 8:39 pm
by drewcrane
Pete wrote:I wonder how many people get the Manitee joke; very good.
Not me :oops:

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 16 9:39 pm
by Pete
Drew - Watch the actual footage of the Hindenburg incident at Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey. Listen to the broadcast, quite harrowing really....

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 16 4:52 am
by drewcrane
Pete wrote:Drew - Watch the actual footage of the Hindenburg incident at Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey. Listen to the broadcast, quite harrowing really....
here is what I watched,




in modern time it reminds me of the challenger disaster :o

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 16 10:50 am
by TyreFryer
This is what you want Drew,

Listen from 4:30 onwards but the reference is at about 5:30, humorous though?!? :?

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 16 11:46 am
by Blue
Play on words, "Oh the humanity". yea not exactly a thigh slapper....

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 16 2:18 pm
by mad machs
Hey, it's an internet Meme, and I don't make the rules. Plus it could've been worse, much worse ;)


Some based on 'The Humidity' 'The Economy' etc etc .

Anyhow that aside, the conspiracy theories still echo on the cause of the Hindenburg disaster, sabotage, the outer skin spontaneously igniting, a carelessly discarded cigarette.
Obviously being puffed up with hydrogen didn't help.

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 16 3:34 pm
by TyreFryer
I heard it was designed to run on helium but the USA wouldn't sell them it, so they had to use hydrogen, don't know how true that is?

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 16 7:27 pm
by drewcrane
TyreFryer wrote:This is what you want Drew,

Listen from 4:30 onwards but the reference is at about 5:30, humorous though?!? :?

Pretty emotional every time I hear it,still sends a shiver :shock: