Comment by maxbond
16 hours ago
Hydrogen is not picky about fuel air mixture; it will explode at any concentration between 4% and 74% (in air). I rewatched the footage and it sure looks like an explosion to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OetzoO3Csj4
The thermite paint hypothesis is interesting but a bunch of hydrogen airships exploded. The Hindenburg was partly made from metal recovered from the R101. The R101 exploded on her maiden voyage.
At 24 seconds in, that looks indeed fast. But still not what one would expect of "Knallgas" going boom.
We might expect it to look differently, but it would appear that that's exactly what a hydrogen explosion looks like. By what means do you believe the camera, at least a hundred meters away, shakes?
Did it shake by a blast? Or was it just hastily turned around, to catch the flames?
I've watched many videos about that in the past, even ones where there were overlays with 3d-point-clouds.
Not in the mood to analyze this one further. Have doubts about it being really 'real time', conversion errors, whatver.
Maybe our understanding of 'explosion' is different. By explosion I mean something coming apart fast in an instant, with a bang, things flying away, shockwave.
That wasn't that, more like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflagration
Caused by whatever. Very likely propagated by the flammable paint on the hull. Like a flash fire.
Which was my initial point.
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