the proper onethe closest they could figure is that the stuff they'd coated the outer skin with was highly flammable and, combined with the gas inside, all it would have taken was a tiny spark. the experiments were awesome!
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet,
Wed 16 Jan 2008, 0:42,
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hmmwould've been a surprise it didn't happen before, but it's always going to be open to speculation.
from the doc it looks like one of the canvas panels broke free for some reason, but that's from one of the ground crew's testimony (no one else saw it) and the tv cameras didn't catch it on the day.
i suppose it's easiest to blame the nazis as the designer didn't like em either
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Wed 16 Jan 2008, 1:31,
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from the doc it looks like one of the canvas panels broke free for some reason, but that's from one of the ground crew's testimony (no one else saw it) and the tv cameras didn't catch it on the day.
i suppose it's easiest to blame the nazis as the designer didn't like em either