When the Hindenburg burst into flames over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, so did the dreams of large-scale air travel by dirigible. A recent article in the UK Guardian called the Hindenburg “the Concorde of its day – able to cross the Atlantic in about three days, twice as fast as going by sea.” Since then, the Hindenburg has become nearly as famous as the Titanic, in part because of the mystery that surrounds the cause of the fire and also because of the pictures and movie clips that exist of the disaster. People are still curious about it even 76 years later. My 11-year-old was even talking to me about it recently. Now a group of researchers have said that they know how the Hindenburg caught fire. Jem Stansfield, a British aeronautical engineer at the South West Research Read more…