Addison Bain
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Addison Bain is a retired NASA technician and writer who is credited with postulating the Bain Incendiary-Paint Theory (IPT) that posits that the Hindenburg disaster was initiated by the electrical ignition of lacquer and metal based paints used on the outer hull of the airship. Thus implying that the hydrogen in the airship had no part to play in the initiaton of the disaster.
This theory (proposed in 1997 and recently updated in his 2004 book, "The Freedom Element: Living with Hydrogen") has been generally accepted by people interested in promoting Hydrogen as a transportation fuel and generally rejected by people involved with airships and their history.
The primary refutation is based on the work of Dessler, D.E. Overs, and W.H. Appleby. Their work, both theoretical and experimental, has concluded that even if the airship were covered with solid rocket fuel, as the IPT claims, it would still have taken 12 hours for the airship to burn had hydrogen not been present.
External links
- http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0700/070004.cfm
- [Refutation and Discussion of Dessler, Overs, and Appleby]
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