fabric to allow it to ignite. Another part of the IPT hypothesizes that the mooring cables, which were designed to ground any static electricity on the surface of the airship, worked only partly in this instance; since some of the skin panels still carried an electric charge, at least one of them must have sparked, causing the initial outbreak of fire. Thus it has yet to be proven that an electrical charge could ignite the Hindenburg skin. The design of the ship would likely exclude the skin being an ignition point due to the properties of the doping process, the insulation from the frame and skin of the grounding drop-lines, and the inability of any experiment to ignite the skin via electric spark consistent with the conditions of the 1937 disaster. The television show MythBusters also dedicated the opening episode for their 2007 season to Bain's theory. Scale models of the Hindenburg were built and tested with skin reproductions. One model had no hydrogen while the other did. The only burn that replicated the Hindenburg burn used hydrogen. Bibliography References "The hydrogen technology assessment, phase 1", 1991, NASA Technical Reports Server "An assessment of the government liquid hydrogen requirements for the 1995-2005 time frame including addendum, liquid hydrogen production and commercial demand in the United States",1990, NASA Technical Reports Server "An assessment of the government liquid hydrogen requirements for the 1995-2005 time frame",1990, MASA Technical Reports Server External links Myths about the Hindenburg Disaster Refutation and Discussion of Dessler, Overs, and Appleby The Hindenburg Hydrogen Fire: Fatal Flaws in the Addison Bain Incendiary Paint Theory June 3, 2004 NASA people Florida Institute of Technology alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Hydrogen economy LZ 129 Hindenburg