I'd heard years ago about the aluminized paint causing the disaster, and it sounded sort-of plausible (but then again there was always the subsequent nagging feeling: the Germans have a reputation for being very careful about technical things, so it seemed rather ridiculous that they would really use a highly flammable paint), but then more recently heard that it had been debunked. I checked Snopes and didn't see anything.

So I just searched for "Hindenburg" and followed some links at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia....LZ_129_Hindenburg (specifically reference #46).

It's easy when Wikipedia has the important sources already. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.