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Greetings Fellow SAS Members,
As the 6th of May draws near, I was recollecting
my paper published in The Citizen Scientist about
the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 (see "Airship
Hindenburg: Experimental Study of the Involvement of the Outer
Covering Paint (Dope) in the Disastrous Final Fire."
I also remember that I promised to post what compounds were
in the doping paint that was used for my experiments. In the
list below I am also posting the paint thinners that were
only used to keep clean the glassware and paint brushes. I
recently got this information from Material Safety Data Sheets
provided by the manufacturer.
These doping paints and thinners were purchased
from Aircraft Spruce &
Specialty Company (AS&SC). The supplier to the distributor
was Certified Coatings Products Company (CCPC).
Material Safety Data Sheet from CCPC
Cellulose Acetate Butyrate Dope
AS&SC Product Name: 09-10500 CERT BUTYRATE DOPE CLEAR
GAL
CCPC Product Name: Butyrate Dope CAB-150
Ingredient Listing: Acetone - Butyl Acetate - Toluene - Methyl
Ethyl
Ketone - Cellulose Acetate Butyrate
Cellulose Nitrate Dope
AS&SC Product Name: 09-09500 CERT NITRATE DOPE CLEAR GAL
CCPC Product Name: Nitrate Dope
Ingredient Listing: Isopropyl Alcohol - Butyl Acetate - Toluene
- Methyl
Ethyl Ketone - Nitrocellulose
Cellulose Acetate Butyrate Dope Thinner
AS&SC Product Name: 09-12000 CERT BUTYRATE THINNER GAL
CCPC Product Name: Butyrate Thinner
Ingredient Listing: Acetone - Diacetone Alcohol - Toluene
- Methyl Ethyl
Ketone
Cellulose Nitrate Dope Thinner
AS&SC Product Name: 09-11500 CERT NITRATE THINNER GAL
CCPC Product Name: Nitrate Thinner
Ingredient Listing: Acetone -Isopropyl Alcohol - - Toluene
- Naphtha-
Methyl Ethyl Ketone - 1 Methoxy-2-Propanol Acetate
There are two additional papers published
elsewhere that compliment my research. The first paper, "The
Hindenburg Hydrogen Fire: Fatal Flaws in the Addison Bain
Incendiary-Paint Theory" (this is a pdf file), encouraged
me to do the experiments.
The second paper, "The
Hindenburg Fire: Hydrogen or Incendiary Paint? (this is
a pdf file), was published in Buoyant Flight. I am
a co-author of this paper.
A listing of other links about the issue
is found at Hindenburg
Hydrogen Fire.
I hope this has helped.
Regards,
William H. Appleby
Fellow SAS Member
Thanks from DinoDig
Editor,
Just saw the article about Southwestern Adventist University's
DinoDig ("The
Bone Bed: Excavating Dinosaur Remains in Wyoming,"
The Citizen Scientist, 22 April 2005). It was great
to see it online at your site. We appreciate you giving us
the space.
Sharon Potter
Participant 2002 & 2003
Web Tips from
Bill Appleby
Editor,
These sites may be of interests to Citizen
Scientists
Weather Data:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/04/21/m1a_wx_0421.html
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Proposed_bill_could_force_federal_weather_data_offline
New Mammal:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_rodent_discovery_leads_to_new_mammal_family
Regards,
William H. Appleby
Flounder Update
from Jamie Farr
Dear Forrest,
Recently a local newspaper on Long Island
published an article by a charter boat captain explaining
his feelings about the small populations of winter bay-bound
flounder found here. Instead of saying that over fishing led
to the decline, he uses the idea that the renewed striped
bass fishery led to more predation of bay founders(pleuronectes
communis). His observations are that striped bass catches
coincide with the flounder peaks in our bays. I've thought
about doing a good survey of these small flounders, which
tend to only remain in bays, as opposed to the larger and
more common Pleuronectes pleuronectes or American
flounder.
I've been observing, too.
Number one, the bass fishery is dependent
on the egg laying ability of the stripers.The right salinity
in upper reaches of creeks and rivers directly affect
their ability to reproduce. I have seen correlations between
large and small mouth mass populations in salt-water-connected
lakes, with good striped bass catches. Therefore the cleanliness
of our bays and rivers, and the clarity and salinity of their
waters, is paramount to good bass catches of any species.
Number two, the incidence of my own winter
flounder catches do not correlate with the bass catches I
get. I believe other factors keep the small bay flounder
going. First, I believe they hide deep in the mud and hibernate
over winter. Striped bass and the American flounder both migrate
to the sea. Also, the small winter
flounder has a particular season where it is fished. It is
actually fished commercially all winter long. I used to see
a net dredge that trawled in our River off Moriches Bay all
winter. It was our Brookhaven Town bay constable counting
the numbers of clams and winter flounder.
The clamming industry has declined here
and the bluefish populations have declined, all due to over
harvesting. I also feel the winter flounder is in decline.
But
a good study of their numbers and their true behavior may
shed more light on their ability to survive those enormous
fishing pressures. Their price per pound at the
fish market has only gone up one dollar over a period of twenty
years.
Jamie Farr 
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