Certainly the Germans, as the inventors, had far more experience building dirigibles; they weren't suffering outright structural failures causing crashes, as ha

Certainly the Germans, as the inventors, had far more experience building dirigibles; they weren't suffering outright structural failures causing crashes, as happened to the Brits in the same era. Or course, dirigibles weren't the safest way of booking air passage across the Atlantic then, except in so far as they were the only way to book an air passage. Still the Hindenburg may have suffered a fire due to aluminum paint on the skin catching fire.