Despite the 1937 disaster wherein a hydrogen-powered German airship known as the Hindenburg exploded over New Jersey killing 36, dirigibles have remained in flight for over 170 years. Known also as ...
88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans-Atlantic ...
The Hindenburg was considered a luxury lighter-than-air passenger airship - on May 3, 1937 it left Frankfurt, Germany to ...
The Hindenburg airship is most closely associated with the disaster that took place on May 6, 1937, but before tragedy struck, it spent a short but notable life in service, transporting passengers ...
Images of the Hindenburg burning while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey are among the most indelible in the history of mass media. But few people know that the huge ...
For decades, airships were treated as a failed technology buried by the Hindenburg disaster and the rise of modern aviation. Now, that assumption is being challenged by companies developing a new ...