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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of a handwritten letter, dated June 30, 1936 and on Hotel Graf Zeppelin stationery, from Gardner Hinckley Prescott to his ...

A century ago, zeppelin passengers soared across the Atlantic Ocean in luxurious gondolas hanging from humongous hydrogen-filled balloons — the biggest aircraft humanity has ever built. Then, in 1937, ...

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 ...

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 ...