Hindenburg

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Hindenburg

Finishing touches are applied to the A/S Hindenburg in the huge German construction hangar at Friedrichshafen. Workmen, dwarfed in comparison with the ship's huge tail surfaces, are chemically treating the fabric covering the huge hull.
The steel skeleton of "LZ 129", the new German airship, under construction in Friedrichshafen. The airship would later be named after the late Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, former President of Germany.

 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvBBN1I_Nj4&bpctr=1530175008

 

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[ARTESH]

johnbr , Many thanks for sharing these photo and info about these Air ships.

 

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nside the Hindenburg Airship – interior corridor of the passenger cabin. Aluminum was used wherever it was possible to decrease the vessel's weight.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Always been fascinated by this giant of the skies, as well as her sister ships. Even to the point that my favorite stamp (Yes, I collect stamps.) is a peticular Deutsches Reich Graf Zeppelin stamp.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Would have loved to try that...

 

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The Hindenburg dumps water to ensure a smoother landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 9, 1936. The airship made 17 round trips across the Atlantic Ocean in 1936, transporting 2,600 passengers in comfort at speeds up to 135 km/h (85 mph). The Zeppelin Company began constructing the Hindenburg in 1931, several years before Adolf Hitler's appointment as German Chancellor. For the 14 months it operated, the airship flew under the newly-changed German national flag, the swastika flag of the Nazi Party.

 

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Spectators and ground crew surround the gondola of the Hindenburg as the lighter-than-air ship prepares to depart the U.S. Naval Station at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 11, 1936, on a return trip to Germany.

 

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A color photograph of the dining room aboard the Hindenburg.

 

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The Hindenburg flies over the Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts in 1936. Another small plane can also be seen at top right.View attachment 499738

 

[Peter Gunn]

I've always lamented not being able to travel on an airship, it seems a very elegant and luxurious way to travel. That and on a Pan Am Clipper across the Pacific, especially the Boeing 314.

 

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A modern, electrically equipped kitchen aboard the Hindenburg provided for the passengers and crew, seen in this undated photograph.