Picture a colossal airship the size of an ocean liner, gliding through the sky with elegance—complete with piano lounges, ...

(Bill Barlow for WHYY) One of the largest remaining pieces of the Hindenburg, a section of the interior alloy girders that held the airship together. (Bill Barlow for WHYY) Kitchenware recovered from ...

Large airships like the Hindenburg dropped its lines and cable ... cable might have punctured one of the sealed hydrogen cells inside the airframe, releasing hydrogen into the air inside the ...

The Hindenburg came to a tragic end in 1937. This video shows the interior of the airship and the events leading up to the accident. The Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built ...

Joint Base. Inside the massive Hangar 1, the Historical Society has an airship memorabilia room. It's filled with artifacts from the Hindenburg, like a section of the airship's frame. There are ...

German airship Zeppelin LZ 129 'Hindenburg' burning upon its approach ... its nose as the tail was caught by a gust of wind. The men inside held on for dear life until the tail came back down.

Aeronautical experts said the only way they could explain an explosion inside the ... famous airship commander, and Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann were skippers of the Hindenburg last year.

The Hindenburg sought to solve the passenger problem by being the largest airship ever built. Built by German engineers, the Zepplin had a light metal frame intended to protect the gas interior ...

Airship Voyages Made Easy," a passenger manual ... "The sight of people burning inside (Hindenburg), … you could see them, but you couldn't get at them," said James Thomas of Lakehurst who ...

Recommended Videos The disaster marked the end of the rigid airship era of air travel. The hydrogen-floated Hindenburg was sparked by something inside the airship. There are several theories as to ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: On May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg burst into flames at ... could have been caused by the ignition of hydrogen inside the gas cells. They said a mixture of 20 percent ...