The Zeppelin Company had proposed LZ 128 in 1929, after the world flight of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. This ship was to be approximately 245 m (804 ft) long and carry 140,000 cubic … See more

After making the first South American flight of the 1937 season in late March, Hindenburg left Frankfurt for Lakehurst on the evening of 3 … See more

Data from Airships: A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History site
General characteristics
• Crew: 40 to 61
• Capacity: 50–70 passengers
• Length: 245 m (803 ft 10 in) See more

• Timeline of hydrogen technologies
• The Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen displays a reconstruction of a 33 m section of the Hindenburg. See more

Launching and trial flights
Four years after construction began in 1932, Hindenburg made its maiden test flight from the Zeppelin dockyards at Friedrichshafen on … See more

• Charlie Chan was a passenger aboard the Hindenburg in the 1937 film Charlie Chan at the Olympics.
• An image of the burning airship was used as the cover of Led Zeppelin's self-titled debut album (1969).
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1. ^ Peter Hancock (2017). Transports of Delight: How Technology Materializes Human Imagination. Cham, Switzerland: Springer … See more