The Graf Zeppelin was withdrawn from service after the disaster of the Hindenburg airship that catastrophically burst into flames in Lakehurst, New Jersey on its maiden flight. First Atlantic ...

Imagery of the zeppelin disaster has permeated popular ... killing 36 people as it was destroyed while landing in New Jersey. For Brin's airship, electric motors are planned to provide the ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most ...

Most important of all are the internal arrange- ments of this mammoth airship. The Zeppelin compartment system ... gas cells may be removed and new ones inserted while the ship remains afoat.

Unlike today's commercial aviation sector, where startup carriers are established relatively frequently, the early airline ...

The new airship is more technologically advanced ... So, while Goodyear is inviting your suggestion for a name for its new Zeppelin NT-class craft, it seems the company has a definite theme ...

We haven’t seen airships in our skies since the days of the Hindenburg disaster – a German airship that caught fire in the skies over New Jersey. But has airship technology matured? Bedford ...

Lakehurst was “the only place the Hindenburg could go” because it had a hangar where airships like the 804-foot-long ...

Aeroplanes were used to counter the threat from these airships to set fire to the hydrogen and shoot them down. New developments that could penetrate the Zeppelin canopy and set fire to them ...