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 Zeppelins constructed, the most famous ...

The fleet, gray Zeppelin Hindenburg, the greatest lighter-than-air craft in the world, was blown asunder and consumed by flames at 7:25 o’clock last night 300 feet above the heads of a thousand ...

A drizzle fell as the 36 passengers stepped off the bus at the city's international airport from the Frankfurter Hof Hotel. Looming before them was the largest airship ever built: LZ-129 — the ...

A photo of the Hindenburg on its maiden voyage used on postcards. Photo:Wikimedia Commons" No-one on board the Hindenburg for its first flight on March 4th, 1936 could have imagined the tragedy that ...

In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel "Debt of Honor," a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to ...

“Oh, the humanity!” was the cry from radio announcer Herbert Morrison on May 6, 1937, as the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin burst into flames over Lakehurst, New Jersey. Morrison's breathless description ...

In 1936, the Hindenburg – a hydrogen-filled airship also known as a zeppelin or dirigible – had “cruised back and forth over the North Atlantic carrying hundreds of passengers without the slightest ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — I am looking at a piece of the Hindenburg — or, rather, its replica: its lounge, reading and writing room, passenger cabins and smoking room (yes, there was one) and bar. It ...

Welcome to the 21st century. Flying cars. Disposable clothing. And overhead, fleets of majestic airships, ferrying glamorous international passengers from America to Europe and back again, all through ...

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 famous ...