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Re: Ths Historic Pictures Of Graf Zeppelin Airship

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:04 pm
by jeevan
The smoking room.

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The bar.

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Control car, flight instruments, and flight controls.

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Crew areas and keel. The Hindenburg was three times longer and twice as tall as the Boeing 747.

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On the 6th of May 1937, the LZ129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst.

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There were 97 people on board, 36 passengers and 61 crewmen, 36 people died - 13 passengers and 22 crewmen, as well as one worker on the ground. The event shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the abrupt end of the airship era.