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    LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg...
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    like the Hindenburg class were widely considered the future of air travel,[citation needed] and the lead ship of the class, LZ 129 Hindenburg, established...
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    The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S. The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff...
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  • Engineers 129 (New Jersey bus) LZ 129 Hindenburg, an airship Henschel Hs 129, a German World War II ground-attack aircraft Soviet submarine K-129 129 (barge)...
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    22, 1922 – August 13, 2014) was the cabin boy aboard the ill-fated LZ 129 Hindenburg which crashed on May 6, 1937. At the time of the crash he was only...
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    full-scale, partial model of the airship LZ 129 Hindenburg. The exhibition also includes an original engine nacelle of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin airship and a Maybach...
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  • Max Pruss (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    1891 – 28 November 1960) was the commanding captain of the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the disaster. Max...
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  • Zabrze, Poland LZ 129 Hindenburg, an airship involved in a disaster Hindenburg-class airships Hindenburg (icebreaker) SMS Hindenburg, a 1917 battlecruiser...
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    transatlantic revenue service, including the famous LZ 129 Hindenburg. Following the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 the DZR stopped transatlantic service...
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  • constructing the largest rigid airship in history, the LZ 129 Hindenburg, lead ship of the Hindenburg class. However, the company's fortunes soured during...
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    Ben Dova (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    Marathon Man (1976). Dova was a passenger on board the LZ 129 Hindenburg during the Hindenburg disaster and escaped using his acrobatic skills. The FBI...
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  • the Hindenburg disaster Problems playing this file? See media help. Newsreel footage of the 6 May 1937 Hindenburg disaster, where the zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg...
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  • The Hindenburg is a 1975 American Technicolor disaster film based on the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. The film stars George C. Scott. It was produced and...
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    of LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. That revived the company's fortunes and, during the 1930s, the airships Graf Zeppelin, and the even larger LZ 129 Hindenburg operated...
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  • Herbert Morrison (journalist) (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    broadcast his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 35...
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    second and final ship of the Hindenburg class, and the second zeppelin to carry the name "Graf Zeppelin" (after the LZ 127) and thus often referred to...
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    Macon were among the largest flying objects ever built. Although LZ 129 Hindenburg and LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II were some 18 ft (5.5 m) longer and slightly...
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    not surpassed by another hydrogen-filled rigid airship until the LZ 129 Hindenburg was launched seven years later. After trial flights and subsequent...
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    fabric from the LZ 129 Hindenburg that survived the Hindenburg disaster. Universal's filming model of the LZ 129 Hindenburg from The Hindenburg. Mercury-Atlas...
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  • Werner Doehner (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    Mexican and American electrical engineer and last living survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, when the German passenger-carrying rigid airship caught fire...
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  • other transportation vessels including the Bismarck, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg. His paintings have been used in many books about the...
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    It was the intended destination of the rigid airship LZ 129 Hindenburg prior to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, when it burned while landing...
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    around. A minute before the crash of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin's LZ 129 Hindenburg on 6 May 1937, Professor Mark Heald (1892–1971) of Princeton saw St...
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    Lakehurst Maxfield Field (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    at Lakehurst with the MZ-3. The installation was the site of the LZ 129 Hindenburg disaster on 6 May 1937. Despite the notoriety and well-documented...
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    passenger Zeppelins LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, and the U.S. Navy airships USS Los Angeles (ZR-3, ex-LZ 126), USS Akron...
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  • The Hindenburg disaster has featured in a variety of popular culture films, TV programs and books. The Hindenburg is a 1975 film about the disaster. Although...
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    specifically to operate a passenger service across the Atlantic. The Hindenburg (LZ 129) completed a successful 1936 season, carrying passengers between Lakehurst...
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    The largest airship ever built was the Zeppelin LZ 129 "Hindenburg". First flying in 1936, the Hindenburg had a volume of 200,000 cubic metres (7,100,000 cu ft)...
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  • German Albatros D.III which flew from Zeppelin L 35 (LZ 80) on January 26, 1918. The LZ 129 Hindenburg later conducted trials using parasite aircraft in...
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  • Led Zeppelin (album) (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    Page's childhood friend Glyn Johns, and the iconic album cover showing the Hindenburg disaster was designed by George Hardie. Led Zeppelin showcased the group's...
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