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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 her class...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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)
    September 1891 – 28 November 1960) was the captain of the Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg on its last voyage and a surviving crew member of the disaster. Max...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    identical to the LZ 129 Hindenburg, and was originally designed to use hydrogen as lifting gas.[citation needed] It was built to replace the aging LZ 127 Graf...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    of 2000 hp that had a variety of applications.[citation needed] LZ 129 Hindenburg LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II Schnellboot 1933 series S10...13 A preserved...
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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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  • company Agusta The 129th Rescue Wing (129 RQW) is a unit of the California Air National Guard LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin which went up in...
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