The Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg
Author | : Barbara Waibel |
Publisher | : Sutton Verlag GmbH |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3954003015 |
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Author | : Barbara Waibel |
Publisher | : Sutton Verlag GmbH |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3954003015 |
Author | : John Duggan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Hindenburg (Airship) |
ISBN | : 9780951411483 |
The LZ 129 took four years to build at a time when the world was suffering the impact of the Great Depression and it took the financial support of the National Socialists to bring the work to completion. Ownership of the airship passed from her builders, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH to the 1935-established operating company, the Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei, whose objectives included showing the flag at home and abroad. The Hindenburg was involved in propaganda events of 1936, namely the Plebiscite Flight, the Olympic Games and Party celebrations at the Nurnberg Rally. Following successful service on the South and North Atlantic services, she crashed when coming in to land at Lakehurst in May 1937. Numerous theories as to the cause of the disaster are analysed, including the influence of commercial pressures, which caused a hurried landing to take place in dangerous conditions. A careful analysis of the financial performance of the North American service reveals that an increased number of flights in 1937 would have secured an operational profit. Route details for all flights, together with numerous photographs not published before, complete the story of the Hindenburg.
Author | : Dan Grossman |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Aircraft accidents |
ISBN | : 9780750989916 |
A wealth of research has gone into collating the definitive photographic record of Zeppelin Hindenburg
Author | : Hans G. Knausel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780764344787 |
On July 2, 1900, Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin made the first ascent in an airship of his own design. The flight was initially viewed with skepticism, however public opinion changed after the destruction of his fourth airship at Echterdingen. Zeppelin received so many donations that not only was he able to found his own companies for the purpose of building airships, but also production facilities for the development and manufacture of engines, transmissions, shells, gas cells, airship hangars and even the construction of aircraft. All of these companies enjoyed a tremendous upswing during the First World War. After the war the Zeppelin airship company took some time to get back on its feet, but then produced its crowning achievements - the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and the LZ 129 Hindenburg - memories of which still remain alive and influence the present. Author Hans Knäusel describes the Zeppelin story with a critical look at the economic and political effects of the period, from the beginning until the destruction of the Hindenburg in 1937. He also discusses airships built in other countries using the Zeppelin system, as well as the hangars and landing masts vital to operation of the big airships.
Author | : Rick Archbold |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Aircraft accidents |
ISBN | : 9780785819738 |
The extraordinary story of a time when giant silver zeppelins held the promise of the future is vividly recounted in this volume, highlighted by hundreds of stunning paintings and photos.
Author | : Charles Stephenson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2012-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780965125 |
On 2 July 1900 the people of Friedrichshafen, Germany, witnessed a momentous occasion the first flight of LZ 1, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's first airship. Although deemed a failure, a succession of better craft (LZ2 to 10) enabled the Zeppelin to expand into the consumer market of airship travel, whilst also providing military craft for the German Army and Navy. The years of the Great War saw the Zeppelins undertake strategic bombing missions against Great Britain. This title covers the post-war fate of the Zeppelins, including the crash of the Hindenburg, and their use by the Luftwaffe at the beginning of World War II.
Author | : Douglas Hill Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Hindenburg (Air-ship) |
ISBN | : |
History, with many photos and drawings.
Author | : John Provan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2012-05-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781477510056 |
75 years ago, the explosion at Lakehurst marked a dramatic end to the Golden Days of Lighter-than-Air. The crash of LZ-129 "Hindenburg" was the first disaster to be documented in pictures (one photographer even had Kodak color slide film, which had been developed one year prior), filmed by several national camera teams and recorded on records with the famous words of reporter Herb Morrison. For it's short existence, the LZ-129 "Hindenburg" was the largest, most luxurious flying object, that mankind ever built. The cheer size, of an airship that was three football fields long and over 16 stories tall, dwarfs our imagination of anything we have ever seen fly. Even the new Airbus A-380 or the advertising blimps of today, such as the Zeppelin NT, the largest airship operating today can not compare. The 25 such airships would fit inside the "Hindenburg". The passengers were offered a spacious social rooms, a music room with piano, a writing room, sleeping quarters with running hot and cold running water, a shower, a bar in which one could even smoke (despite the flammable hydrogen gas), and even real china and silverware, with fresh cooked meals provided three times a day. No aircraft today, can offer compare. This book covers in detail, the construction, early test flights and later regular passenger flights up until that fateful day. The appendix includes not only a short list of all these flights, but also includes the most complete passenger list ever compiled. Yet, faith in superior technology was short lived. Just like the passenger ship, "Titantic", a quarter century prior; the "Hindenburg" marked yet another disaster that would shake that faith and remain embedded in our memories.
Author | : Edward Regis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465065945 |
"Examines the perils of what the author calls pathological technologies, inventions whose sizeable risks are routinely minimized as a result of their almost mystical allure, "--Novelist.
Author | : Source Wikipedia |
Publisher | : University-Press.org |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230640860 |
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: LZ 129 Hindenburg, Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage, Led Zeppelin, Focke-Wulf Fw 200, Junkers Ju 52, The Hindenburg, Charles Emery Rosendahl, Junkers Ju 86, Hindenburg class airship, Junkers Ju 90, Dornier Do 18, Herbert Morrison, Hindenburg: The Untold Story, Junkers G.38, Ernst A. Lehmann, The Never War, Junkers Ju 160, Led Zeppelin European Tour 1970, List of passengers and crew aboard the final flight of LZ 129 Hindenburg, List of airworthy Ju 52, Focke-Wulf A 38, Junkers Ju 60, Focke-Wulf A 32, Focke-Wulf A 33. Excerpt: The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board, 35 people died. There was one additional fatality on the ground. The disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field, which was broadcast the next day. The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the end of the airship era. Post card carried on the D-LZ129 "Hindenburg" on its last flight and dropped enroute over Cologne (The Cooper Collections)After opening its 1937 season by completing a single round trip passage to Rio de Janeiro in late March, the Hindenburg departed from Frankfurt on the evening of May 3rd on the first of its 10 round trips between Europe and the United States scheduled for its second year of commercial service. The United...