Hindenburg's Smoking Room | Airships.net

Yes, there really was a smoking room on the Hindenburg…  even though the zeppelin was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen...

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Herbert Morrison: La voz del desastre del Hindenburg

El periodista estadounidense Herbert Morrison es recordado por su impactante reportaje en vivo sobre el desastre del dirigible Hindenburg, un evento que se convirtió en un hito en la historia de la radiodifusión. El 6 de mayo de 1937, Morrison se encontraba en el lugar del suceso, en el aeropuerto de Lakehurst, Nueva Je…

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https://akerix.com/on-this-day/05-14-herbert-morrison-journalist-1905

Herbert Morrison (journalist) — Akerix

American journalist (1905–1989)

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The Truth About The Hindenberg

The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and [The History Guy] marked the event with a video that dispels many of the myths surrounding the airship. Example: the disaster did n…

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The Truth About The Hindenberg

The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and [The History Guy] marked the event with a video that dispels many of the myths surrounding the airship. Example: the disaster did n…

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Oh the humanity! Today is the anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster (5/6/1937 at 7:52PM in Lakehurst, NJ).

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89 Years Later, It's Still Incredible How Good the Images of the Hindenburg Crash Are

On this day in history, the Hindenburg disaster killed 35 in New Jersey.

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1937, the Nazi #dirigible #Hindenburg exploded in New Jersey, killing 36 people, and bringing to an end the era of trans-Atlantic rigid airship service. Ships this size used hydrogen, which is highly flammable, but Zeppelins were still engineering marvels.
"...the friends were standing together in the passenger cabin of the Hindenburg airship as it prepared to land May 6, 1937, at Lakehurst, New Jersey. They were moments away from...“one of the worst catastrophes of the world” "
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/06/landmarks-hindenburg-chicago-passengers/
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Die #Hindenburg war nicht nur eine Katastrophe, sondern auch Symbol dafür, wie neue Freiheitsgrade oft erst durch Risiko entstehen. Lakehurst, am heutigen Tag in 1937 … zeigt, dass #Wasserstoff eine große Innovation ist, die aber erst beherrscht werden muss, bevor sie zur neuen Normalität wird.🖖

🗓️ 6. Mai 1937: „Das Luftschiff LZ 129 #Hindenburg geht bei der Landung in #Lakehurst (USA) in Flammen auf. Es sterben 36 Menschen.“

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129

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