The Hindenburg disaster remains one of the most iconic tragedies in aviation history. On May 6, 1937, the massive German ...

Once the giants of the sky, airships promised luxury and power—until one fiery disaster changed aviation forever. Discover ...

Clearly those numbers weren’t fact-checked since only 36 people ended up perishing in the disaster. Werner Doehner was just 8 when the airship suddenly began to tilt.

On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship burst into flames over a New Jersey field. 75 years later, the disaster remains a source of mystery and fascination. The Hindenburg was one of the first ...

Addison Bain’s obsession with the Hindenburg disaster began on his lunch break in the early 1990s when three words caught his eye.. A rocket fuel expert, Bain liked to wander across the street ...

All this made the Hindenburg disaster much more prominent in the eyes of the public than other airship catastrophes that took place. But according to Dan Grossman, airships weren't here to stay ...

On May 6, 1937, the German airship Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames in Lakehurst, New Jersey, while the airship was landing. NASM, Archives Division “In the 20th century, there are ...

In the 1930s, zeppelins or hydrogen-filled airships looked like the future of commercial air travel. The Hindenburg, a German airship, ferried passengers across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching ...

Eighty-four years after the airship Hindenburg crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, a new PBS documentary has new evidence about why the disaster may have happened. “Hindenburg: The New Evidence ...

The last survivor of the Hindenburg airship disaster, Werner Gustav Doehner, has died, according to his family. Doehner, 90, passed away at a hospital in Laconia, New Hampshire, on November 8, his ...

As proposed in a recent scientific paper, the new airships would be 10 times bigger than the 800-foot Hindenburg — more than five times as long as the Empire State Building is tall — and soar ...