Rigid zeppelins used to carry the rich and well-to-do across the Atlantic Ocean in style. But after the Hindenburg airship crashed in a fiery heap on May 6, 1937, that industry went up in smoke.

The Hindenburg was 804 feet long and 15 stories high, and even boasted a baby grand piano, Bain wrote. It relied on 16 cells filled with hydrogen, although it had originally been designed to work ...

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 ...

The Hindenburg was in commercial service for just one year. Its final flight ended on a stormy afternoon on May 6, 1937. The airship approached its destination, Lakehurst, N.J., with 36 passengers ...

The Hindenburg came to a tragic end in 1937. This video shows the interior of the airship and the events leading up to the accident. The Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built.

Seventy years ago this Sunday, people in New York City looked up in amazement to see the ill-fated zeppelin Hindenburg make its way to an airfield in New Jersey. A poem offers a boy's-eye view of ...