Companies are betting that diesel-powered zeppelins will be part of the next wave of innovative air travel that will be remarkably safer and greener than Hindenburg-era balloons, according to a ...

Then, in 1937, the Hindenburg crashed and burned, and the future of the airship industry went up in smoke. Now, a handful of start-ups want to revive the airship as an alternative for some cargo ...

While here, the ship would lay in its hangar at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Hindenburg’s first flight to America began on May 6, 1936.

Lakehurst was “the only place the Hindenburg could go” because it had a hangar where airships like the 804-foot-long dirigible could be repaired, noted historical society volunteer Kevin Mulligan.

The Hindenburg later became the Graf Zeppelin’s North American counterpart, ... As he entered the huge naval hangar, he caught sight of the Los Angeles, which, as the ZR-3, ...

MANCHESTER – For decades, the anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster was remembered at Hanger One at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst during a public ceremony. In a break of tradition, that didn’t ...

The giant hangars near Cambridgeshire where Britain's doomed airship set off on fateful voyage. While the Hindenburg disaster is the most famous airship crash in world history, ...

To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed two ribs, thus shortened her seven feet. Even so, she is 803 ft. long, 135 ft. high, ...

German airship Zeppelin LZ 129 'Hindenburg' burning upon its approach to Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. U.S. Navy sailors, preparing to grab for tether lines on the ...

Even as this prototype learns how to reliably fly in real-world conditions, LTA is starting construction of another and much larger airship, called Pathfinder 3, in the same Akron, Ohio, hangar ...