The catastrophic Hindenburg disaster marked the end of airship travel, leading to the Graf Zeppelin's retirement in 1937. The LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin is remembered as the most successful Zeppelin ...

Lakehurst was “the only place the Hindenburg could go” because it had a hangar where airships like the 804 ... That included 34 people riding the zeppelin and one person on the ground crew.

Hindenburg was named after the high-profile disaster of Germany's Hindenburg airship in 1937, which ignited as it flew into New Jersey. After finding potential wrongdoing, Hindenburg published a ...

The firm says it sees the Hindenburg, the airship that famously caught fire in the 1930s to the cry of “Oh, the humanity,” as the “epitome of a totally man-made, totally avoidable disaster.” ...