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12/25/2022

LZ-129 Hindenburg under construction, Christmas 1935.

12/24/2022

1928 Christmas card of U.S. Navy airship ZR-3, U.S.S. Los Angeles. Merry Christmas from http://Airships.net!

09/21/2022

It’s a beautiful idea … but without an airship that can fly, it’s hard to get an airship cruise off the ground.

It’s selling shares to do this. First, it needs a working dirigible.

07/04/2022

05/31/2022

Flying Magazine article about the new airships being built by LTA Research.

https://www.flyingmag.com/google-co-founder-plans-longest-u-s-airship-since-1930s/

02/21/2022

The first episode of The History Channel's new series, "I Was There," concerns the Hindenburg disaster.

(If you're willing to put up with a few commercials, you can watch it for free, at least in USA.)

https://play.history.com/shows/i-was-there/season-1/episode-1

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12/07/2021

On the return of the Zeppelin. Sergey Brin to the rescue?

11/03/2021

I have fond memories of meeting Mrs. Close, who flew on LZ-129 Hindenburg as a child, at Lakehurst.

(While she is sometimes referred to as the "last surviving person to have flown on Hindenburg," happily Horst Schirmer is still alive and well and so that is not fortunately not accurate.)

“York County mourns the loss of one of our greatest leaders and visionaries.” Anne Springs Close’s legacy includes education and recreation in South Carolina.

11/03/2021

(En pensant à Thibault Prx, naturellement.)

Le procédé date du XIXe siècle, mais une entreprise française parie sur son renouveau avec ce LCA60T.Un ballon capable de charger et de...

08/13/2021

I have been communicating with the seller on eBay, asking for the provenance of this item (i.e., how the seller came to own it; the trail of ownership from Leibrecht to the seller). All I will say is that his replies have been very cagey and have raised suspicions rather than decrease them.

The item was purchased by someone at last month's Felzmann Auction for € 1,260 ($1,486 USD) (see screen shot in the comments below) but the eBay seller refuses to say how he obtained it.

Original rare Zeppelin Hindenburg crash relic! DZR ID card from the Hindenburg board electrician Josef Leibrecht.

08/09/2021

A passenger's account of his 1936 flight on the airship Hindenburg.

https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/crossing-atlantic-ihindenbergi-180978188/

“Europe to America in under 60 hours—incredible!”

06/20/2021

Another father of the Zeppelin airship.

Airship pioneer Hugo Eckener was an early associate of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, and earned worldwide fame as a zeppelin commander and tireless advocate for...

06/20/2021

Happy Father's Day to the father of the Zeppelin airship.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin) was born on July 8, 1838 on an island in the Bodensee (Lake Constance)....

05/23/2021

Streaming on PBS.

A revealing new investigation of one of history’s most iconic aviation disasters.

05/21/2021

A PBS documentary investigates the cause of the infamous 1937 explosion that tanked the airship industry