Seventy Years Later...It's Zeppelin Weekend!
On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, the German dirigible Hindenburg, LZ 129, took off from Frankfurt am Main bound for Lakehurst, New Jersey on this first flight of the 1937 season. As you know, of course, the flight ends on May 6th in tragedy. Oh, the humanity!
In honor of the seventieth anniversary of these events, we at Festung Europa are proud to present Zeppelin Weekend, a look back at the proud history of the airship. Long-range airship travel is one of history's great might-have-beens, or perhaps more aptly, dead ends, alongside such innovations as the 8-track tape and Sony Betamax. But it was a cool, adventuresome and classy way to travel, if you had the money to do so. A one-way ticket would cost almost $6000 today.
But instead of jumping right into disaster, let's take a look at LZ 129 in a better light, as she floats above the spires of downtown Manhattan in a flight from 1936.
video compiled by nedsparks
In honor of the seventieth anniversary of these events, we at Festung Europa are proud to present Zeppelin Weekend, a look back at the proud history of the airship. Long-range airship travel is one of history's great might-have-beens, or perhaps more aptly, dead ends, alongside such innovations as the 8-track tape and Sony Betamax. But it was a cool, adventuresome and classy way to travel, if you had the money to do so. A one-way ticket would cost almost $6000 today.
But instead of jumping right into disaster, let's take a look at LZ 129 in a better light, as she floats above the spires of downtown Manhattan in a flight from 1936.
video compiled by nedsparks
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