The Hindenburg, along with its highly successful predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, made numerous trans-Atlantic crossings in their brief but illustrious careers.

The Hindenburg, along with its highly successful predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, made numerous trans-Atlantic crossings in their brief but illustrious careers.

It's hard to imagine today, but the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg were, in their day, considered the ultimate way to travel. "There was a huge zeppelin craze in the late '20s," Grossman explained.

The fiery crash that destroyed the zeppelin Hindenburg in New Jersey on May 6, 1937, marked the end of travel by rigid airship, a stage in aviation history that today seems almost fanciful.

With the success of Graf Zeppelin’s around-the-world flight, what might be called zeppelin mania swept the world. Eckener was given a tickertape parade in New York.

The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany, features a full-size replica of the Hindenburg's starboard section. The town and Lake Constance are also enjoyable.

Like two great bolognas, the Graf Zeppelin and the new Hindenburg (LZ-129) last week floated over Germany on a propaganda tour. While the Graf hovered above Bavaria sprinkling election handbills, ...

He said it would be tremendously unusual for anyone to have a piece of the Hindenburg from 1935. “But fabric from the Graf Zeppelin and the U.S. Navy airships, that was a pretty common souvenir.

It was just horrific.” I got a letter about a fragment of the Graf Zeppelin obtained by a local man who was stationed at Lakehurst and helped repair that damaged German airship in 1928.

Personal correspondence -- 1880-1970 Scope and Contents This collection consists of a handwritten letter, dated June 30, 1936 and on Hotel Graf Zeppelin stationery, from Gardner Hinckley Prescott to ...

On December 8, 1934, the Graf Zeppelin departed from Germany bound for Brazil at the height of the Christmas season. Aboard the 776-foot-long zeppelin were 19 passengers, holiday mail and a load ...