BERLIN -- A Zeppelin airship made the first commercial flight today since the fiery Hindenburg disaster in 1937, carrying 12 paying passengers over Lake Constance from the southern German town of ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...

The Zeppelin Company, founded in 1908 by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its airships and transoceanic commercial air service. This collection consists of three copies of a ...

On an early Sunday morning in 1933, Trinidad looked up and saw a giant: the dirigible airship Graf Zeppelin gliding across the island on a transatlantic journey. Crowds gathered from Mayaro to Port of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH), founded in 1908 in Germany by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its ...

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, and figured out the ...

The sprawling Hannover convention center grounds as seen from the Zeppelin. Photo: Jack Roberts Zeppelins differ from blimps in that they have a rigid internal structure to provide strength to the ...