Lakehurst was “the only place the Hindenburg could go” because it had a hangar where airships like the 804-foot-long dirigible could be repaired, noted historical society volunteer Kevin Mulligan.

Last year, however, Akron’s Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., ... To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed two ribs, thus shortened her seven feet.

He, one Morris Roth, 18, plumber’s helper, of Trenton, N. J., was caught crawling along a high girder in the Lakehurst hangar. He had a 175-ft. rope with him and had planned to slide down it to ...

Zeppelin fragments once were popular souvenirs Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on May 7, 1937.) The fleet, gray Zeppelin Hindenburg, the greatest lighter-than-air craft in the world, was blown asunder and consumed by flames at 7:25 o&#8… ...

The USS Shenandoah leaves its hangar at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. The airship was 680 feet long and weighed 36 tons. ... The U.S. Navy had designated the 680-foot-long zeppelin ZR-1.

88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans ...

When you mention the Hindenburg, people tend to perk up. Its destruction still qualifies as one of the most spectacular aerial disasters in history. The Graf Zeppelin, not so much. Yet in its day, … ...

SAFELY stored in its home hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, the Graf Zeppelin, largest aircraft in existence and the world’s first commercial dirigible, rested after her record-breaking ...