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 ...

The Hindenburg disaster at Navy Lakehurst will mark its 88 th anniversary on May 6. Marking this anniversary, Schmidt will again be at the township branch of the Ocean County Library from 6 to 8 p.m.

While here, the ship would lay in its hangar at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Hindenburg’s first flight to America began on May 6, 1936.

The original question involved a long-ago flight of a lighter-than-air dirigible over Roanoke. The caller wondered if it could have been the great but doomed German airship Hindenburg.

But by playing U.S. clubs throughout 1969, Zeppelin got a growing amount of airplay on FM radio, which had taken to playing entire album sides as opposed to hit singles. Zep were on their way.

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.

This is the sixth in a series. Those who can remember the excitement caused by the Apollo flight to the moon can imagine the excitement of October 1924 as American dirigibles set world records. As the ...

The Graf Zeppelin stayed at Lakehurst having its Los Angeles damage repaired and being refueled and reinflated for its last leg home to Friedrichshafen. ¶ Passengers to Germany numbered 17.

The Graf Zeppelin flies over Chicago, including Soldier Field, for 18 minutes as it makes its way to Lakehurst, N.J., ending its 20,000-mile trip around the world in 21 days. Aug. 23, 1930 ...

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 ...