The Impossible Dream Of The Hindenburg: How Airships Were Going To Change The World
The Hindenburg on fire at Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937 Nationaal Archief via Wikimedia Commons76 years ago today, the Hindenburg crashed over New Jersey, killing 35 people and ending the era of the airship. From the Popular Science archive, what it would have been like to travel the world in a Zeppelin. "Now You Can Fly Around The World," by John E. Lodge and excerpted below, originally appeared in the June 1936 issue of Popular Science magazine. The Hindenburg airship crashed May 6, 1937. Out of the sky over Lakehurst, N. J., a few days hence, the enormous silver Von Hindenburg, biggest Zeppelin ever built, is scheduled to nose down for a landing at the end of its maiden voyage to America. Not many weeks later, the four-engined, twenty-five-ton China Clipper will head out past the promontories of the Golden Gate on its first passenger flight to the Orient. Those...