But her most famous trip came in June 1939 when she set a world record for an around-the-world flight made on passenger ...

A plane that crashed in India had over 240 passengers on board. At least 30 were killed, according to rescue workers who ...

The first flight attendant was in a German airship. Today, cabin safety is extremely stringent and very formal, and we never ...

NEARLY a century after zeppelins were largely abandoned, a handful of start-ups are trying to revive the airship for both cargo and passenger flights. Blimps are the biggest aircraft to ever take ...

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says AT² Aerospace’s Z1 hybrid airship uses helium lift, low fuel, no runways.

The other Hindenburg passenger was Anne Springs Close, who was 10-years-old when she flew on Hindenburg's last U.S.-bound flight of the 1936 season — from Frankfurt, Germany, to Lakehurst ...

As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans-Atlantic flight, it burst into flames. Thirteen of its 36 passengers ...

The New York Times Supported by By John Otis Nearly 88 years ago, on the evening of May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg passenger airship met its fiery fate. The German dirigible, which had departed from ...

The commercial flights of Hindenburg, along with Graf Zepplin, pioneered the first transatlantic air service. The ship carried hundreds of passengers and traveled thousands of miles before the ...

The Hindenburg airship transported passengers between Germany and the US. Source: Getty / Fox Photos/ The LZ 129 Hindenburg, built by the Zeppelin company, was 245 metres long — or about three ...

Hindenburg’s death in 1934 paved the way ... Unlike airliners of today, you could walk around and stretch out in the passenger cabin. For entertainment, there was a piano made from aluminum ...