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The Hindenburg Over New York: The Airship Age Comes To An Abrupt End

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date April 28, 2017
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PODCAST The era of the Zeppelin, how it shaped the New York skyline and the disastrous crash of the Hindenburg onÂ an airfield in New Jersey. On the afternoon of May 6, 1937, New Yorkers looked overhead at an astonishing sight — the arrival of the Hindenburg, the largest airship in the world, drifting calmly across… Read More

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The Hindenburg over New York, still a startling sight

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date May 9, 2011
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Taken during one of its 1936 voyages, with the New York Times building in the foreground. (source: straatis/Flickr) The anniversary of the 1937 explosion of the German passenger airship Hindenburg over Lakehurst, NJ, was last Friday, May 6, and I spent some time this weekend looking up old videos of the famous Zeppelin floating over Manhattan.… Read More

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