Werner Franz, believed to be the last surviving crew member of the German airship Hindenburg that crashed 77 years ago, has died. He was 92. Franz was a 14-year-old cabin boy when the hydrogen-filled ...
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The Hindenburg disaster became one of the most famous tragedies in aviation history after the massive German airship caught ...
LACONIA, N.H. — The last survivor of the Hindenburg airship disaster, Werner Gustav Doehner, has died, according to his family. Doehner, 90, passed away at a hospital in Laconia, New Hampshire, on ...
Mother’s Day was rapidly approaching in early May 1937 when Col. Nelson Morris convinced his friend Burtis Dolan to fly with him across the Atlantic Ocean instead of embarking on his planned ...
The Hindenburg was considered a luxury lighter-than-air passenger airship - on May 3, 1937 it left Frankfurt, Germany to ...
Renowned economist Peter Schiff has delivered a scathing assessment of President Donald Trump‘s recent tariff policy, comparing the rollout and the subsequent pause to the catastrophic failure of the ...
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-Atlantic ...
LAKEHURST, N.J. (WCSC) — The airship Hindenburg burst into flames on this day in 1937 as it attempted to land at the naval air station in Lakehurst, killing more than 30 of the airship’s 97 passengers ...
Airships, which are best known today for their use as advertising blimps, have long been recognized for their potential as large, low-emissions transportation vessels that can haul huge amounts of ...
A photo of the Hindenburg on its maiden voyage used on postcards. Photo:Wikimedia Commons" No-one on board the Hindenburg for its first flight on March 4th, 1936 could have imagined the tragedy that ...