Beyond the Hindenburg: Airships Throughout History
Posted on October 27, 2017 by jessiekratz
The dramatic, fiery fate of the German rigid airship LZ-129, the Hindenburg, in 1937 is the most famous event of the airship age.
However there were great accomplishments both before and after the Hindenburg: airships broke some of the earliest flight records—the first successful nonstop transatlantic crossing and return, the first air travel with paying customers, the fastest circumnavigation of the globe, and, ignobly, the first aerial strategic bombing of civilians.
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2017/10/27/beyond-the-hindenburg-airships-throughout-history/
