The Hindenburg was the first of two "Hindenburg" Class airships constructed by the Zeppelin Company. Construction of the airship began in 1931 and was completed in 1936.

On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship Shenandoah ZR-1 — translated to “daughter of the stars” — crashed in three sections over Ohio.

The Hindenburg was the first of two "Hindenburg" Class airships constructed by the Zeppelin Company. Construction of the airship began in 1931 and was completed in 1936.

However, after several crashes of helium-filled American airships, a British airship, and then the Hindenburg, it marked the end of the airship era.

Seventy-nine years ago this week, the people of America gasped collectively as newsreels and radio broadcasts announced the demise of one of Germany’s iconic symbols. On May 6, 1937, the airship ...

No-one on board the Hindenburg for its first flight on March 4th, 1936 could have imagined the tragedy that would befall the airship just a year after that maiden voyage.

The Hindenburg, a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, destroyed by fire on May 6, 1937, at the end of the first North American transatlantic journey at Lakehurst Naval Air ...

The world has witnessed far more serious air crashes and footage of carnage is now a dime a dozen. Why is the Hindenburg worth remembering?