In the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British ...

Longest flight: The Graf Zeppelin's 6,168-mile non-stop transatlantic crossing took 111 hours and 44 minutes. Luxury travel: The airship offered 10-passenger cabins, luxurious dining, and ...

His point is borne out by the numbers. During the creation of the Graf Zeppelin, the company’s most successful airship, the Weimar government subsidized the project with between 1 million and 1. ...

The 19-foot-wide and 43-foot-long dining room featured silk wallpaper depicting the exploits of the Hindenberg's sister ship, the Graf Zeppelin. The chairs were even made from tubular aluminum to ...

Eden Prairie’s Flying Cloud Airport will play host to the world’s largest passenger airship this week. The Farmers Airship is the only commercial airship with passenger operations in ...

Documentary Film which uses the letters and diaries of passenger Lady Grace DrummondHay and archival footage to document the Graf Zeppelin airships circumnavigation of the globe in 1929 In 1928 ...

On Aug. 29, 1929, the German airship, the Graf Zeppelin, completed its around-the-world flight, beginning and ending at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Francisco Pizarro González ...

long, 4 ft. in diameter which travel four to a flatcar. ­46 others were lost in the World War—the rest, except for the Graf Zeppelin and the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst. were ...

The Hindenburg, along with its highly successful predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, made numerous trans-Atlantic crossings in their brief but illustrious careers. Constructed out of an aluminum alloy ...