The larger they grew the safer they became in the air. And the larger they grew the more like the ocean steamship they became in their appointments. A modern Zeppelin or Parseval, with its huge ...
Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most ...
The USS Shenandoah only had a short career but started the age of the Navy operating giant airships ... tire manufacturer teamed with Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei GmbH of Friedrichshafen, Germany ...
the Hindenburg Zeppelin -- filled with highly flammable hydrogen -- exploded in the United States in 1937, killing 36 people and ending the widespread use of airships.Airship revivalYet the ...
Rightly so, the smoking room was separated from the rest of the Zeppelin by an airlock and the room was kept at a positive air pressure so no hydrogen could leak in. In addition, no open flames ...