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[[Image:Hindenburg.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The destruction of the Hindenburg.]]

[[Image:Hindenburg.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The destruction of the Hindenburg.]]

The '''''Hindenburg'' (LZ 129)'''  was the largest [[aircraft]] ever to fly (along with a sister aircraft), having a length nearly as long as the ''[[Titanic]]'' and more than three times as long as a Boeing 747.  The ''Hindenburg'' weighed a massive 242 tons.  The ship was a Zeppelin design, an engineering masterpiece.  It was designed to be filled with non-flammable [[helium]] rather than flammable [[hydrogen]] to make it lighter than air and capable of carrying passengers across the [[Atlantic Ocean]].

The '''''Hindenburg'' (LZ 129)'''  was the largest [[airship|Zeppelin]] ever to fly (along with a sister aircraft), having a length nearly as long as the ''[[Titanic]]'' and more than three times as long as a Boeing 747.  The ''Hindenburg'' weighed a massive 242 tons.  The ship was a Zeppelin design, an engineering masterpiece.  It was designed to be filled with non-flammable [[helium]] rather than flammable [[hydrogen]] to make it lighter than air and capable of carrying passengers across the [[Atlantic Ocean]].

When the Nazi regime came to power, among the actions taken by the United States was a law prohibiting the sale of helium and other resources to [[Germany]] in the 1930s. As a result of this ban, the ''Hindenburg'' was filled with the flammable [[hydrogen]] to make its flights to the [[United States]].  On May 6, 1937, the ''Hindenburg'' caught fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in [[Manchester]], [[New Jersey]]. About one third of those on board, 35 passengers, died not from the [[fire]] but from jumping to the ground below.  Those who stayed calm and rode the aircraft to its landing survived unharmed.

When the Nazi regime came to power, among the actions taken by the United States was a law prohibiting the sale of helium and other resources to [[Germany]] in the 1930s. As a result of this ban, the ''Hindenburg'' was filled with the flammable [[hydrogen]] to make its flights to the [[United States]].  On May 6, 1937, the ''Hindenburg'' caught fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in [[Manchester]], [[New Jersey]]. About one third of those on board, 35 passengers, died not from the [[fire]] but from jumping to the ground below.  Those who stayed calm and rode the aircraft to its landing survived unharmed.

The ''Hindenburg'' was named after the president of Germany, [[Paul von Hindenburg]], who served from 1925 to 1934.

The ''Hindenburg'' was named after the president of Germany, [[Paul von Hindenburg]], who served from 1925 to 1934.

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