1937 HINDENBURG GERMAN AIRSHIP ICONIC EXPLOSION 8X10 PHOTO LAKEHURST NJ AVIATION

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1937 HINDENBURG GERMAN AIRSHIP ICONIC EXPLOSION 8X10 PHOTO LAKEHURST NJ AVIATION
1937 HINDENBURG GERMAN AIRSHIP EXPLOSION AVIATION PHOTO.
This would be a fantastic addition to your collection! It is a reproduction 8 x 10 inch glossy photo with white border. It is crisp and clear and perfect focus. You will love it!
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Weeks before the last flight, a letter from a Kathie Rauch of Milwaukee predicted that the Hindenburg would be sabotaged and explode. Because of this and similar bomb threats, there were a few Luftwaffe security officers on board, but it is unclear if anything was done by the Zeppelin Company about the bomb threats. On the night of May 3, 1937, the Hindenburg left Frankfurt, Germany for Lakehurst, New Jersey. The crossing was uneventful, except for strong headwinds. The ship was only half full, with only 36 passengers and 61 crew members, but the return flight was fully booked by people attending the coronation. On May 6, the ship arrived in America. The ship was already very late, but the landing was further delayed because of bad weather. Captain Max Pruss took passengers on a tour through New York City, and the seasides of Boston and New Jersey. Finally, at around 7:00 p.m. local time, altitude 650 feet, the Hindenburg approached the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. This landing was different, known as a high landing or flying moor, because the ship was winched down from a higher altitude. This type of landing manuever would save the number of ground crew, but would require more time. At around 7:08 the ship made a full-speed left turn to the west. A few minutes later the ship turned back towards the landing field and valves gas and all engines idle ahead and the ship began to slow. At 7:14, and altutude 394 feet, Captain Pruss ordered aft engine full astern to try to brake the ship. Later, at 7:19, the ship dropped 300, 300, and 500 kg of water ballast to try to correct the slight stern heaviness. Six men (all who were killed, including possible saboteur Eric Spehl) were also sent to the bow to trim the ship. None of these attempts to correct the problem worked, but Pruss was now permitted to land. At 7:21, altitude 295 feet, the mooring lines dropped from the bow. At this point, the cameramen were filming the lines being caught by the ground crew, and missed what was about to happen. At 7:25, witnesses started reporting a small jet of flame near the vent in front of the upper fin.  Disaster The Hindenburg, moments after catching fire.At 7:25 p.m. local time, the Hindenburg caught fire violently, sometimes described as an explosion. The fire started around cell 4, and quickly spread forward. The ship's back broke, though the ship still remained as one piece and the nose was facing upwards. As the Hindenburg's tail crushed the ground, a burst of flame came out of the nose, killing all of the six crew members in the bow. As the ship kept falling with the bow faced upwards because there was more gas in the nose, part of the port side in front of the front engine and behind the passenger deck crushed in, and a third fire started, erasing the scarlet lettering "hindenburg" (sic) while the ship's bow lowered. The ship's gondola wheel touched the ground, causing the ship to bounce up once more. At this point, all of the fabric had burned away. At last, the ship went crushing on the ground, bow first. The incident is widely remembered as one of the most dramatic accidents of modern time. The cause of the accident has never been determined, although many theories, some highly controversial, have been proposed. Death toll Despite the violent fire, most of the crew and passengers survived. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew, 13 passengers and 22 crew died. Also killed was one member of the ground crew, Navy Linesman Allen Hagaman. Most deaths did not arise from the fire but were suffered by those who leapt from the burning ship. (The lighter-than-air fire burned overhead.) Those passengers who rode the ship on its descent to the ground survived. Some deaths of crew members occurred because they wanted to save more people on board the ship. In comparison, almost twice as many perished when the helium-filled USS Akron crashed.
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