History's most famous zeppelin "Hindenburg"

This flying airship was created and named after the German Reich president, Paul von Hindenburg. Its construction was completed in 1936, and a year later, the largest at the time in the world airship crashed.

Construction Zeppelin LZ 129 "Hindenburg" It took about five years.














The first rise in the air, and a test flight took fourth of March 1936.











Giant ship waterfowl shocked by its size: 245 meters long, and 41, 2 meters in diameter.



Thus, the volume of gas in the cylinders is 200 thousand cubic meters!



The speed of the airship at zero winds could reach 135 km / h.





For the passengers on board were equipped restaurant with kitchen, observation deck, 25 bedrooms, shower room, lounge, reading room and a smoking room.

























Most metallic elements are made of aluminum. Even the piano.



At that time, "Hindenburg" was the champion, overcame the way from Europe to the United States for 43 hours.







The last flight for the zeppelin was the 38th in a row.



Safely overcome for 77 hours, the Atlantic, the airship crashed.



It happened during a landing at a US military base Lakehurst sixth in May 1937.



Of the 97 people on board, 35 were killed and another worker from a terrestrial service.









Cause of the accident until the end and have not been identified. There are several versions.



This katastrofan not become the largest in the history of airships, and the Zeppelin was not the greatest in history. However, the history of its existence and death - one of the most famous ships in the history of waterfowl.