Mysteres d'archives: 1937 crash du Hindenburg
Documentary (2007)
aka : Verschollene Filmschätze
Late in the afternoon of the 6th May 1937, the dirigible LZ129 Hindenburg is near to moor at Naval Air Station Lakehurst (KNEL) (near New York). It's the second year the most gigantic dirigible makes flights between Germany and the USA. Movie camera are already stopped when it starts exploding and burning. How this could occured ? And why such Atlantic overflights ?
Also from this series:
Mysteres d'archives: 1946, Essais Atomiques a Bikini
Mystères d'archives (TV Series)
Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg
Registration D-LZ129.
IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft, Lighter-Than-Air section.
Nüremberg, september 1936. Please, note the Olympics Rings applied three months before to celebrate the Berlin Olympic Games.
During one of its 63 flights.
Landing at Lakehurst Maxfield Field, New Jersey.
Inside the hangar at Lakehurst Maxfield Field, New Jersey. Note the registration D-LZ129.
Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
Registration D-LZ127.
IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Junkers F 13
Junkers F 13 (wearing URRAH on its right side) to salute the Hindenburg returning home (after its first commercial Atlantic flight or World Tour).
Junkers Ju 52
Nüremberg, september 1936 : at least, the aircrafts on the right.
Dornier Do 23
Nüremberg, september 1936.
Heinkel He 111
Nüremberg, september 1936.
Unidentified Dirigible
Overflying the Bremen, in the distance, (probably) an american airship (return to Germany of the fatalities, mid may 1936).
Two unidentified airship, date unknown, probably the arrival of LZ 129 following its first ocean flight in 1936.
Unidentified Aircraft
Overflight of Lakehurst with the LZ129 already moored.
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