the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. It had 97 people (36 passengers and 61 ...

Comparison of the LZ 129 Hindenburg with a number of very large airplanes. (Source: Wikimedia) What is undeniably true, however, is that the rise of airplanes during the first half of the 20th ...