The around-the-world flight of the hydrogen-filled German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, was one of the biggest news stories of 1929. The craft took off from Lakehurst, N.J., on Aug. 8, 1929, heading east ...

Graf Zeppelin navigator Max Prüß uses a sextant to find a Sun line of position during a record-setting, around-the-world flight in 1929. (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) It was ...

The cards and letters aboard the Graf Zeppelin bore a distinctive mark on their envelopes: a small image stamped in ink. National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...

Mighty as thunder, light as a feather, Graf Zeppelin captured the world. The German dirigible was leaving New Jersey on the fastest trip ever made around the world. Jacksonville, natch, wanted part of ...

The grandest deliberate advertising stunt, grander than the Prince of Wales’ warship jaunts to the U. S. and his Dominions, ended at Friedrichshafen last week, when the Graf Zeppelin snuggled into her ...

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