When you mention the Hindenburg, people tend to perk up. Its destruction still qualifies as one of the most spectacular aerial disasters in history. The Graf Zeppelin, not so much. Yet in its day, ...

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FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — I am looking at a piece of the Hindenburg — or, rather, its replica: its lounge, reading and writing room, passenger cabins and smoking room (yes, there was one) and bar. It ...

In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel "Debt of Honor," a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to ...

I wrote Saturday about a Hanover Township, Northampton County, man who has a piece of what he believed to be the Hindenburg’s skin. Once I saw the item and the accompanying letter – which was dated ...

An American airship designed and flown by Walter Wellman and Melvin Vaniman, with a crew of four others, attempted to make the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1910. The airship set out ...

In today’s world, there are over 100,000 commercial airline flights every day and on rare occasion a small, tacky, promotional blimp. That’s made it unthinkable that lighter-than-air travel could ever ...

Not many people driving up Allentown’s North 6th Street after crossing Turner probably notice the small, yellowish building with the Art Deco façade and the arched front doorway. But some might be ...

BERLIN -- A Zeppelin airship made the first commercial flight today since the fiery Hindenburg disaster in 1937, carrying 12 paying passengers over Lake Constance from the southern German town of ...

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 ...

It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's ...

OCTOBER 15, 1928: The first transatlantic passenger flight was completed on this day in 1928 after Germany’s Graf Zeppelin arrived in the U.S. The 111-hour crossing from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, ...