NBC NEWS Panel Wagon 'HINDENBURG NEW JERSEY 5 6 1937
by Robert Rhoads
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NBC NEWS Panel Wagon 'HINDENBURG NEW JERSEY 5 6 1937
Artist
Robert Rhoads
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Digital Art
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The huge airship more than three times longer than a Boeing 747 was engulfed in flames and sank to the ground in less than a minute. Photographers and newsreel crews on hand for the landing captured the scene, and a shocked radio station broadcaster recorded the often replayed phrase Oh, the humanity and all the passengers!
The 804-foot-long Hindenburg was cutting-edge technology, with its fabric-covered, metal frame held aloft by more than 7 million cubic feet of lighter-than-air hydrogen. Flammable hydrogen had to be used because of a U.S. embargo on nonflammable helium.
It was the Concorde of its day back in 1936 and 37,said Carl Jablonski, president of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society. But after the fire, he said, it would be called the Titanic of the sky.
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