“Oh, the humanity!” was the cry from radio announcer Herbert Morrison on May 6, 1937, as the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin burst into flames over Lakehurst, New Jersey. Morrison's breathless description ...

The 20th century history being filled with disasters, it is not surprising that we seem to be buffeted by one melancholy anniversary after another. But there are disasters and disasters, many of them ...

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 ...

Foreword / Tom D. Crouch -- Foreword / Jürgen Bliebler -- 1. Queen of the skies -- 2. Projekt LZ-129 -- 3. 'Up ship' -- 4. Flying the Nazi flag -- 'Two days to Europe!': the 1936 flight season -- 6.

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first-class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelins constructed, the most famous ...

The fleet, gray Zeppelin Hindenburg, the greatest lighter-than-air craft in the world, was blown asunder and consumed by flames at 7:25 o’clock last night 300 feet above the heads of a thousand ...

Before the rise of the modern airliner, the Zeppelin was the standard-bearer for luxury air travel. The most famous of the Zeppelins was the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg entered service in 1936 and ...