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  Hindenburg (LZ-129)
At 803.8 feet in length and 135.1 feet in diameter, the German passenger airship Hindenburg (LZ-129) was the largest aircraft ever to fly.
The commercial flights of Hindenburg, along with Graf Zeppelin, pioneered the first transatlantic air service.
She carried hundreds of passengers and traveled thousands of miles before being destroyed in a tragic fire on May 6, 1937 at NAS Lakehurst.
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  Hindenburg
She still holds the record as the largest aircraft ever to fly but, as majestic and awe-inspiring as she was, the Hindenburg was meant to be only the first of a fleet.
Although the Hindenburg is most famous for her fiery death, she was not initially meant to be filled with hydrogen at all.
The majestic airships Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin were emblazoned with the swastika on their vertical fins and had already been flown on many propaganda flights over Germany dropping pamphlets and generally showing of the power of the Nazi movement.
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  Paul von Hindenburg - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1916, Hindenburg, by then a field marshal, succeeded General Falkenhayn as commander of all German armies; Ludendorff was made quartermaster general.
Although Hindenburg was to be tried as a war criminal under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the special German court at Leipzig never even indicted him.
1967), A. Dorpalen, Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic (1964).
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Hindenburg was born in Posen, Prussia (since 1919 Poznań, Poland) [1] on Podgorna street, the son of Prussian aristocrat Robert von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, and his wife, Luise Schwickart, the daughter of a medical doctor, Karl Ludwig Schwickart, and his wife Julie Moennich.
Hindenburg was victorious in the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes against the Russian armies.
Hindenburg, who was a firm monarchist throughout his life, always regarded this episode of his life with considerable embarrassment, and almost from the moment the Kaiser abdicated, Hindenburg insisted that he had played no role in the abdication and assigned all of the blame to Groener.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hindenburg disaster
The Hindenburg was originally intended to be filled with helium, but a United States military embargo on helium led the Germans to modify the design of the ship to use highly flammable hydrogen as the lift gas.
The Hindenburg was originally intended to be filled with helium, but a United States military embargo on helium forced the Germans to modify the design of the ship to use highly flammable hydrogen as the lift gas.
Hindenburg himself was said to be a monarchist who favored a restoration of the German monarchy which his own office had replaced.
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  Hindenburg (airship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hindenburg was originally intended to be filled with helium, but a United States military embargo on helium led the Germans to modify the design of the ship to use highly flammable hydrogen as the lift gas.
Proponents of the IPT also point to fact that the naturally odorless hydrogen gas in the Hindenburg was "odorised" with garlic so that any leaks could be detected, and that there were no reports of garlic odors during the flight or prior to the fire.
The Hindenburg is the primary motif of the first section of Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot.
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 Paul von Hindenburg information - Search.com
Hindenburg was born in Posen, Prussia (modern Poznań, Poland) [1] on Podgorna street, the son of Prussian aristocrat Robert von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, and his wife, Luise Schwickart, the daughter of a medical doctor.
Hindenburg was victorious in the Battle of Tannenberg (1914) and the 1914 Battle of the Masurian Lakes against the Russian army.
Hindenburg who was a firm monarchist throughout his life, always regarded this episode of his life with considerable embarrassment, and almost from the moment the Kaiser abdicated, Hindenburg insisted that he played no role in the abdication and assigned all of the blame to Groener.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Paul von Hindenburg
Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847-1934) was born in Poznan on 2 October 1847, the eldest of three sons, and was educated at cadet schools in Wahlstatt and Berlin.
Hindenburg was consequently promoted to Field Marshal, finally becoming Army Chief of Staff on 29 August 1916, succeeding the man with whom he'd violently disagreed with concerning Eastern policy, Erich Falkenhayn, and whose downfall he had helped to engineer.
Hindenburg became President of the Weimar Republic in 1925, replacing Friedrich Ebert upon the latter's death, achieving re-election in 1932.
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 Hindenburg biography
Hindenburg entered the University of Leipzig in 1757 but at this stage his interests were not focused on mathematics, rather he was interested in a wide range of subjects.
Hindenburg hoped for combinatorial operations to have the same importance as those of arithmetic, algebra and analysis but his expectations were not realised.
In 1781 Hindenburg was appointed as professor of philosophy in the University of Leipzig.
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 hindenberg
The Hindenburg was a rigid "airship" with a stretched outer shell of streamlined silver-colored fabric.
The silver appearance of the Hindenburg was due to a surface varnish of powdered aluminum in a paint formula that resembles the chemistry of modern solid booster rocket fuel.
Careful investigation of the Hindenburg disaster verified the opinion of the engineers on the Hindenburg and proved that it was the flammable aluminum powder filled paint varnish that coated the infamous airship, not the hydrogen that started the fateful fire.
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 Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Cause of the Hindenburg Disaster
The Hindenburg was the culmination of research into the rigid airship that had first been perfected by Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin of Germany around 1900.
As the hydrogen from the aft cells was released, the Hindenburg's tail soon began plummeting and struck the ground as the fire rapidly spread forward consuming the center of the airship.
Hindenburg was almost vertical as the fire raced forward along its outer skin to engulf the remainder of the ship.
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 BBC - History - Paul von Hindenburg (1847 - 1934)
Praise for Ludendorff's invasion of Russia was misdirected to Hindenburg, who was appointed field marshal and commander of all German land forces, with Ludendorff at his side.
After the overthrow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hindenburg oversaw the suppression of left-wing risings and was elected president in 1925.
Hindenburg was re-elected president in 1932, mainly with the support of those who saw him as a protection against Nazi lawlessness and brutality.
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 Failure Magazine-Archives-History-The Hindenburg
Hindenburg) was completed in March 1936, airships—self-propelled lighter-than-air craft with directional control ability—seemed poised to become the preferred mode of future transoceanic travel.
Regardless, the Hindenburg was a big hit in the U.S. In its first year of operation the immense airship regularly flew back-and-forth between Germany and Lakehurst, NJ attracting crowds and media coverage whenever it reached American shores.
The Hindenburg slowed and finally came to a stop approximately 800 feet from its mast at an altitude of 260 feet.
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 ::Paul von Hindenburg::
It was Hindenburg who advised the government to seek an armistice as he knew that by the autumn of 1918, Germany could not successfully fight against the Allies — especially as they were now fighting the full might of the American army.
In 1925, Hindenburg was persuaded to stand in the presidential elections — the result of Ebert’s death.
Hindenburg had been persuaded by his son and Franz von Papen, that Hitler could be controlled and that if anything went wrong, then Hitler and the Nazis would get the blame thus damaging their political standing in Germany.
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 Disaster of the Hindenburg
The LZ –129 Zeppelin Hindenburg was the pride of the German National Socialist Government.
As the Hindenburg approached it’s mooring mast at Lakehurst Airfield, however, a blue flame was seen by observers running along the airship’s back.
An electrical discharge, coupled with the fact that the huge airship was operating on hydrogen as opposed to the far safer helium, was responsible for the explosion.
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 Hindenburg Crash Site, Lakehurst, New Jersey
The Hindenburg, for those who don't know, was the largest zeppelin ever in America -- a hydrogen gas-filled, metal-framed airship.
Where the Hindenburg crashed is now a vast, empty expanse of crumbled asphalt mixed with occasional scrubby weeds.
The Hindenburg is obviously a disaster that's run its course, a little blip in our memory CD that's slowly being error-corrected out of existence.
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Hindenburg was a rigid airship built by a firm in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
The Hindenburg was kept overhead by 200,000 cubic meters of hydrogen in 16 cells.
NJ The Hindenburg was destroyed by the fire caused by the invisible gas and 35
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hindenburg Line
The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences in northeastern France during World War I.
The decision to build the line was made by Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff during the final stages of the First Battle of the Somme.
The Hindenburg Line was built across a salient in the German front, so that by withdrawing to these fortifications the German army was actually shortening their front.
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 The UnMuseum - Hindenburg
The Hindenburg was nearly the size of the Titanic.
As the Hindenburg got within 700 feet of the mast, the engines were reversed, bringing the ship to a stop.
The flames were first visible towards the tail of the ship, then within seconds the hydrogen in the gas bags caught on and the whole aft of the craft was engulfed in a mass of flame and smoke that towered hundreds of feet into the sky.
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 Great Moments in Science - Hindenburg & Hydrogen
The answer was settled in favour of the aeroplanes in 1937, when the enormous Nazi hydrogen-filled airship, the Hindenburg, slowly maneuvered in to dock at a 50-metre high mast at the Lakehurst Air Base, in New Jersey.
As the Hindenburg came in to Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, there was a storm brewing, and so there was much static electricity in the air - which charged up the aircraft.
In the Hindenburg disaster, as soon as the hydrogen bladders were opened by the flames, the hydrogen inside would have escaped up and away from the burning airship - and it would not have not contributed to the ensuing fire.
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 Hindenburg - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Hindenburg is most notable for having been attacked by a gigantic whale and starting a large scale (about 10:3) nuclear war.
In course to Germany the Hindenburg was struck on the east side of the ship by a gigantic whale.
They were faced with a decision to flee on the ninja boat, or to stay on the Hindenburg and counter-counter-attack as the whale was swimming in for it's second counter-attack.
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 Paul von Hindenburg — Infoplease.com
After the overthrow of the emperor (November), Hindenburg and the army swore an oath of allegiance to the republican government.
Although Hindenburg was to be tried as a war criminal under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the special German court at Leipzig never even indicted him.
After the death of the German president Freidrich Ebert in 1925, Hindenburg was persuaded to run for the office by a coalition of nationalists, Prussian Junkers, and other conservative groups.
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 Airship the "Hindenburg" - Associated Content
The Hindenburg started its decent, the engines were put into reverse and the Hindenburg eased onto her landing wheel, then the nose was locked safely into place.
During a routine landing operation, the airship Hindenburg just burst into flames at the altitude of around 200 feet and was burned to destruction by the hydrogen fire originating near the stern.
The Hindenburg was once thought to be the wave of the future, but now it's just the thing of the past.
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 Hindenburg over Bonavista
After Captain Pruss had taken the Hindenburg over Manhattan, with a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty, the airship was nearly over Lakehurst when they received a weather report which stated that winds were up to 25 knots.
Since the Hindenburg was a little tail heavy, 1,320 pounds (600 kg) of ballast water was dropped (often, unwary onlookers who had ventured too close to an approaching airship would get drenched from ballast water).
Since the Hindenburg was still 300 feet (roughly equal to 30 stories) in the air when it caught fire, many of these passengers did not survive the fall.
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 The Hindenburg Disaster
Analysis of the evidence presented, clearly shows the Hindenburg to have exploded due to a static discharge build up, causing the outer hull to become ignited in flames.
We can say with the utmost certainly that the Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937 was caused by the very fabric of the great vessel itself.
In conclusion, we know now that the Hindenburg exploded due to a static discharge build up, causing the outer hull to become ignited in flames.
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 Paul von Hindenburg
On the outbreak of the First World War Hindenburg was recalled to the German Army and after being sent to the Eastern Front won decisive victories over the Russians at Tannenberg (1914) and the Masaurian Lakes (1915).
With the support of senior military officers and right-wing industrialists, Hindenburg and his quartermaster general, Erich von Ludendorff, formed what became known as the Third Supreme Command.
Paul von Hindenburg was so popular with the German people that Hitler was unable to overthrow constitutional government until his death in 1934.
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 Paul Hindenburg
German Field Marshal Paul Hindenburg first fought at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866 and in the Franco-Prussian War, ultimately rising to the rank of General.
In 1911 he retired from the German Army, but was recalled to active duty at the beginning of World War I. He led the German army to decisive victories on the Eastern Front.
Hindenburg was President of the Weimar Republic of Germany from 1925 to 1934.
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 What is the Hindenburg Disaster?
The LZ129 Hindenburg was an astonishing 803.8 feet (245 meters) in length, and 135.1 feet (41 meters) in girth, roughly the size of the ocean-going Titanic.
Hindenburg’s three-day transatlantic crossing that began on Monday evening, 3 May 1936 was uneventful but for bad weather that seemed to dog the journey.
Many passengers and crew of the Hindenburg frantically leapt for their lives through broken windows, some attempting to slide down mooring ropes as the unbelievable catastrophe unfolded.
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 Stone's Fence
Perhaps it was seeing the picture while listening to the old vinyl recording of the radio broadcast that locked the scene forever in my mind.
As a young Christian, I remember being thrilled to hear a dynamic campus speaker declare that he had come to Christ because he was compelled by "the evidence" and was "overwhelmingly intellectually convinced" that Christianity was true, and therefore he put his faith in Christ.
By avoiding the extreme dogmatism and arrogant certitude of the Hindenburg approach, we also avoid the danger of the fall to which pride always leads.
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 "Radio Days - Hindenburg"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The mighty German passenger Zeppelin, Hindenburg, was attempting a mooring.
The Hindenburg was one of Nazi Germany's finest airships.
It was supposed to reflect the greatness of the German Reich and its leader, Adolf Hitler.
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