Nestled in the northern boundary of New Jersey's pine barrens is Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, site of one of the most ...

On May 6, 1937 an errant spark turned the hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg into a fireball and sent it crashing to the ground, killing 36 people. News cameras filmed the fiery crash and live radio ...

The Hindenburg disaster became one of the most famous tragedies in aviation history after the massive German airship caught fire above Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. For decades, people believed ...

88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans-Atlantic ...

LAKEHURST, N.J. (WCSC) — The airship Hindenburg burst into flames on this day in 1937 as it attempted to land at the naval air station in Lakehurst, killing more than 30 of the airship’s 97 passengers ...

FILE - In this May 6, 1937 file photo, the German dirigible Hindenburg crashes to earth in flames after exploding at the U.S. Naval Station in Lakehurst, N.J. Doehner was the only person left of the ...

A photo of the Hindenburg on its maiden voyage used on postcards. Photo:Wikimedia Commons" No-one on board the Hindenburg for its first flight on March 4th, 1936 could have imagined the tragedy that ...

Airships, which are best known today for their use as advertising blimps, have long been recognized for their potential as large, low-emissions transportation vessels that can haul huge amounts of ...

In 1936, the Hindenburg – a hydrogen-filled airship also known as a zeppelin or dirigible – had “cruised back and forth over the North Atlantic carrying hundreds of passengers without the slightest ...