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Projekt LZ 129 - Notes on the passenger Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg: “Luftschiff Hoch!”
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Saturday, December 29, 2012. Four years ago when I began work on “ Faces of the Hindenburg. 8221;, my immediate challenge was to pull together all of the various bits and pieces of information that I had managed to gather over the years about those who flew on the LZ 129. Last voyage during the first week of May in 1937. “Faces” was, of course, never meant to be a comprehensive history of the. My own process will likely be far less methodical than that of the. Design and history as it happens to occur to...
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Projekt LZ 129 - Notes on the passenger Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg: July 2015
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Emil August Conrad Hoff, 1893-1979 (Part I). In Part I, I examine Emil Hoff’s military career, during which he flew with one of Germany’s top airship commanders throughout much of World War I. I have taken the liberty of expanding the scope of the article to include additional information about German Naval Airship Division activities connected to Hoff’s story.). The equivalent of the US Navy’s signalman) and was serving aboard the Deutschland. Class battleship SMS Pommern.
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Projekt LZ 129 - Notes on the passenger Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg: April 2014
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Friday, April 11, 2014. 8220;Alle Motoren, Marsch voraus! The command comes, and since I'm on watch I go into my gondola. Soon afterward comes the long-awaited order, "Airship march! The ship is brought about so that it is facing into the wind. The passengers are all aboard, and an S.A. band plays a spirited march. Suddenly the ground is dropping away beneath us and the inevitable "Muss I Denn Zum Städtele Hinaus" plays. We're on our way. Thus began a typical Hindenburg. A minimum of 15 mechanics were ca...
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Projekt LZ 129 - Notes on the passenger Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg: March 2013
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Before the Beginning…. By Patrick Russell and Dennis Kromm. As we know it wasn’t even a gleam in Hugo Eckener’s eye when Major H. R. Harmon, the military attaché at the United States Embassy in London, wrote a report, dated January 31, 1929 and enclosed an article from The Observer newspaper of January 20th describing the new airship that was being designed by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen, Germany. At that point, the LZ 127. Crowds gather to watch the landing of th...
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Projekt LZ 129 - Notes on the passenger Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg: January 2015
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Monday, January 19, 2015. The Hindenburg’s Seventh North American Flight. This piqued my interest, and I began to research this particular Hindenburg flight to see what else I could find out about it. As it turns out, there were a number of notable bits and pieces of information to be learned. So I thought that it might be interesting to try and chronicle this, one of the Hindenburg’s lesser-known flights. On August 16, 1936,. Was in her hangar at Rhein-Main airfield. As no civilian airship port had yet ...
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Faces of the Hindenburg: Philip Mangone
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Faces of the Hindenburg. Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Hometown: New York, NY. Location at time of fire: Passenger decks. Philip M. Mangone was born in southern Italy on November 29th,1884. He came from seven generations of tailors, and his father, Francesco Mangano, had a successful business designing dresses for the wealthy, often taking his whole staff around the country and staying at the homes of the people for whom they were doing work. Mangone, along with 35 other passengers, boarded the. Either way...
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Projekt LZ 129 - Notes on the passenger Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg: Emil August Conrad Hoff, 1893-1979 (Part I)
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Emil August Conrad Hoff, 1893-1979 (Part I). In Part I, I examine Emil Hoff’s military career, during which he flew with one of Germany’s top airship commanders throughout much of World War I. I have taken the liberty of expanding the scope of the article to include additional information about German Naval Airship Division activities connected to Hoff’s story.). The equivalent of the US Navy’s signalman) and was serving aboard the Deutschland. Class battleship SMS Pommern.