Steam locomotive pulls long passenger train up to dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.Visitors crowded aroung outside the hangar to see the German dirigible, LZ 129, Hindenburg, parked inside the hangar. Crowd enters the gate of the building. Sign overhead reads 'No Packages or Cameras allowed inside hangar'. The visitors are monitored by U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy personnel, as they enter the hangar.
Steam locomotive pulls long passenger train up to dirigible hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey. Engine of train emits smoke. People leave the train after arrival and walk to side entrance of the hangar, where they queue up to enter and view the dirigible Hindenburg (LZ-129) parked inside.
Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg descending over Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, after traveling from Germany, on its first flight to the United States, May 9, 1936.
Crowd assembled to see German zeppelin airship, LZ-129 Hindenburg, descending to land, upon arrival on its first flight to the United States, at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Mooring tower and U.S. Navy dirigible LZ-126 the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) are seen on the field. A DC-2 aircraft takes off in front of the Hindenburg as it approaches. Ground crew secures the Hindenburg to the Mooring tower. Officers of the Hindenburg look out from the control room.Officials gather underneath the airship. Passengers look out windows of the cabin. A tractor,built into the mooring tower, travels along a track to move the hindenburg, while ground crews hold lines to stabilize the air ship.
The German zeppelin dirigible, Hindenburg, being hangared at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Stern of airship LZ 129 Hindenburg shows huge tail fins. Navy ground crew rotates the Hindenburg on a large circular track, to orient it for hangaring. Hindenburg shows Nazi swastika emblem on it. Ground crew backs the Hindenburg into hangar.
Ground crew mooring airship LZ 129 Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Two ground crewen operate a winch on top of tower to move the Hindenburg close to the mooring tower.They secure it and climb on top of the tower to inspect the fastening. Meanwile, on the ground, large numbers of Navy crewmen hold lines to stabilize the Hindenburg. Underneath the Hindenburg, many men hold lines fastened to the control room gondola. Two women stand watching.
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