Front view of airship LZ 129 Hindenburg making landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Ground crew handles the mooring lines. Hindenburg descends. Ground crew handles lines from mooring tower. Hindenburg moored to mooring tower.
USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight over Lakehurst, Naval Air Station, New Jersey. An N2Y bi-plane about to hook onto the aircraft trapeze of the ship during flight operations. Bi-plane approaches, hooks on to trapeze of USS Akron and is pulled up into the airship.
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship arrives in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Spectators lined up near control bridge and cabin of Graf Zeppelin. Letters on airship reads 'GRAF ZEPPELIN'. Damaged port tail fin of Graf Zeppelin and U.S. Navy technicians repairing it inside the dirigible hangar. Interior views of hangar. Framework of port tail fin of Graf Zeppelin, after removal of damaged fabric. Repair workers seated on suspended scaffold.
Spectators walk beside the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship, as ground crewmen maneuver it at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey. Crewmen wave from rear gondola. Men look out from the window of cabin. U.S. Naval Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl looks out from open cabin exit door. Robert Hartman, a newsreel film director exits with a camera around his neck, followed by other assengers, including Lady Drummond Hay and Karl Wiegand. A crowd is gathered around the exit door as passengers step down.
Smoke flare lit by ground crewman at Naval Air Station,Lakehurst,New Jersey. USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) airship, LZ-126, approaches for landing. Cables are dropped from ZR-3 and are seized by ground crewman who run with the lines. Cabin and control bridge touches ground while ground crewmen assist.
Hangar doors open at Lakehurst field in New Jersey. Two small blimp airships and the large German dirigible, LZ-127, Graf Zeppelin, are parked in the hangar.The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), LZ-126, is parked outside the hangar. The small airships are removed to make room for the ZR-3. Then the ZR-3 is rotated by ground crews and moved nose-first into the hangar, next to the LZ-127, Graf Zeppelin. Crowds of visitors fill the hangar,as Hugo Eckener, of the LZ-127,is interviewed. Men at work in the hangar, replacing fabric on the damaged LZ-127. Crowd moves towards LZ-127. Graf Zeppelin airship.Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl jumps from the cabin door of the Graf Zeppelin, disappearing into the crowd. Crewmen aboard the LZ-127 help a U.S. sailor to climb aboard.
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