Aerial views from bi-wing aircraft of two zeppelins at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. The zeppelin USS Los Angeles (LZ-126) is moored. The German zeppelin, Hindenburg (LZ-129) maneuvers for a landing and is seen docked at airship mooring tower.
Interiors of airship LZ 129 Hindenburg while moored at Lakehurst Naval Air Station. In the reading and writing room, the airship's Captain Ernst Lehman answers questions from an interviewer about their flight to Frankfurt, Germany and future flights planned for the Hindenburg. View of dining room with chairs and tables and open window. In a staged scene, two men look out the observation windows and talk of seeing America outside. A man walks up staircase from B-deck. A little girl is seated on a dining room chair at the observation windows. She smiles, gets up, and demonstrates that the chair is so light that she can pick it up with one hand.
The German rigid airship Hindenburg on its final flight. Views of the airship flying over Manhattan Island, New York City. Swastika symbol visible on the airship's tail section. The airship descending for landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Views of the passengers in the windows waving to the onlookers on the ground. Explosion and massive fire and smoke consumes the airship. It crashes to the ground in flames and collapses. Rescuers in the foreground run toward the burning wreckage.
Unmast and take-off operations of a U.S. Navy N-Class Blimp at Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. Ground handling officer directs the airship while unmasting. Pilot gets the take- off signal. Tractor drivers carry away the mast from the take off zone. Nose handling lines are connected to mules (utility vehicles). Nose is unmasted from the mast. Mules release the handling lines. The airship gets airborne.
Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg approaches in the far background. Hindenburg makes landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Hindenburg stabilized by the ground crewmen holding lines fastened to the airship. Cable attached to nose of the airship is wound onto mooring tower. Men on tower secure Hindenburg's cable to mooring tower.
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.
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