#rigid-airships

#rigid-airships

Transatlantic Zeppelins carried passengers in relative luxury between Germany and New York or Rio de Janeiro during the 1920s and 1930s. The airships Graf Zeppelin crossed the Atlantic in two or three days, faster than contemporary ocean liners, but this brief golden era of air travel came to an abrupt end following the Hindenburg disaster in May 1937, when the airship burst into flames and 36 people were killed.