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Workers of the Zeppellin factory in Friedrichshafen in Germany.
All aboard
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Passengers aboard the Hindenburg on Aug. 11, 1936, during an Atlantic flight.
Pre-flight preparations
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The Hindenburg on Aug. 9, 1936, as it was taken out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen before leaving for New York.
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Under construction
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This photo from 1935 shows The Hindenburg under construction at Friedrichshafen.
Future of travel?
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The first flight of the airship Hindenburg, LZ 129, on March 4, 1936. A round trip to New Jersey a few months later took just over four and a half days.
Denise Chow was the assistant managing editor at Live Science before moving to NBC News as a science reporter, where she focuses on general science and climate change. Before joining the Live Science team in 2013, she spent two years as a staff writer for Space.com, writing about rocket launches and covering NASA's final three space shuttle missions. A Canadian transplant, Denise has a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto, and a master's degree in journalism from New York University.
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