The Disaster of the Hindenburg: The Last Flight of the Greatest Airship Ever Built
by Shelley Tanaka
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April 1st 1996
(first published 1993)
by Scholastic Paperbacks
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Paperback, 64 pages
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0590457519
(isbn13: 9780590457514)
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A young cabin boy tells the dramatic story of the Hindenburg's tragic final voyage, in a story that includes interesting facts about modern-day bl...more
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the Hindenburg - on its last flight - flew directly over me while I was standing in the water on the New Jersey coast in 1937. Then I saw it getting bigger and coming back.
It had gotten a radio message from Lakehurst that the weather had cleared so this gigantic dirigible made an abrupt turn - that Dr. Hugo Eckner said stressed and snapped a cross wire that cut into the rear hydrogen gas cell making the Zeppelin tail heavy. Captain Ernst Lehman had to constantly shift ballast from th...more
It had gotten a radio message from Lakehurst that the weather had cleared so this gigantic dirigible made an abrupt turn - that Dr. Hugo Eckner said stressed and snapped a cross wire that cut into the rear hydrogen gas cell making the Zeppelin tail heavy. Captain Ernst Lehman had to constantly shift ballast from th...more
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