Panelled Smoking Rooms. Promenade Decks. Unparalled Luxury and Speed. As a Zeppelin Takes to the Sky Over London Once Again, Don't Forget the Fate of Its Great-Grand-Daddy
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PASSENGERS who embarked on the Hindenburg that summer day were more cocooned in luxury than on any airship before or since. The largest flying machine ever built, it glided through the air so smoothly that wineglasses stood untrembling on tables, and so silently that people on board could hear cows mooing in a meadow below.
The Zeppelin, the pride and joy of Nazi Germany, was serenaded by a band as it lifted off from Frankfurt on May 3, 1937, to cross the Atlantic to the U.S. As it gained height, its 36 passengers began to leave the observation deck to make their way to the smoking-room, or to their cabins for a shower before taking their seats in the dining room with its linen-covered tables In the belly of this great whale, at 800ft long the size of an ocean liner, passengers could bask in the belief that this was the safest and the most luxurious method of travelling ever invented. The Hindenburg, festooned with Nazi swastikas, had already made ten round trips to the U.S., travelling at an average 80mph -- the journey took around three days.See the full content of this document
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Panelled Smoking Rooms. Promenade Decks. Unparalled Luxury and Speed. As a Zeppelin Takes to the Sky Over London Once Again, Don't Forget the Fate of Its Great-Grand-Daddy
No expense had been spared, as befitted an airship in which a round trip cost almost [pounds]10,000 at today's prices. The upper deck had promenades on each side, with panoramic windows. On the lower deck were the crew's quarters, bathrooms, the kitchen and a smoking room.
Ah, yes. Smoking rooms. Few, if any, of these well-heeled passengers would have paid much attention to the fact that because America had refused to suppl...See the full content of this document
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