mudwerks:

1944 … zepp over ankor-wat (by x-ray delta one)

 Leydenfrost

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dayalmohamed:

oldblackandwhitephotos:

This is a view of the huge dirigible hangar with doors open at both ends at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company under contract to the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center was to use the hangar for construction and assembly of the nation’s first nuclear stage rocket engine.

Airplanes are on the ground at right, and in the background is San Francisco Bay. The ready-made “factory” structure was erected in 1931-1933, to house the dirigible Macon, which crashed off the California coast in 1935. It has been used by the Navy for blimps and aircraft.

The floor area 1,138 feet by 308 feet, covers over eight acres or enough to hold seven football fields. The height of the hangar is 198 feet, ample for the company to erect the RIET (Reactor-In-Flight Test) stage in an upright position. The program was eventually canceled.

View of the huge dirigible hangar with doors open at both ends at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

tellthebees:

USS Shenandoah, 1923

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supertrainstationh:

Today is the 76th anniversary of the first flight of the LZ-129 Hindenburg, the largest aircraft in human history.

I know I wouldn’t have even been allowed to ride it if I lived back then, shut up.

The last thing Hugo Eckener wanted was for his airships to become flying billboards for the Nazis. He outright denounced the Nazis as criminal thugs well before they came to power and long before it became fashionable or safe for him to do so.

He was even considered a favorite to run against Adolf Hitler.

I say all this just to clarify, I’m not glorifying the Nazis or their authoritarian legacy of fear, violence, and mass murder by commemorating the airship Hindenburg.

More than anything its the fault of the Nazi’s that the Hindenburg was destroyed and rigid airships vanished forever.

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chutesdimages:

The Hindenburg’s Interior: Passenger Decks @airships.net

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rilenious:

Graf Zeppelin

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blech:

A cut-away diagram of the Hindenburg from the Illustrated London News, 1936 (from Ptak Science Books: History of Holes series: Holes in Airships (1919 and 1937)).

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scanzen:

Aerial view from the north west of the Graf Zeppelin above St Paul’s and the River Thames, 1930.

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