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{{Useful Notes|wppage=Hindenburg disaster}}
[[File:Hindenburg disaster.jpg|thumb|300px]]
{{quote|''[[Oh, the Humanity!|"Oh, the humanity!"]]''
|'''Herbert Morrison''', in a radio broadcast}}
On May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 ''Hindenburg'' was about to land at what was at that time [[w:Lakehurst Maxfield Field|Lakehurst Naval Air Station]] in [[w:Lakehurst, New Jersey|Lakehurst]], [[Joisey|New Jersey]], after a trans-Atlantic flight from Frankfurt, Germany with 70 passengers aboard. The gigantic airship was a zeppelin—a lighter-than-air craft like a blimp, but with a rigid internal frame—and was filled with hydrogen rather than the usual helium.<ref>Helium was only available in the United States at the time, and that country wasn't selling it to any European power.</ref> It was the largest flying machine ever built at 263m in length, about four times the length of a Boeing 747 (and looking especially ''big'' considering since it was usually seen at a much lower altitude in flight), and was used as a commercial craft, like a luxury liner.
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* The Don Simpson-illustrated six-issue "Monster Comics" adaptation of ''[[King Kong]]'' was originally to include a scene wherein Kong, at the top of the Empire State Building, [[Non Sequitur Scene|encounters the Hindenburg flying overhead]]. He is described as becoming "instinctively enraged" by the Swastikas on it ("The symbol of Nazi tyranny!"), and punches it, causing it to crash. Simpson used photos of the actual crash for the panels depicting the Hindenburg's destruction. The scene, totaling two pages, was cut from the sixth and final issue of the comic after it was realized the scene was in poor taste. The deleted scene was included on separate "bonus pages" printed on green paper if you ordered all six issues from Simpson's website.
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* The [[Internet Movie Database]] lists at least five documentary TV shows about the airship.
* ''The Hindenburg'' was a 1975 film about its last flight, with its plot centered around a fictional conspiracy to destroy the airship.
* Polly Perkins' telephoned report on the giant robot attack on New York in ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]'' is clearly based in equal parts on [[The War of the Worlds (radio)|Orson Welles' ''War of the Worlds'' broadcast]] and Herb Morrison's ''Hindenberg'' coverage. There's also mention of the ''Hindenberg III'' in Polly's article on the disappearance of Dr. Vargas.
== Literature ==
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== Music ==
* The ''Hindenburg'' disaster is depicted on the cover of the first [[Led Zeppelin]] album, in an obvious [[Visual Pun]].
== Video Games ==
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