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Can we marvel at the Hindenburg for a moment? (Colourized interior photos inside!)

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Khalifa Jayy

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First off, "oh the humanity! / oh, the huge manattee!" OK, got that out of the way.

Look at how damn massive this thing was! Remember, this thing was flying in the 1930s!

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And some shots of the interior.

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Swagggggggg. Surprisingly modern aesthetic! Can we make these a "thing" again?

Video of it flying around as well as some crash footage. It looks... ominous, to say the least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWHbpMVQ1U

Here is the aftermath.
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And apparently, there is a company trying to bring these back?

http://www.gizmag.com/aeros-gets-faa-approval-for-testing/28970/

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Still attached to tethers, the Aeroscraft prototype lifts a short way into the sky as pre-flight testing continues on the ground-breaking airship (Photo: Aeros)
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After a 70-year absence, it appears that a new rigid frame airship will soon be taking to the skies over California. Aeros Corporation, a company based near San Diego, has received experimental airworthiness certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to begin flight testing the Aeroscraft airship, and it appears that the company has wasted no time getting started.

Aeros has provided these photographs of the Aeroscraft airship outside undergoing tethered testing on Saturday, September 7, 2013, and they clearly show the airship off the ground and under control. The large bag structures under airship are landing pads, a type of inflated hovercraft skirt that allow the airship to rest on the ground – or water, or ice – without wheels.
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Crazy!
 
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ymmv

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This must be the business class section where you could do some work. There's even a typewriter if you wanted to write a letter - or more likely where a secretary could write letters.
 
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Random Painted HIghway

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Cool pics, I never had a concept of what the interior looked like. Nor an appreciation for how large that thing was. I would take a transatlantic flight once just for the spectacle of it.
 
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RedTurbo

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I love colorized photos. They feel so much more real than black and white.

On a side note, this thing was really dangerous. It's like the designers never thought it would be a bad idea. :/
 
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Blues1990

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I'm shocked that interior photos, especially ones that are in colour, have survived all these years. It's pretty eerie, to say the least.
 
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Khalifa Jayy

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teruterubozu said:
Really tacky. Those walls and ceilings look extremely flammable too.
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For the 1930s? You're crazy bruh. You have to remember that the furniture, furnishings, and on-board materials had to be lightweight and decently sturdy. The fact that they even had some stuff in there that slightly resembled "upscale/posh" is a feat in itself!
 
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RedTurbo said:
On a side note, this thing was really dangerous. It's like the designers never thought it would be a bad idea. :/
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Well, the US didn't export Helium to Germany at this point due to the whole Nazi shenanigans. So they had to use Hydrogen instead.
 
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teruterubozu

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Khalifa Jayy said:
For the 1930s? You're crazy bruh. You have to remember that the furniture, furnishings, and on-board materials had to be lightweight and decently sturdy. The fact that they even had some stuff in there that slightly resembled "upscale/posh" is a feat in itself!
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Yeah well, clearly it was a design fail.
 
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temp

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Irminsul said:
Well, the US didn't export Helium to Germany at this point due to the whole Nazi shenanigans. So they had to use Hydrogen instead.
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Apparently sale of helium to foreign countries had been banned since the Helium Control Act of 1927, and it had nothing to do with Nazism.
 
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AMUSIX

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It should be noted that the actual passenger/functional portion of the ship wasn't that much bigger than those planes, as it only carried about 100 people.

Also from the interior:
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stufte

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AMUSIX said:
It should be noted that the actual passenger/functional portion of the ship wasn't that much bigger than those planes, as it only carried about 100 people.

Also from the interior:
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I did nazi that comin.

Seriously though, I don't think I've ever seen photos of the interior, so this thread is fascinating!
 
Indrid Cold1

Indrid Cold1

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Just astounding that there was a smoking room aboard! A smoking room on an airship inflated with over 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen. Crazy.
 
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DopeToast

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So I guess I didn't know anything about the Hindenburg other than that it crashed and burned and the "Oh the humanity!" radio broadcast. That thing is fucking huge! And the interior looks dope as fuck.
 
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Irminsul

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Khalifa Jayy said:
Yet the very same US allowed this ship to come Transatlantic from Nazi Germany into the US.

What...?
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temp said:
Apparently sale of helium to foreign countries had been banned since the Helium Control Act of 1927, and it had nothing to do with Nazism.
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Hm, I thought I read once that it did have something to do with Nazi Germany, but apparently not so.

Also, to the point of "allowing it to come to the US", well, some Western countries are sanctioning Russia, not cancelling all flights from and to the country.
 
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Laekon

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You would think there would be a tourist trip angle to bring them back to use. Instead of riding a train through the mountains the view would be even better from a air ship. I could imagine a flight down the Rockies or from Vancouver to Juneau.

I go to a trade show every year in Friedrichshafen Germany that's held in old zeppelin hangers. The town is all about zeppelins as there is a museum and their seems to be modern ones flying every day. Great food, beer, and wine in the Bodensee.
 
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Timedog

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I'm not sure why you guys think it looks modern. It looks like all the stuff my friend who sells vintage furniture peddles.
 
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Khalifa Jayy

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thezerofire said:
These are the hangars the new ones are being built in in my hometown. Always loved driving by them.



With original blimps:


With new blimps:
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That bottom one looks so dope. I could totally see Daft Punk arriving to a concert in one of these groovy machines.
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I'm not sure why you guys think it looks modern. It looks like all the stuff my friend who sells vintage furniture peddles.
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Because it's 19-freaking-30 dude. It looks 70's vintage to us, but this was 40 years prior.
 
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Leynos

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Wow, I never had an appreciation for how massive she was. These are the first photos that I've seen of the interior, and find it fascinating.
 
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