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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Preserves a Home Video of the Graf Zeppelin

Posted on August 14, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (oscars.org) has posted a home video taken of the Graf Zeppelin during the 1929 visit to Los Angeles to their YouTube channel.

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Newly Released Film Shows Different Angle of Hindenburg Disaster

Posted on May 13, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: nbcphiladelphia.com By Vince Lattanzio A rarely seen video showing a different angle of the Hindenburg airship disaster in New Jersey has been released to the public for the first time in 77 years.

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March 1936: First flight of the Hindenburg

Posted on March 21, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

Source: The Engineer – theengineer.co.uk By Stuart Nathan The maiden test flights of the Zeppelin Hindenburg gave no hint of the disaster to come

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The new Gooyear Blimp makes its maiden flight.

Posted on March 17, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

This morning, March 17, 2014, a few minutes before 10:00 AM (EDT), the new Goodyear Blimp took to the air for the first time.

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More Details on Goodyear’s New Blimp

Posted on March 16, 2014 by LighterThanAirSociety

View photos taken at the new Goodyear Blimp’s unveiling and read articles related to the new airship.

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