Comments on: Hindenburg Flight Operations and Procedures

By: Esson McDowell

Esson McDowell — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:03:08 +0000

In reply to Dan Grossman. Oh ok and you’re right their story is fascinating.

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:36:29 +0000

I do have references among the blog posts, rather than the pages, but there is a reason I haven’t covered them in detail in the pages. 🙂

(And it’s not any lack of interest! Their story is fascinating.)

By: Esson McDowell

Esson McDowell — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 18:24:27 +0000

Dan Grossman you need to have a British airship section on this website and needs to include the R100 and the R101.

By: Esson McDowell

Esson McDowell — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:47:08 +0000

In reply to Dan Grossman. Oh ok

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 23:36:05 +0000

In reply to Esson McDowell. With a device that fitted into a cup at the top of the mast.

By: Esson McDowell

Esson McDowell — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:50:04 +0000

How would the Hindenburg attach to mooring mast when the ground crew pulled the ship in.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 19 May 2020 10:41:59 +0000

In reply to Stu. I think tickets on the Zeppelins for an Atlantic crossing costs tens of thousands of dollars, considering inflation. As much as I adore them it would be difficult to match the economy and profitability of stuffing a wide body jet with people. But it would seem that rigid airships would combine the best of both worlds between airplanes and ships. The Zeppelin company people were true visionaries.

By: Kirby Lindstrom

Kirby Lindstrom — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:27:38 +0000

I was stationed in Lakehurst, NJ, from 1981 to 1984

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:17:51 +0000

Just to clarify pressure height — for a given volume gas cell, assume it is filled to exactly 1 atmosphere absolute pressure. There is some height where the air pressure is low enough that the gas pressure will burst the cell. To avoid this, each cell had a safety relief valve set to release before this happens, and this altitude where the gas would escape the relief valve was the nominal pressure height. As temperatures and loads and valving changed the weight to carry and the volume of gas available, the effective pressure height would change, and the crew was constantly recalculating this. For hydrogen ships, unplanned valving could be catastrophic, and for helium ships, the loss of gas was a tremendous expense, so it was always carefully monitored.

By: Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 11:20:49 +0000

I was wondering if zeppelins had running lights like ships do and if so where they were located. This information is for someone making a paper model of an airship who wants to add the appropriate lights.

The watch sections you described reminds me of my time on ships in the US Navy.