Airships: life, death and resurrection.

Esprit de Corps | March 1, 2003| | Copyright

It had been a long day for radio reporter Herb Morrison of WLS Chicago as the Hindenburg nosed towards the mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey. "The back motors of the ship are holding it just enough to...." There was a terrible pause and a plea. "It's burst into flame! Get out of the way! Get this Charlie! Get out of the way, please! ... flames are 500 feet into the sky ... Oh the humanity!"

Although that rainy evening in 1937 would mark the death of the airship era, the world has been haunted by a strange cycle of attempts at resurrecting this type of ...

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