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...comedy is never far from tragedy: Bruce Conner's short film clips intersperse hilarious scenes of people falling off bicycles with newsreels of the airship Hindenburg burning and stacked bodies in a concentration camp. And tragedy, of course, emanates from Warhol's multiple images of Marilyn Monroe that are so emblematic of the Pop genre. Warhol incorporated tragedy more explicitly using the repeated, silk-screened image of a fatal auto accident in his Orange Car Crash, as if death, too, were a mass-produced consumer good...
Just once, Scott Danneker would like to see a TV documentary or magazine story about his employer that doesn't feature the airship Hindenburg's bursting like a lava-filled egg over Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937. "What would happen if people felt compelled to mention Pan Am Flight 103 every time they talked about airplanes?" he asks. Danneker would rather talk about sleek, soaring dirigibles like the Norge, which in 1926 pinpointed the exact position of the North Pole for the first time, or about the millions of kilometers of uneventful flight the Hindenburg racked up before...
After more than 60 years on the dustheap of aviation history, the Zeppelin is making a comeback--sort of. The fiery death of the Hindenburg put an end to the hydrogen-filled balloon for passenger travel, and even when the lifting gas was replaced by helium, passengers never again trusted the big airships. The last Zeppelin made, the LZ 130, rolled out of the hangar in Friedrichshafen, near the Swiss-German border, in 1938, and it was eventually turned into scrap. At 246-ft. long, the ship that Danneker will pilot, the new Zeppelin NT--for new technology--will disappoint...
...next year. The company aims to carry as much as 30 tons of cargo or 240 passengers. In Berlin a company called CargoLifter launched a high-profile public stock offering on May 30 to fund the building of an 853-ft. colossus--49 ft. longer than the ill-fated Hindenburg. "I've been watching the airship industry for 15 years, and now it's getting very exciting," says Christian Schulthess, who for 20 years was a pilot with Balair-CTA, the charter subsidiary of Swissair. He is now president of Skyship Cruises in Switzerland, which ordered the first Zeppelin. "CargoLifter...
...would be wrong to forget: Hitler came to power in January 1933 by the most legitimate means. His Nationalist Socialist Party won a majority in the parliamentary elections. The aging Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg had no choice but to allow him, at age 43, to form the new government, marking the end of the Weimar Republic. And the beginning of the Third Reich, which, according to Hitler, would last 1,000 years...