Word: lakehurst
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Died. Max Pruss, 69, captain of the airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, who never fully recovered from burns suffered as he leaped from the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg when it exploded in Lakehurst, N.J. in 1937 (killing 36 people), but who steadfastly argued to the end that helium-filled dirigibles were the cheapest, safest and most comfortable form of air travel; of pneumonia; in Frankfort, West Germany...
...storm over Ohio in 1925 ; the 785-ft. Akron splashed in the Atlantic in 1933; and her sister ship Macon was ditched in the Pacific in 1935. Then, on May 6, 1937, the biggest dirigible of all, the hydrogen-filled German Hindenburg, blew up and burned at Lakehurst, NJ. For a while the world all but gave up lighter-than-air craft. Later, using its almost limitless supply of nonflammable helium to keep the ships aloft, the U.S. began to concentrate on nonrigid blimps. With their flexible, rubberized skins, they seemed to ride through rough weather far more safely than...