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Wrote End To Dirigible Era Alive-Well

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LAKEHURST. NJ. (AP in the darkening twilight. the diri- glhle age loomed above the pine

I like a vast cloud.

It [hosted towards the flange tower majestically. so ready But the witnesses of its doom, the Judge and the jury. were clone at hand. They would write. and witness. its npitaph.

Louis Lochner. who flew on the Hindenburg on its :naiden Atlantic crossing. said travel on a dirigible was like being hcld aloft by the angels. But May 6. 1937. the angels lost their grip and the Hindenburg crashed in flames. n pyre for 36 persons and a romantic era 0! flight.

The disaster stunned a \H‘l‘ld not yet accustomed to the sight of a torn airliner crumpled in the streets of a great city, an oily seat cushion bobbing on an ocean swell.

Today's air travellers sti’le ouch memories. Another air— liner awaits. They t'l_\ on.

But among the 36 persons who died on the Hindenburg were 13 paying passengers, the first to be killed on a commerv etal dirigible. They were also the last. a milastono and a tombstone.

More than 150 rigid dirizihles had been built before the Hip» denburg. More than half nad either crashed in spectacular peacetime disasters or been ahot down in war. Hundreds d military crew members am oh servers aboard had been killed

ASTONISIIING TRIPS

But the dirigibles also mark- astonishing trips 0! endurance wrossing the North Pole. fly- lng around the world on only four stops. soaring aiott uitl planes tucknd inside.

Proponents felt—and those yet alive still feel 7 the accidents were an inevitable consequrnce of an infant technology Slllrly waa improving all the time . with helium instead of hydro-

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But the horror of the Hinden- burg plctum neared the public memory with an indelible vision of dirigibles. And just two days after it smashed to carth. a German seaplane left the Azores to pioneer a commercial plane route across the North Atlantic. a harbinger of a now age.

Without the Hindi-"lint: nix- uter. alrslllps might .iill hc commonplace

Thirty-slx passengers boarded the Hindenburg at Frankfurt May ll. lKl’l. it “as the first til 13 trips planned that year for & Hindenburg by her on ncra,

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Since going into scn'ice a year before, tho Hindenburg had made 37 crossmgs to \orth and South America. had (11’- ried 3,059 passengers in t‘lt‘guill comfort some 339.000 miles.

For their $400 tare. the It'll" ellers were getting not only a luxurious two or three days alnit but a unique experience. Meals were cooked on board by a continental chet from a lar- der of lobsters. iovtl and roasts The wine list covered a page. There was a lounge and a bar and 7t) staterooms.

On B deck there was a shower replenished by water distilled from the air.

As a precaution, the smoking room had a double door on trance and it was kept under slightly higher air pressure to prevent any stray uhtsps of hy- drogen ironi scoping in, All matches and cigarctte lighters were coniisrated on boarding.

Even though hydrogen on- abled the Hindenburg to lift 16‘1 more thus, the Germans would have prcicrrod to use [WIND] :35. ilclium was a rare ms in that ii didn‘t burn ~i‘arc all“ in that it “as found in cummere cial amounts in but one country in the world. the United States.

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OMINOUS CLOUDS

The Hindenburg iii-w low over New York. The black clouds over Jersey made a regal back drop for tourists who photo- graphed the Hindenburg lrom the Empire State Building. But tho clouds had iooli‘d thc wrath crman. He had predicted partly cloudy {or the day but these “on: thunder clouds.

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Thirteen passenger! did. I. did 22 o! the 61-man crew at one man in the ground crew. But some lived. miraculously.

The us, commerce depart- ment. after lengthy hearings. said most probably it was smile elcctricity built up in the air ship from the thunderstorms. The resultant spark could have ignited leaking hydrogen.

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