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Published: 2008-04-04 03:12:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 5411; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 1222
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the Hindenburg,Pride of Nazi Germany in luxury transatlantic passenger travel service. unfortunately,due to an embargo of helium by the United States,Germany was forced to use highly inflammable and explosive hydrogen as a lifting gas. the tragic destruction of the largest airship of all time on May 6,1937 at NAS Lakehurst,NJ,spelled the end of large rigid airships to this day.Related content
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Your photography is really impressive, I was looking for pics of the Hindenburg and yours are the best by far.
Mind if I ask what your copyright rules are about your work? I'm in the process of creating a logo for my band and this is the perfect picture.
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if it,ll work for you,go ahead and use it.Β
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I see that I failed to praise your beautiful art and perspective. Β I praise your beautiful art and perspective on both images.
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glad you liked it...
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Pride of Germany, Hitler and Goering hated lighter-than-air and Eckener, her great builder, despised Naziism and all its works. Β He was too famous to imprison and too visible a patriot to meet the fate of Junkers. Β That beautiful creation of peace and ingenuity met her destruction disfigured with Nazi propaganda icons.
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such was the way and circumstances of the time.
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Very fine work - Can I use this picture for educational stuff, e.g. for my lecture notes?
Best Wishes
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not a problem...glad you like it.
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Ah, the Hindenburg. Did you ever see the mythbusters Episode on why it caught fire?
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missed that one,i,m afraid.
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It's really cool, hope you get to see it
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i,m sure they,ll show it again.
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It comes on so few times now, I only see it every wensday night, I wish they'd show it more often...
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i just don,t watch much TV anyway,too busy with other stuff....{flying,modelling,skirt-chasing.......!}
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Ok, umm.. let me ask is this a painting? or a modifed photograph?
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just a digiphoto of a model on an airbrushed cloud/sky background,suspended on very thin nylon monofilament thread,with a bit of careful lighting.
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model now across the pond,and a prized member of a lovely lady,s private collection......
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Airshipgirl liked it too...it,s in her collection now!
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lessons learned The Hard Way.
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thats right. the HARD way!
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knowledge paid for in blood.......a very heavy price tag.
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we,re only human,after all.
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yeah we all make mistakes
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as long as we learn from them,and don,t make the same ones again!
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some people remember all,but learn nothing from it.......
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yeah some do and some don't.
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not enough actually learn and do something about it....!
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Some users get their vides flagged by other users for posting inappropriate content - i.e sex, copyrighted material etc. usually youtube just deletes that particular vid but on some occasions they delete that person's account. But even ppl who just have perfectly harmless vids like mine get them flags because some people think it's funny to get them banned. Anyways it's no big deal but there are some petty minded folk out there.
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i,d never do a thing like that. if i don,t happen to like something on YouTube,i just don,t look at it.
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She was a passenger, her name was Lady Drummond-Hay, she was a British journalist who became the first woman to fly round the world:
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Vid of her here I have uploaded, about the Graf's round the world flight. She became something of a celebrity.
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OK,i saw it. no more SnorkMaiden......?
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That account got deleted, unfortunately. Some busybody must've reported me or something, I don't know. So I had to start all over again and open a new one.
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reported for what? busybodies....! they should be put down at birth!
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With Captain Pruss at the helm she flew superbly well, in the words of a woman who flew on the Graf many times, "zeppelins do not fly, they simply float, riding on the white wings of the wind."
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a woman who flew on the Graf many times? passenger or crew member?
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A big airship like that looks as if it would be easily blown off course by a strong wind. Were they?
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blown off course,and sometimes much worse! several giant rigid airships were torn apart by storms,and lost with crews killed. it happend to a few airships of the US Navy after which they abandoned Zeppelin-type duralumin framed ships and instead used smaller and safer non-rigid blimps until 1961.
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Great Job! Ever Heard of a Game Called 'Crimson Skies'? this would Fit right into that Universe! Stay cool.
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i did look around on their site a few years ago.
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think a Zep might also be Great for Search and Rescue Use? just asking.
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the US Navy used to use some blimps for that job.
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i know. wish i could find a Model of the Macon!
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