This is an amazing find by The 78rpm Channel on YouTube: An audio advertisement for the airship Hindenburg in 1937 aimed at Americans who might be interested in attending the World Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin from June 28 to July 3, 1937.

The Zeppelin Company representative explains that airship passengers have never experienced sea sickness, that the Hindenburg’s passenger accommodations had recently been expanded to carry 70 passengers, and that because of the ship’s speed an American businessman who flew roundtrip on Hindenburg could attend the conference and miss only seven working days from his business.

Needless to say, those flights never happened, because Hindenburg was destroyed by fire on May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

(Thanks to Hindenburg scholar Carl Close for bringing this to my attention. Carl has been doing original research about Hindenburg passengers for years and has greatly added to our knowledge of the people who flew on Hindenburg. And thanks to Patrick Russell of Faces of the Hindenburg for identifying the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (DZR) representative as Wolfgang Lambrecht, a former manager with the Hamburg-Amerika steamship line who by 1937 was serving as the DZR’s publicity manager.)

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It is specifically a La Aurora 107 Zeppelin perfecto.

Thanks, Joe! You are too kind.

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Werner, Walter, and their mother survived the crash; Werner’s father and sister did not.

The Doehner family was returning to their home Mexico, where Hermann Doehner was general manager of a German wholesale drug company headquartered in Mexico City. Werner’s older brothers Kurt and Hermann Jr. were not aboard the airship.

Werner Doehner was born on March 14, 1929 in Darmstadt, Germany.

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This new edition includes additional information, some of which has never been previously published or available to the public, including:

• A detailed list of every Hindenburg flight with:
  
  • Verified departure and landing times in local time
  • Flight duration
  • Commander
  • Information about crew and passengers
  • Quantity of post and freight carried
  • Notes about the flight

• A detailed list of the passengers who were booked on Flight 64, the return flight to Germany that never happened, with biographical information

• A weight and loading chart from the official Hindenburg flight log

• Technical details about the ship from a memorandum prepared by a U.S. Navy observer

• A copy of Hindenburg’s official 1937 Application for Landing Rights in the USA, with information about the ship’s proposed operations for 1937

• A detailed list of the crew and passengers on the last flight

Other new facts and information have also been added to the text, and the authors have also corrected the errors that can sometimes creep into a book’s first edition.

Our goal was to create a new edition that would serve as a useful reference book in addition to telling the fascinating story of one of the world’s greatest airships. We hope you enjoy it!

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The book showcases the illustrations of Italian artist Max Pinucci, who has created beautiful and accurate illustrations of the world’s most famous airships along with infographics explaining airship routes, performance, dimensions, and more. I am proud to have worked with Max and others as co-author of this stunningly beautiful book.

The Museum Edition is identical in content to the “Limited Edition” offered in 2015 but with high-quality digital printing.

The Museum Edition is $145 plus $20 shipping in the continental United States.

UPDATE: Unfortunately this edition is now sold out. 

AIRSHIPS: Designed for Greatness features:

• 114 panoramic pages
• Impressively sized at 46,5 cm x 29 cm (18.3″ x 11.5″), and
• 24 accurate and detailed airship profiles (1:400 and 1:700 scale).
• Extensive infographic plates
• Original photographs, renderings, and hand-drawn portraits.
• Imperial and metric measurements, technical specifications, and flight data.
• Bilingual text and captions (English/Italian)

The book includes detailed illustrations and information about the following airships:

• Lebaudy Le Jaune
• Zeppelin LZ 8 Deutschland
• Zeppelin L30 (LZ 62)
• Zeppelin L35 (LZ 80)
• Zeppelin L59 (LZ 104)
• Zeppelin L70 (LZ 114)
• HMA R33 (R33 Class)
• HMA R34 (R33 Class)
• LZ 120 Bodensee
• Dixmude
• ZR-1 USS Shenandoah
• N-1 Norge
• ZR-3 USS Los Angeles
• N-4 Italia
• Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
• HMA R.100
• HMA R.101
• ZR-4 USS Akron
• ZR-5 USS Macon
• V-6 Osoaviakhim
• Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg
• Zeppelin LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin
• Goodyear ZPG-2 Snowbird
• Zeppelin NT 07
• Goodyear NT-07 101 Wingfoot One

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To bring attention to the movement for women’s suffrage, Australian-born Muriel Lilah Matters hired an airship to drop pamphlets over London in 1909 as King Edward VII made his procession through Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament.

Emblazoned with “Votes For Women” on the envelope, and with aeronaut Henry Spencer at the controls and Matters bravely in the basket, the 80-foot airship departed Hendon for Westminster on February 16, 1909.

The underpowered airship was blown off course by adverse winds and never reached Westminster — landing in the branches of a tree in Surrey instead — but Matters achieved her goal of publicity for the cause of women’s suffrage.

On this International Women’s Day, take a moment to listen to this wonderful 1939 BBC interview with the intrepid Muriel Matters.

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This image appears in Hans Rozenkranz’s Graf Zeppelin: Die Geschichte eines abenteuerlichen Lebens (Verlag Ullstein, Berlin: 1931).

Yesterday I posted a photograph of Count Zeppelin with Union officers during the American Civil War.

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