Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Hindenburg

Today marks the 71st anniversary of a most inauspicious event in aviation history-The crash of the German airship Hindenburg. If you're looking to find out more information about this famous disaster you need look no further than the Web.

Here are a few sites about the Hindenburg Disaster worth checking out:

• The Zeppelin - Learn more about Zeppelins, the class of airships the Hindenburg belonged to from The U.S. Centennial Of Flight Commission.


• Internet Archive: Hindenburg Disaster With Sound - Here you can view actual newsreel footage of the disaster.
  
• Eyewitness: Herb Morrison - Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 - Read excerpts from the famous radio broadcast and listen to portions rarely heard, at this National Archives site.
  
• The Hindenburg Disaster - The Explosion of the Hindenburg Dirigible - This article from About.com is a good place to learn about the different theories proposed to account for the disaster.

Have you visited a site about the Hindenburg that you'd like to see listed here? Just mention it in the Comments section!