Friday, June 4, 2021

August 8, 1936: The airship Hindenburg floats past the Empire State Building in New York.

 


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  1. This event is the openning of G. Gordon Liddy's book "When I Was a Kid This Was a Free Country." Good read. RIP.

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  2. It faired better than the B-25 did in 1945.

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    1. But not so much the next year at Lakehurst NAS....

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  3. I've read that the building's spire was originally intended as a dirigible airship docking station with passenger boarding on the 101st floor.

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    1. That escape route would have worked great for King Kong.

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  4. My dad was a kid on the farm then and this was the pinnacle of aviation. Eight years later he was flying a P-47 in Europe.

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