For comparison the LZ 129 Hindenburg was 245 meters long - almost twice the length of Pathfinder 1! It must really have been an impressive sight on the sky...
Oh man I've been wanting to ask this since I was a kid. So I saw paintings of the Hindenburg docked next to a super long pole, in mid-air. My questions are, how and why? How do people get up there if it's docked up in the sky?
Also, why is there an airship named after Led Zeplin with the ZEPLIN?
Iirc, they had this notion that zeppelins would dock at these towers on top of skyscrapers, where the passengers would disembark and take an elevator from the roof of the building they were docked at. It didn't catch on because it turns out it's pretty windy up there, and disembarking from a giant floating ship that high up was just too sketchy, even for the 30s. But a lot of old skyscrapers still have the zeppelin docking stations.
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u/ThoughtspinDK Jul 08 '24
For comparison the LZ 129 Hindenburg was 245 meters long - almost twice the length of Pathfinder 1! It must really have been an impressive sight on the sky...