LZ 129 Hindenburg by Robinson. Douglas H.,

Soft cover book with colour pictorial cover, 51 pages, illustrated with B/W plates, bibliography.

The author was just 19 years old when he first saw the Hindenburg airship.

“We shuffled through a small door and there was the Zeppelin. It was late afternoon, the workmen had gone home, the giant hangar was almost deserted, the awed voices of the visitors were lost in the cathedral-like vastness, where the steel arches soared upwards to the vaulted roof, a hundred and sixty-four feet above the floor. And what was this monstrous, silvery, rounded bulk filling the huge room, dwarfing the tiny ant-like forms scram-bling about beneath her? Had puny man conceived this gigantic, smoothly-flowing shape, and built it with his feeble hands? A hundred and thirty tons of duralumin and steel and fabric, the day would come when she might effortlessly float off the ground with a load of 65 tons of fuel, fifty passengers, and all the luxuries and comforts they would require for a three-day voyage to the New World.”

This book is the result of a life-long passion for airships and research.