It was a blimp. The German's just before WW2 had one called the Hindenburg, a passenger ship, that blew up as it was coming into New Jersey from Germany. You can see film of it. One man died, but it looks like the entire blimp is one big ball of fire.
There were more than one. The one that burned at Lindhurst, New Jersey in 1937 ending commercial dirigible flights was the Hindenburg.
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Albert Santos Dumont
It was a German airship and it carried 97 persons of which 35 died. It was flying to Lakehurst in New Jersey.
The german airship crashed when securing (landing) in New York and burst into flames. All on board were killed. This made the end of the airship era.
Hindenburg
The German dirigible 'Hindenburg' probably carried the most trans-Atlantic passengers. This is the airship that crashed and burned at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Count Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von Zeppelin.
Do you mean the observation balloons? These were called Drakens.also - zeppelins were used for observation at first.
The Airship Hindenburg. It was caught on film & is terrible. It was a German Transatlantic Dirrigible.
The most famous airship known is called The Hindenburg. The Hindenburg was a German passenger airship from the 1930's era. The Hindenburg had a fatal disaster as it tried to dock in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937, killing 36 passengers, 61 crew members and one ground crewman out of the 97 total on board.
Urban Airship was created in 2009.