Zeppelin LZ 129 "Hindenburg"

With a length of 245 meters, the Hindenburg was the biggest aircraft ever built in known history. Its first flight took place in March 1936. 14 months later, after many successful Atlantic crossings, it exploded at Lakehurst airport for reasons never fully clarified.

Originally I had just planned to give the original Hindenburg of X-Plane a new paint job. However, I noticed that for historical accuracy I also had to change the geometry of the stabilizers and the positions of the engines and passenger gondolas. I also added the missing control gondola (who can guess how I did it? The fuel tanks/floats were already used for the passenger gondolas ...).

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