lin took to the sky (video 1). It's most dramatic
fleet was its flight around the world (video 1). It started in America and it's first
stop was 7,000 miles later in Tokyo, Japan (video 1). It completed the flight
landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey (video 1). It's pilot, Hugo Eckner, became one
of the most famous people in the world (video 1). The Graf Zeppelin began
carrying passengers from Brazil to Germany on a routine basis (video 1). Both
America and Great Britain made a number of rigid airships for different purposes;
none of them would be as big or famous as the Hindenburg (video 1).
To better understand the overall idea of the largest rigid airship ever built,
you must know about the man it was named after. Paul von Hindenburg was
born in Poznan, Poland on to the cadet school in Berlin
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