Before the airliner, the ultimate in luxury flying was the Hindenburg Zeppelin Airship. Here are it's luxurious appointments in living color.

Rare color photos of the Hindenburg show what luxury air travel was like 80 years ago. ... The Hindenburg, along with its highly successful predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, ...

Between 1931 and 1937 the Graf Zeppelin crossed the South Atlantic 136 times. The trips took about four days in each direction, and a one-way ticket was about $400, which translates to about ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most famous ...

The last time something like this was seen in Los Angeles was 1929, when the Graf Zeppelin dropped in on Westchester’s Mines Air Field before starting its nonstop Pacific crossing during its ...

They could circumnavigate the world, as the Graf Zeppelin did in the summer of 1929, in 21 leisurely days. And, they offered the kind of accommodation that makes even the latest jet airliner seem ...

The Graf Zeppelin landed back in Lakehurst, N.J., the morning of Aug. 29, 1929. Flying time for the around-the-world flight was 12 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes.

Karl Henry von Wiegand, a journalist who was aboard the Graf Zeppelin during its flight over Egypt, described the journey in an article published by the San Francisco Examiner in June 1931.

After completing the first ever transatlantic airship flight in October 1928, the majestic Graf Zeppelin, a 776-foot gleaming dirigible, was greeted with fanfare wherever it flew; its lighter-than ...

Aug. 26, 1929: Tens of thousands showed up at Los Angeles Municipal Airport to witness the arrival from Germany of the Graf Zeppelin, one of several stops on the giant airship's round-the-world tour.

On December 8, 1934, the Graf Zeppelin departed from Germany bound for Brazil at the height of the Christmas season. Aboard the 776-foot-long zeppelin were 19 passengers, holiday mail and a load ...