The Hindenburg Disaster

Nobody knew it at the time, but the Hindenberg disaster was the beginning of the end for air travel by blimp. For decades, the rich used blimps to travel to new locales, still somewhat faster than the automobile of that day. But as the airplane–a new air tech–found its wings, old-school blimps no longer held their air. The future was faster, higher and farther. And the beginning of the end happened on this date in 1937.