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Topic: The airship Hindenberg, Design Essay

desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 08-23-2011 08:50 AM

http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors

The passenger accommodations were decorated in the clean, modern design of principal architect Professor Fritz August Breuhaus, and in a major improvement over the unheated Graf Zeppelin, passenger areas on Hindenburg were heated, using forced-air warmed by water from the cooling systems of the forward engines.

Perhaps most surprising, aboard a hydrogen airship, there was also a smoking room on the Hindenburg.

The smoking room was kept at higher than ambient pressure, so that no leaking hydrogen could enter the room, and the smoking room and its associated bar were separated from the rest of the ship by a double-door airlock. One electric lighter was provided, as no open flames were allowed aboard the ship.

The smoking room was painted blue, with dark blue-grey leather furniture, and the walls were decorated with yellow pigskin and illustrations by Otto Arpke depicting the history of lighter-than-air flight from the Montgolfiers’s balloon to the Graf Zeppelin. Along one side of the room was a railing above sealed windows, through which passengers could look down on the ocean or landscape passing below

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linerguy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4289

posted 08-23-2011 01:05 PM

And of course Breuhaus was also the principle architect for most of the First and Second Class interiors of Bremen of '29; the exception being Rudolf Schroeder's Second Class Social Hall, which was outstanding.

-Russ

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 08-23-2011 02:48 PM

Great images. The layout is similar to a mini ocean liner complete w/the promenades on either side. As for the smoking room, I would have thought that the passengers who smoked could have stopped for the short crossing but it was a luxury ship in competition w/ocean liners.

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 08-23-2011 03:24 PM

Interesting that a 1:1 scale reproduction of a good portion of teh Hindenburg's Passenger Facilities has been built and is shown at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen.

Original and reproduction Lounge..

Zeppelin Museum

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Cunard Fan
First Class Passenger
Member # 7530

posted 08-23-2011 07:38 PM

That's the only way to fly IMO.

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