Wind causing the occupied 700 foot long Airship USS Los Angeles on its nose Mid-Somersault atop the 200 foot Mooring Mast at Lakehurst, NJ, USA - 1926 [2253x3249]
The Hindenburg on fire at the mooring mast of Naval Air Station Lakehurst (May 6, 1937)
Wind caused the occupied 700 foot long Airship USS Los Angeles to perform a Somersault atop the 200 foot Mooring Mast at Lakehurst, NJ, USA - 1926
Wind caused the occupied 700 foot long Airship USS Los Angeles to perform a Somersault atop the 200 foot Mooring Mast at Lakehurst, NJ, USA - 1926
Wind caused the occupied 700 foot long Airship USS Los Angeles to perform a Somersault atop the 200 foot Mooring Mast at Lakehurst, NJ, USA - 1926
Wind causing the occupied 700 foot long Airship USS Los Angeles on its nose Mid-Somersault atop the 200 foot Mooring Mast at Lakehurst, NJ, USA - 1926 [2253x3249]
Wind caused the occupied 700 foot long Airship USS Los Angeles to perform a Somersault atop the 200 foot Mooring Mast at Lakehurst, NJ, USA - 1926
[1280 x 906]USS Macon (ZRS-5) approaching mooring mast at Naval Air Station Moffet Field, Sunnyvale, California, 17 December 1933.
[June 19th, 1921] Members of Parliament visit the Airship R36 at Pulham. Passengers board the airship by climbing the stairs in the mooring mast.
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast, 1930s
[March 31st, 1921] HM Airship R33 moored to a 100ft high mooring mast at Pulham Airship Station.
The crash of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. The airship caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. There were 97 people on board and 36 fatalities (13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and one fatality on the ground)
TIL The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally designed to serve as a mooring mast for Zeppelins and other airships, although it was found that high winds made this impossible and the plan was abandoned en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zep…
the Empire State Building spire was originally designed to be a docking station for blimps (Mooring Mast), but due to docking difficulties (heavy winds) it wasn’t allowed. Although the true purpose of the spire was to just surpass the height of the of the Chrysler Building.
A US Navy K-class airship of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-41 secured to a mooring mast at São Luís, Brazil, 1944.
Passengers Boarding the R-101 on the mooring mast at Cardington, England. The R-101 was one of the rigid airships built in 1929, by the British government in an attempt to develop long-distance air routes within the British Empire.
[March 31st, 1921] HM Airship R33 moored to a 100ft high mooring mast at Pulham Airship Station.
TIL That the people who built the Empire State Building added a 222-foot (68 m) mooring mast on top of it to serve as a docking station for zeppelins, just to make sure it would become the tallest building in the world in 1931 and not the Chrysler Building. listerious.com/facts-abou…
The Empire State Building‘s crowning tower was designed as a Zeppelin airship mooring mast. Amazing, crazy - but true. (1931)
Painting the mast on a mooring without taking it down. Wish me luck!
Helping a friend with his cruising boat, we are going to try to paint the mast in place, on a mooring. Should be comedy, if nothing else. It's Aluminum, paint has been slapped off by clanging halyards for 2 years while she was unattended.
We did a sample area at deck level, and learned 2 things. We have to sand first (duh) and even the tiniest breeze is an absolute disaster.
Currently the plan is to prep and mask first day, then paint top down very early before wind comes up. We made a cardboard collar (picture a cat's cone of shame) to catch drips, we will move it down every foot or so.
For anyone who is worried about our safety, we already replaced all the stays without lowering the mast, so by comparison this is a walk in the park haha
I'll post pics and keep updating as we go. Wish us luck!
It's smoke, and it's in flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity! And now a quick word from T-Mobile, the leader in 5G
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930's [1024x749]
Mooring mast of the Empire State Building restored. 6sqft.com/empire-state-bu…
TDIH: October 5, 1930, British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people. Illustration: R.101 at the mooring mast at Cardington.
TIL in 1929 the Empire State Building added a 222-foot “dirigible mooring mast”, where parked airships could offload passengers to the tip of the tallest building in the world. nytimes.com/2010/09/26/re…
TIL The spire of the Empire State Building in New York was designed as a mooring mast for blimps. After only one blimp docked, the high wind prevented them from ever attempting another docking. airspacemag.com/daily-pla…
JLYK The Empire State Building’s upper tower was originally designed as a mooring mast for airships.
First build, Real skybase test based on Zeppelin LZ-120 and mooring mast. Feedback wanted. Sorry I couldn't post a vid, I'm new here.
I made the interior as period as possible but all my chests and workstations r in the gondola. I added a proper flightdeck and I'm gunna add farms and more rooms inside the balloon. (in the title i meant creative i is big bren)
https://preview.redd.it/b9vwkmhvz3z41.png?width=1359&format=png&auto=webp&s=71589b6bf3fa232d04938f31daafd29f25c16e39
In the 20s and 30s, Dirigibles (blimps) were the future. This led to a functional docking station (mooring mast) being built onto the top of the Empire State Building. Its still there.
TIL the Empire State Building's spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast for Zeppelin airships en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo…
So I logged onto my Aether mod Beta 1.7.3 client with original sounds for the first time in a while and decided to finish this Zeppelin I started last time I played. I'm very proud of it, I even went and built it a mooring mast as it was too big for my old hangar.
TIL that the height of the Empire State Building was increased from 1,050 ft (320m) to 1,250 ft (381m) during construction, claiming the addition would serve as a "mooring mast for dirigibles". In actuality, the height meant it would become the tallest building in the world. nytimes.com/2010/09/26/re…
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930's
The USS Los Angeles ascends uncontrollably from its mooring mast, 1927 [589x744]
Still upset that Birmingham’s ‘mooring mast’ was a publicity stunt and a fraud.
A daredevil construction worker rides on hoisting ball while working on the mooring mast of the Empire State Building during its construction circa 1931
TIL that the Hindenburg airship was said to be so stable that a pen or pencil could be stood on a table without falling. Its launches were so smooth that passengers often missed them, believing that the airship was still docked to its mooring mast. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_…
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930's
Did some deforesting so I can build some Mooring Masts and airships and zeppelins around my base. My cliffside base looks pretty cool without the trees, and does a good job of showing off my airship crash site build.
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930's (x/r/historyporm)
Cannon Bollards of Britain -- "Converted cannons can still be found sticking out of streets and sidewalks around Britain, variously serving as mooring masts, traffic barriers, architecture guards or survey markers. A few even function as the bases of columns holding up dockside structures" 99percentinvisible.org/ar…
I recently found out that my fun fact about Birmingham's zeppelin mooring mast is a lie... it was a publicity stunt.
The Empire State Building is topped by a mooring mast for blimps, which were the latest trend in air travel in 1931. However, only one blimp ever docked at the Empire State Building, on September 16, 1931, before the idea was abandoned because the high winds were too dangerous. np.reddit.com/r/todayilea…
