Great airships, like the Graf Zeppelin, were used very successfully to carry people and things. With some 650 flights to her credit, the Graf Zeppelin flew more than 620,000 miles and carried over 18,000 passengers!



Nearly twice the size of the Graf Zeppelin was the Hindenburg, the largest airship ever built. At 804 feet long, it was almost as big as three football fields. It needed over 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen to fly! The Hindenburg had a terrible fire, and now hydrogen isn't used in airships anymore.