Chelsea Handler
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it was really incredible.
It had private cabins, a dining room with fine crockery, two promenades with large observation windows, a bar and a lounge that featured a custom-built Bloutner building.
baby grand piano that was made from aluminum so that it would be a lot lighter.
It was only 350 pounds.
I love this question and I wish I could pull it up.
A Boeing 747 is 231 feet long.
This is four times longer.
It was so expensive to operate, they wanted to attract high-paying customers.
The Orient Express?
Yeah, or the Titanic, which had crazy first-class accommodations.
For the wealthy passengers, the Hindenburg was essentially an airborne luxury hotel.
Graceful, glamorous, and effortlessly refined.
One of my favorite details is that they had a smoking room.
on the Hindenburg, which seems insane because it was filled with hydrogen gas, which is highly explosive.
But the smoking room was like this pressurized room.
The room itself was pressurized so that nothing could leak into it.
And the theory was if there's a hydrogen leak, it'll keep it from entering the smoking room and we'll be fine.