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is where the pilots operated.

The rest of the cabins and crew facilities, so forth, were inside the belly of this tube.

I think you can kind of see the observation windows sort of cut into the side there.

They look like gills in the front.

Well, he's in that little gondola.

No, no, no.

It's like a little cabin that's hanging from under there.

And then there were a series of bladders throughout the airship.

filled with the gas.

But there were catwalks and various ways that crew could kind of like maneuver around inside the Zeppelin itself, which is really cool.

And they would get to, you can also see the engines, the propellers off the side here, which were big diesel engines.

And the crew could actually climb out onto those things and perform maintenance while in flight.

So it was a really cool just feat of design and engineering.

Yeah, right?

It's like, do you want a helium balloon for your birthday party or do you want to ride in a fucking balloon?

Do you want to ride in a giant one?

Yeah, come on.

Let's do it.

So we're going to get to the disaster in a second.

But a lot of people forget that the Hindenburg actually made a lot of successful flights before it actually crashed.