A one-way ticket cost $400 in 1936. Adjust for inflation and you’re looking at roughly $9,300 in today’s dollars — and people paid it gladly, because nothing else on earth moved the way the Hindenburg did. Passengers dined on white tablecloths, slept in private cabins, and watched the Atlantic pass beneath them from a glass-walled lounge, all while drifting through the air at a pace that made ocean liners look frantic. It was the most luxurious way to travel anyone had ever invented, and for a few astonishing years, it was also the most famous aircraft in the world.
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