LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It...
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partial model of the airship LZ 129 Hindenburg. The exhibition also includes an original engine nacelle of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin airship and a Maybach...
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Hindenburg-class airship (section LZ 129 Hindenburg)
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin, was never operated on a regular passenger service, and was scrapped in 1940 along with its namesake predecessor, the LZ 127 Graf...
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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled rigid airship which flew from 1928 to 1937. It was designed and built to show that...
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the USS Akron. The Zeppelin Company had proposed LZ 128 in 1929, after the world flight of the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. This ship was to be approximately...
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construction of LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. That revived the company's fortunes and, during the 1930s, the airships Graf Zeppelin, and the even larger LZ 129 Hindenburg...
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with its LZ 127 namesake were both scrapped in April 1940, and their duralumin framework salvaged to build aircraft for the Luftwaffe. The LZ 130 Graf...
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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) (redirect from LZ 126)
New York: Old Dorp Books, 1992. ISBN 978-0-932035-13-4. Provan, John. LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin": The story of an Airship, vol. 1 & vol. 2 (Amazon Kindle...
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I: LZ 6 LZ 7 Deutschland LZ 8 Deutschland II LZ 10 Schwaben LZ 11 Viktoria Luise LZ 13 Hansa LZ 17 Sachsen Following World War I: LZ 120 Bodensee LZ 121...
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and Deutsche Luft Hansa. The LZ Group's capital contribution came primarily from its two airships LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg, the latter...
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List of Zeppelins (redirect from LZ 12 Sachsen)
company based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, numbered their aircraft LZ 1/2/ ..., with LZ standing for "Luftschiff [airship] Zeppelin". Additionally, craft...
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The Zeppelin LZ 1 was the first successful experimental rigid airship. It was first flown from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen...
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Hugo Eckener (category LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin)
Ltd 1977. with chapter: Hugo Eckener and the Graf Zeppelin. Provan, John: LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin" The story of an airship vol.1 Amazon e-book Robinson, Douglas...
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Unbiseptium, an element that has not yet been discovered The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, a dirigible Sonnet 127 by William Shakespeare 127th Street Ensemble was a troupe...
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Clara Adams (category LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin)
Clara Adams (born Clara Grabau; 1884–1971), known as the "first flighter" and the "maiden of maiden flights," was an aircraft passenger and enthusiast...
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Hindenburg disaster (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S. The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying...
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the Interwar period, constructing the largest rigid airship in history, the LZ 129 Hindenburg, lead ship of the Hindenburg class. However, the company's...
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The Zeppelin LZ 4 was a German experimental airship constructed under the direction of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. First flown on 20 June 1908, it made a series...
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HMHS Britannic, and other transportation vessels including the Bismarck, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg. His paintings have been used in many books about...
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August 1929 29 August 1929 First circumnavigation in an airship, aboard LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Lakehurst, New Jersey Pilot Wiley Post and navigator...
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Zeppelin P Class (redirect from Zeppelin LZ 45)
Britain during the war. LZ 47 (LZ 77) and LZ 49 (LZ 79) were deployed to Namur in order to carry out bombing raid on Paris. LZ 49 (LZ 79) bombed Paris on...
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gas is most famous, however, as the buoyancy compensating fuel for the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. Because its density is approximately the same as that of...
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equal to air. Different attempts were made on hydrogen airships: the LZ 127 and LZ 129 to use part of the lifting gas as a propellant without much success...
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airport was the home base for the two largest German airships, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg. In 1938, Frankfurt was a central distribution...
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23 year old test pilot Hanna Reitsch. On 9 September, Greim traveled on LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin to Brazil, arriving in Recife on 12 September. There, together...
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passenger Zeppelins LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, and the U.S. Navy airships USS Los Angeles (ZR-3, ex-LZ 126), USS Akron...
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Dixmude (airship) (redirect from LZ 114)
Dixmude was a Zeppelin airship built for the Imperial German Navy as L 72 (c/n LZ 114) and unfinished at the end of the First World War, when it was given to...
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of the sponsors of the first round-the-world voyage in an airship, the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Germany. His sponsorship was conditional on the trip...
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Zeppelin LZ 104 (construction number, designated L 59 by the German Imperial Navy) and nicknamed Das Afrika-Schiff ("The Africa Ship"), was a World War...
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Ludwig Dürr (category LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin)
Zeppelin. After assisting in the construction of the first zeppelin airship, the LZ 1, he himself began to construct airships and lightweight construction parts...
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