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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    World War 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...
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  • company based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, numbered their aircraft LZ 1/2/ ..., with LZ standing for "Luftschiff [airship] Zeppelin". Additionally, craft...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Hindenburg disaster (category LZ 129 Hindenburg)
    Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying...
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  • 1931 in Iceland. Monarch - Kristján X Prime Minister – Tryggvi Þórhallsson LZ 127 Graf was a German rigid commercial passenger airship known for being the...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Zeppelin LZ 54, given the military tactical designation L 19, was a Zeppelin of the Imperial German Navy. While returning from her first bombing raid on...
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    The Imperial German Navy Zeppelin LZ 29 (Z X) was an M-class World War I Zeppelin. The airship participated in two attacks on Calais and Paris, dropping...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • (born 1896), Countess of Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, a German rigid airship 1928–1937, named after Count Zeppelin LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, the second...
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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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