• Thumbnail for Zeppelin P Class
    Germany, with the loss of the entire 20-man crew. On 8 September 1915 LZ 45 (L 13), commanded by Heinrich Mathy, was the first Zeppelin to bomb central...
    14 KB (1,672 words) - 22:06, 17 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for LZ 129 Hindenburg
    LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class...
    48 KB (5,842 words) - 13:18, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hindenburg-class airship
    ship, 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...
    12 KB (1,565 words) - 20:01, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Ia Drang
    Battle of Ia Drang (redirect from Lz x-ray)
    landing zones (LZs), the first known as LZ X-Ray, followed by LZ Albany, farther north in the Ia Drang Valley. LZ X-Ray involved the 1st Battalion, 7th...
    93 KB (13,061 words) - 21:45, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
    airships. In consequence Los Angeles, which had the Zeppelin works number LZ 126, was built as a passenger airship, although the treaty limitation on the...
    15 KB (1,588 words) - 01:51, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin
    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...
    93 KB (12,947 words) - 21:00, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
    LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It...
    70 KB (7,765 words) - 05:56, 31 October 2024
  • company based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, numbered their aircraft LZ 1/2/ ..., with LZ standing for "Luftschiff [airship] Zeppelin". Additionally, craft...
    73 KB (1,496 words) - 17:28, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ 1
    The Zeppelin LZ 1 was the first successful experimental rigid airship. It was first flown from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen...
    6 KB (701 words) - 02:14, 2 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for LZ 4
    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...
    8 KB (1,145 words) - 10:20, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin
    The Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #130; Registration: D-LZ 130) was the last of the German rigid airships built by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau...
    37 KB (4,543 words) - 12:22, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for LZ 2
    The LZ 2 was a German experimental airship constructed by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and first flown in 1906. It was the true ancestor of later Zeppelin airship...
    4 KB (307 words) - 06:46, 27 December 2022
  • the interwar period, constructing the largest rigid airship in history, the LZ 129 Hindenburg, lead ship of the Hindenburg class. However, the company's...
    23 KB (2,725 words) - 01:34, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ 54
    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...
    26 KB (3,077 words) - 18:05, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dixmude (airship)
    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...
    11 KB (1,232 words) - 08:46, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant
    loaves of bread, an 88 mm Flak gun and accessories, 52 drums of fuel (252 L/45 US gal), 130 men, or 60 stretchers. Some Me 321s were converted to Me 323s...
    21 KB (2,605 words) - 22:42, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ 31
    German Navy Zeppelin LZ 31 (L 6) was an M-class World War I Zeppelin. Throughout the career of the Imperial German Navy Airship LZ 31 took part in 36 reconnaissance...
    6 KB (419 words) - 13:22, 31 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin L 30
    Zeppelin L 30 (redirect from Zeppelin LZ 62)
    Zeppelin "L 30" (factory number "LZ 62") was the first R-class "Super Zeppelin" of the German Empire. It was the most successful airship of the First World...
    19 KB (2,011 words) - 17:59, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for LZ 3
    The Zeppelin LZ 3 was a German experimental airship constructed in Friedrichshafen under the direction of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. It was first flown on...
    6 KB (799 words) - 00:34, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ85
    Zeppelin LZ85 (redirect from Zeppelin LZ 85)
    The LZ 85, tactical number L 45, also known as Zeppelin of Laragne by the French public, was a World War I R-Class zeppelin of the German Navy that carried...
    22 KB (2,388 words) - 12:03, 16 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ 38
    Zeppelin LZ 38 (designated LZ 38) was Zeppelin P Class airship of the German Imperial Army. It was the first to bomb London, United Kingdom. Airship LZ 38 was...
    7 KB (635 words) - 17:12, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI
    tractor engine in the nose. Three R.XIVs were built, serialled R 43/16 to R 45/16, of which R 43/16 was shot down by Capt. Archibald Buchanan Yuille of No...
    23 KB (2,644 words) - 02:27, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for LZ 37
    The airship LZ 37 was a World War I Zeppelin of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). It was the first Zeppelin to be brought down during the...
    9 KB (721 words) - 17:14, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ 95
    Zeppelin LZ 95 (L 48) was a U-class zeppelin of the Imperial German Military. One successful reconnaissance mission. L 48 and its U-class sister Airships...
    6 KB (560 words) - 07:48, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ 120 Bodensee
    LZ 120 Bodensee was a passenger-carrying airship built by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau in 1919 to operate a passenger service between Berlin and Friedrichshafen...
    9 KB (799 words) - 00:05, 24 June 2024
  • Zeppelin LZ 66, Imperial German Navy serial L 23, took part in 51 reconnaissance missions during World War I and on 21 August 1917 it was shot down by...
    7 KB (908 words) - 02:55, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landing Zones 1 and 2
    Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, also known as LZ-1 and LZ-2 respectively, are landing facilities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station used by SpaceX...
    24 KB (1,415 words) - 23:41, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for LZ 61 (L 21)
    The LZ 61 was a World War I German Navy airship, allocated the tactical numbering 'L 21'. It carried out a total of ten raids on England, and 17 reconnaissance...
    11 KB (1,033 words) - 08:19, 17 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin Rammer
    the "flying chainsaw" Related lists List of German aircraft projects, 1939–45 List of rocket aircraft Ford, Roger (2013). Germany's Secret Weapons of World...
    4 KB (295 words) - 03:53, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin LZ 64
    they approached Texel, and at 4:45 a.m. they spotted Brandaris, (the lighthouse on Terschelling), and a few minutes later LZ 64 about 10–15 mi (9–13 nmi;...
    6 KB (488 words) - 19:25, 3 December 2023