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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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    The Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #130; Registration: D-LZ 130) was the last of the German rigid airships built by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau...
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    R101, and 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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    Hindenburg-class airship (category Zeppelins)
    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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    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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    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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    German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, and two rigid airships, the world-circling LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, and LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, twin to the Hindenburg...
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  • even a lottery; public interest in Zeppelin's activities grew with the success of each flight. In 1908, the Zeppelin LZ 4 was destroyed during a high-profile...
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  • von Zeppelin (born 1896), Countess of Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, a German rigid airship 1928–1937, named after Count Zeppelin LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II...
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  • not built by Zeppelin are not included. The Zeppelin company based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, numbered their aircraft LZ 1/2/ ..., with LZ standing for...
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    engines for the airships LZ 126 (1924) and LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (1928). The media room presents 3D historic photographs of zeppelins. In addition, historical...
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    suitable for intercontinental air passenger service. This airship, the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, was flown for the first time on 18 September 1928. Its introduction...
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    Provan, John. LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin": The story of an Airship, vol. 1 & vol. 2 (Amazon Kindle ebook). Pueblo, Colorado: Luftschiff Zeppelin Collection,...
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    Hugo Eckener (category LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin)
    Yoseloff 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...
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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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    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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    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...
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    project. Accordingly, Zeppelin Lufftschiffbau began construction of the first of a new generation of airships, the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. On 18 September 1928...
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    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 with...
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    The 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps were a set of three airmail postage stamps, each depicting the image of the Graf Zeppelin, issued by the United States Post...
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    Graf Zeppelin site Archived 25 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine "Blue Gas & Hydrogen". Time, 15 October 1928 Use of Blau gas on airship LZ-127 Graf...
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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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    other were specially designed. 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps of the United States LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin Airship Zeppelin Notes Counterfeits are known of these...
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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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    class. On 5 August 1914 the Zeppelin company put forward a proposal to the German Navy Ministry for a design based on LZ 26. This had been started as...
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    used extensively to carry airmail; it was known as Zeppelin mail, or dirigible mail. The German Zeppelins were especially visible in this role, and many countries...
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  • air. Zeppelins often used a different gas mixture of propylene, methane, butane, acetylene (ethyne), butylene and hydrogen. The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin had...
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  • Ch. 2 (3rd ed. 2003) (ISBN 978-1574884487) Geisenheyer, Max. "Mit 'Graf Zeppelin' Um Die Welt: Ein Bild-Buch". Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei G.m.b...
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  • featured pavilions from Latin American countries. The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flew around the world in 21 days. On August 1 of this year the 1929...
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