On November 1, 1928, German pilot Dr Hugo Eckener, the most successful airship commander in history, landed the LZ-127 “Graf Zeppelin” airship in Friedrichshafen, Germany after a 71-hour flight. The ...
It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's ...
Commercial Aviation Postcards [Williamson], NASM.2025.0042, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Scope and Contents "Graf Zeppelin über der Werft." Postcard; German airship LZ 127 ...
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An enormous white zeppelin described as the world’s largest successfully completed its maiden flight on Friday in Japan. The German-made, 75m-long airship wafted into blue skies above the western port ...
It’s perhaps the only bag of airmail ever delivered to the St. George’s Post Office which arrived there by way of the Old Town’s harbour. When the “Graf Zeppelin” passed directly over St. George’s on ...
On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo Megías fulfilled his dream by embarking on the first trip around the world in the Graf Zeppelin. It was not the first time that Megías, King Alfonso XIII ...
Aeroplanes are now the norm for air travel but there was a brief period early in the aeronautical history when airships or dirigibles were believed capable of playing a crucial role in aviation ...
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