Camouflage zeppelin in winter
Cutaway of the german zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
The world's most successful zeppelin airship, serving for almost 9 years, and with a cumulative flight time of almost 2 years.
I never get bored of seeing the sheer humongous scale of airships like this that flew nearly one hundred years ago.
Here’s Zeppelin LZ129 Hindenburg at the hangar in Lakehurst, USA in 1936 (the year before the disaster) AP Photo.
USS Shenandoah airship cutaway
Inside a dirigible - circa 1933.
A zeppelin returning to its hangar in 1908
The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst.
Tragedy Of The Hindenburg (1937) :
LZ-126 departing Friedrichshafen, Germany on October 12, 1924 for its flight across the Atlantic.
Machine gun position on the German R-class Zeppelin ‘LZ 63’, 1916-17
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Zeppelin over Istanbul 1930
“Hindenburg”. 1937.
The Hornet, April 22, 1967
Nacht Tibet by Waldemar von Kozak
October, 1934: The vast and intricate framework of zeppelin model LZ 129, under construction at Friedrichshafen, Germany. With a gas capacity of 7,070,000 cubic feet, and christened “Hindenburg,” she became the largest — and ultimately, for all the wrong reasons, the most famous — airship the world has ever seen.