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Zeppelin "L 30" seen from the front Right gondola of Zeppelin "L 30". 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 War with 31 reconnaissance flights and 10 bombing runs carrying a total of 23,305 kg of bombs, [1] with the first ones targeting England, and the four final raids ...
One of LZ 1's Daimler NL-1 engines, preserved in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. At its first trial the LZ 1 carried five people, reached an altitude of 410 m (1,350 ft) and flew a distance of 6.0 km (3.7 mi) in 17 minutes, but by then the moveable weight had jammed and one of the engines had failed: the wind then forced an emergency landing.
Captain Ernst A. Lehmann described how during World War I Zeppelins could temporarily remain at the sea surface by loading ballast water into tanks in the gondolas. [4] In 1921 the airships LZ 120 "Bodensee" and LZ 121 "Nordstern" tested the possibility on Lake Constance to use lake water to create ballast. These attempts, however, showed no ...
USSR-1 on a 1933 postage stamp.Here the balloon is shown in low altitude configuration; in the stratosphere the envelope expanded into a nearly perfect sphere.. Auguste Piccard's high-altitude flights of 1930–1932 aroused interest of Soviet Air Forces and Osoaviakhim, the Soviet paramilitary training organization, as well as individual pilots, designers and flight enthusiasts.
Gondola is the general term for the usually-armored ventral casemate-style positions used on many World War II-era military bomber aircraft, especially on German designs, [1] where they were usually known as Bodenlafette, often shortened to Bola [2] (from German Boden, 'floor', + Lafette 'gun carriage or mounting', from French l'affût, gun carriage).
[4] [5] The United States claimed that the project was a worldwide meteorological survey and compared the balloons to "miniature satellites" out of the way of commercial air traffic. [11] Secretary of State John F. Dulles said that after the air force compiles the data, it would be contributed to the International Geophysical Year 1957–58 for ...
Emergency 4: Global Fighters for Life (known as 911: First Responders in North America) is a simulation video game developed by German studio Sixteen Tons Entertainment allowing users to manage emergency services on a variety of accidents and/or accident scenes.
Gondola release mechanism malfunction Scott D. Anderson: United States 1999 Minnesota Air National Guard test pilot Cirrus SR20: Federal Prison Camp, Duluth: Aileron jam during early production flight testing [4] Elsa Andersson: Sweden 1922 Aviator, parachutist: Parachute: Askersund, Sweden Parachute failure Juan Marcos Angelini: Argentina 2018