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Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei: Number built: 2 ... Capacity: ca. 50 passengers for LZ-129 (later upgraded to 72), 40 passengers for LZ-130; Length: 245.3 m (803 ft 10 in)
LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. [3] It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH) on the shores of Lake ...
Regular passenger flights with up to seven passengers and 4 crew from the International air exhibition in Frankfurt/Main from 7 August until the end of October 1909. Total 74 flights. Put out of service after flying into the sea on 1910-05-16; Power plant: two 81 kW (110 PS) N.A.G.-Motors, each driving a four-bladed airprop; max speed: 51 km/h
The LZ 1 (LZ for Luftschiff Zeppelin, or "Zeppelin Airship") was 128 metres (420 ft) long with a hydrogen capacity of 11,000 m 3 (400,000 cu ft), was driven by two 15 horsepower (11 kW) Daimler engines each driving a pair of propellers mounted either side of the envelope via bevel gears and a driveshaft, and was controlled in pitch by moving a ...
The LZ 128 was similar to the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, but shorter and wider. Designed as a passenger airship to carry 25 passengers and 10 tons of cargo, the LZ 128 was cancelled in 1930 due to the crash of the R101, the dangers of hydrogen being made clear. LZ 129 Hindenburg (first Hindenburg class airship) civilian 4 March 1936
Highest passenger capacity airliner until the Airbus A380 Antonov An-124: ... Zeppelin LZ 1: 1900 11,300 m 3 [9] 128 m: German experimental prototype R38 (US: ZR-2)
The first successful flight of a rigid airship, Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ1, was in Germany in 1900. [2] Between 1910 and 1914, Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft transported thousands of passengers by airship. [3] [4] During World War I, Germany used airships to bomb London and other strategic targets. [5]
The Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #130; Registration: D-LZ 130) was the last of the German rigid airships built by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the period between the World Wars, the second and final ship of the Hindenburg class, and the second zeppelin to carry the name "Graf Zeppelin" (after the LZ 127) and thus often referred to as Graf Zeppelin II.