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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]
The lower deck, "B", contained washrooms, a mess hall for the crew, and a smoking lounge. Long slanted windows ran the length of both decks. The passenger decks were redesigned for Graf Zeppelin; the restaurant was moved to the middle of the quarters and the promenade windows were half a panel lower.
Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik LZ N07‑100 (DLZFN) Steve Fossett (pilot), Hans‑Paul Ströhle 27 Oct 2004 FAI [47] [48] Human-powered: 44.32: 27.54: 0.03 Musculair 2: Holger Rochelt 2 Oct 1985 FAI [49] [50] Ground effect vehicle: See entry under § Watercraft
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.The LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. [1]
While the zeppelin flew invisibly within or above the clouds, the car's observer would hang from a cable below the clouds, and relay navigation and bomb dropping orders. [ 104 ] [ 105 ] It was equipped with a wicker chair, chart table, electric lamp and compass, with telephone line and lightning conductor part of the suspension cable.
Graf Zeppelin's achievements showed that this was technically possible. [78] By the time the two Graf Zeppelins were recycled, they were the last rigid airships in the world, [199] and heavier-than-air long-distance passenger transport, using aircraft like the Focke-Wulf Condor and the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, was already in its ascendancy. [200]
Wreckage of passenger car of Schwaben after the fire. The LZ 10 made its first flight on June 26, 1911 and was put into service three weeks later, on July 16, 1911. It was called the "lucky airship" because it was more successful than any of the previous craft that DELAG had put into service, and was the first commercially successful passenger aircraft in history. [1]
The Maybach Zeppelin was the Maybach company's Repräsentationswagen [i] model from 1928 to 1938. Named for the company's famous production of Zeppelin engines prior to and during World War I , it was an enormous luxury vehicle which weighed approximately 3,000 kg (6,600 lb).