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  2. Hindenburg-class airship - Wikipedia

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    Construction resumed in 1935. The keel of the second ship, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin was laid on June 23, 1936, and the cells were inflated with hydrogen on August 15, 1938. As the second Zeppelin to carry the name Graf Zeppelin (after the LZ 127), it is often referred to as Graf Zeppelin II.

  3. List of Zeppelins - Wikipedia

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    Known simply as Graf Zeppelin (no numeral) as the original Graf Zeppelin had been retired. LZ 131 not finished Version of the Hindenburg-class airship extended by 18 m (59 ft) to 263 m (863 ft) for around 80 passengers. Only a few frame rings were constructed before it was scrapped in May 1940. LZ 132 Project abandoned

  4. Zeppelin - Wikipedia

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    A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ⓘ) who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874 [1] and developed in detail in 1893. [2]

  5. LZ 129 Hindenburg - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. 5 sunken World War I ships at bottom of Texas river revealed ...

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    Even in the decades after World War I, putting ships out to pasture on the Neches was common practice, the man said. "You will see old sunken barges that 50, 60 years were parked out there, and ...

  7. List of current airships in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Spirit of Goodyear, one of the iconic Goodyear Blimps. This is a list of airships with a current unexpired Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) [1] registration.. In 2021, Reader's Digest said that "consensus is that there are about 25 blimps still in existence and only about half of them are still in use for advertising purposes". [2]

  8. Texas drought exposes resting place of five sunken World War ...

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    A man who grew up on the Neches River was searching the low water near Beaumont when he found five sunken ships. Texas drought exposes resting place of five sunken World War I ships in Neches ...

  9. Airship - Wikipedia

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    A modern airship, Zeppelin NT D-LZZF in 2010 The LZ 129 Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built and was destroyed in 1937. Dirigible airships compared with related aerostats, from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1890–1907