Zeppelin - Cigars of the air
Visit my German bookshop for Christmas shopping! Based on a tv-movie about the airship "Hindenburg" and the disaster over Lakehurst my interest about zeppelins and airships arised. This Zeppelin site should offer you some interesting sites to this subject. If you have any suggestions or criticism to this page please mail me.I had to close my forum and my linklist because I just got to much Spam. Sorry, but I have not enough time to delete all that and will not start again before I did not found a spam safe / free solution.
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Contents:
- Luftschiff Hindenburg
- Zeppelin/Airship - History
- Airships today
- Zeppelinmuseum
- Private Zeppelin-Pages
- Dates and figures
- Literatur about airships, Graf Zeppelin, etc.
Book Recommendation: The Phoenix: A Novel About the Hindenburg by Henning Boetius, John Cullen
Luftschiff Hindenburg
- www.luftschiff.de
- Hindenburg - LZ 129
- Two famous voyages of Zeppelin Airships - DIE WELTREISE DES LZ 127
- Interview with Mr. Butscherder
A hopefully growing general site about airships/zeppelins
History and description of the Hindenburg in English. Really interesting is the comparison of the Hindenburg wit a 747 and the Titanic.
An information page from a German school. Unfortunately, it is just in German! Great, go on kids!
Interview with Mr. Butscherder who worked on a zeppelin
Zeppelin/Airship - History
- Navy Lakehurst Historical Society
- Zeppelins
- The Great Zeppelins
- ZEPPELIN: Rise and fall of a company
- Special Feature: Dirigibles, Airships, Zeppelins and Blimps
- Alexander und Anatol RENNER Flugpioniere aus Graz. In der Anfangszeit der Fliegerei waren es nicht unbedingt immer die Wissenschaftler, die sich mit dieser.
- Luftschiffe von Schütte-Lanz in Mannheim
- U.S. Navy Airship Picture Book
Where did I find something about zeppelins on this page? I don't know any more - just search for it. Otherwise, there is some other information about canadian air aces and heroes
List of the greatest zeppelins German built and the greates dirigibles American and British built.
This is another information page from a school and it describes the rise and fall of the Zeppelin GmbH (company). Very good!
This is an article which originally appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of The Quarterly Journal of The Great War Society. So, it mainly tells you something about airships in the war.
first of these airships flew in 1911
Wonderful pictures. Larry shares with us his experiences of flying in Navy blimps. Fantastique!
Airships today
- An English pottery, has just unearthed a piece of airship and aircraft history, which
has lain forgotten for over seventy years.
The moulds for an airship teapot have been discovered in the stores of a Stoke-on-Trent pottery, Racing Teapots. The discovery was made after the pottery's managing director, Peter Wood, was sorting through old company records and came upon some musty notes and newspaper clippings from the 1920s, about the long distance journeys of the Graf Zeppelin. There is a small note on one of the newspapers, written in pencil, which says, “Shall we make an Airship Teapot?” There is another note which says “Airship in Canada. Get the teapot into production.” Another note reads, “Release the Airship in October, in time for Christmas. Put lustre on the fins, lid, spout and windows. Look at adding transfers...” This note is dated July 1930. The last note says, “Send the ten Airships to Germany as promised. Do not offer these teapots for sale elsewhere (R101)!” This is dated October 1930.
So it was concluded that moulds had existed for an Airship Teapot which was withdrawn from production, following the R101 crash. Peter noted the mould's reference number and after looking for nearly 6 hours, the Airship Teapot master mould was finally located, covered in dust.
Peter decided to try and salvage the mould to make an Airship Teapot. "You can imagine how emotional we all were, at the factory, when the Airship emerged (in one piece) from the kiln; the first teapot from the mould in over 70 years," says Peter.
Racing Teapots' top decorator then applied bright platinum lustre, which contains real silver, as directed by the notes of 1930.
Racing Teapots has now put the Airship Teapot back into production, along with the world's first aeroplane teapot (first made in the 1920s) and a number of other Art Deco designs, which are all transport based. You can see the Airship and other designs by looking at the company's website www.racingteapots.com - New Zeppelin NT presented at aviation fair aero
- Solarluftschiff Lotte
- Cargolifter AG - Zeppelin to carry very heavy weights
- Advanced Technologies
another article from the school in Friedrichshafen
An association founded in 1974 with the purpose: To further the development of Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) flight by providing a forum for discussion of the history and technology of LTA and a resource for LTA researchers, designers and builders. Emphasis is on engineering and technology.
Zeppelinmuseum
- Balloon and airshipmuseum Zepp/allon Airship Plaza in Holland
- Aeronauticum Nordholz
- Zeppelinmuseum Frankfurt
- Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
- Deutsches Museum Luftfahrt
- Portrait of the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen
Information about the Deutsche Luftschiff- und Marinefliegermuseum in Nordholz
A lot of documents and exhibits of the history of airships and flight.
This museum shows a zeppelin exhibition with a 33 meters part of the LZ 129 Hindenburg and an art exhibition.
Part of the German Museum in Munich about flight. Connected to this is an air and space museum in Schleißheim - unfortunately both are just in German.
This page about the opening of the museum and an interview with the director is written from students of the Graf Zeppelin Gymnasium in Friedrichshafen.
Private Zeppelin-Pages
- LTA-Technology - mainly about the Cargolifter AG
- Airship Links
- Belgium Balloon Pages
- Great Airship Stories No. 1
- Jens Luftschiffseiten
- Homepage zur Geschichte der Luftschiffwaffe des Heeres
a comprehensive list of airship sources from Wolfgang Dewenter
the first real Balloon Community with lots of interesting features
Jetta's Zeppelin-Page with just some information at the moment but Jetta says that it will build progessively with lots of new and interesting graphics and stories.
Jens Schenkenberger's Airship-Gallery gives you lots of information about zeppelins, museums, collectibles and some interesting links
A very interesting collection about army airships (and more) from Harry C. Redner now also in English
- Airship and Blimp Resources
- Görch's Zeppelin-Seite
- The Home Page for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
- Zeppelin Library Archive
Great, I like this background! Besides, you can find lots of information concerning zeppelins.
I really like the pictures on this page and everything is in German and English - very good!
This is in my opinion the best page about zeppelins. Here you can find everything what you like to know and besides, there are great pictures! Thanks John!
Information about the first zeppelins, pre-WWI passenger zeppelins, zeppelins at war, the great zeppelins (see above) and the future of zeppelins. Great page with very good pictures and lots of interesting information.
Is there still this little HTML problem? I cannot believe it!
Dates and figures
Technology and equipment of a Zeppelinan interesting page from a school in Friedrichshafen
Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (DELAG) - German Airship Corporation
- 7 airships were built from 1909 to 1913
- 1588 flights
- 172500 kilometers
- 34028 people and 10197 paying passengers
At the end of 1996 three airships were licensed in Germany. The producer of those zeppelins is the northrhine-westfalian company WDL Luftschiffgesellschaft mbH at the airport Essen/Mühlheim. With 60 meters length and 7200 cubicmeters volume the WDL1B is at the moment the biggest flying airship of this kind. WDL airships are flying in Germany, the U.S.A. And Japan.
In this year the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH in Friedrichshafen, a company which is based on Graf Zeppelin, will start a hightech zeppelin with 75 meters length and 8200 cubicmeters volume. This new ship can carry 12 passengers or will be used for science.
To compare: airship LZ1 from 1900 had a volume of 11300 cubicmeters and a length of 128 meters. The 'Hindenburg' LZ 129 had a volume of 217000 cubicmeters and a length of 245 meters. It could carry 200 tonnes.
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Literatur about airships, Graf Zeppelin, The Hindenburg, etc.
- The Hindenburg by Patrick O'Brien
- Hindenburg, 1937 by Cameron Dokey
- Inside the Hindenburg by Mireille Majoor, Ken Marschall (Illustrator)
- American Airship Bases & Facilities by James R. Shock
- Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships : Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg by Harold G. Dick, Douglas H. Robinson (Contributor)
- The Zeppelin in Combat : A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918 by Douglas H. Robinson
- The Zeppelin Reader : Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age of Airships by Robert Hedin (Editor)
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