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No Quarter: This painting by Ivan Berryman depicts Lt. William Robinson attacking Zeppelin SL-11. It was the first airship brought down over Britain. (Painting by Ivan Berryman, courtesy of Cranston Fine Arts) (HT Airforce Mag)

waybacking:

A set of various photos, showing German Graf Zeppelin in different places of the world (Germany, Switzerland, England, United States, Argentina,Brazilia), 1928-1934.

“In 1932 the Graf Zeppelin began five years of providing regularly scheduled passenger, mail, and freight service between Germany and South America (Brazil). These commercial operations were the airship’s principal function during this period until it was abruptly withdrawn from active service on the day after the loss of the Hindenburg in May 1937 after having made a total of 64 trips to Brazil.” - Wikipedia.

waybacking:

Interiors of German airship Graf Zeppelin.

lostsplendor:

A German Airship Lands, 1930 (via English Russia)

On September 10th, 1930 the airship reached Moscow, circled above the city for two hours and landed on Khodynka Field. Over 3,000 viewers could watch the landing. The airship had 42 crew members, 23 passengers and 21 kg of mail aboard. It took the airship about 26 hours to cover the distance of 2,372 m.

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abject-reptile:

2 Days to Europe poster, 1937. Designed by Jupp Wiertz.

#Nazism/Third Reich , #Zeppelins , #Travel , #Transportation , #Advertising , #Aviation , #Tourism

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bluecollarclassicist:

This was a real thing that I didn’t live get to live through. Why did everyone get to figure out practical things before my lifetime? I wish I could have drank deep in the scary prototype eras.

Stern of Zeppelin airship, most likely LZ-4, on Lake Constance outside Manzell, taken on 4 August 1908, around 6 a.m. LZ-3 had been bought by the German army and redesignated Z1, and the army also showed interest in buying LZ-4 (and presumably redesignate it Z2), but requested a demonstration flight. LZ-4 was launched at 6:22 a.m. on 4 August 1908 from the floating hangar on Lake Constance. After an emergency landing near Stuttgart due to engine failure, the airship was ripped off its mooring and got caught in a tree, where it immediately caught fire and was destroyed in the early morning of 5 August.

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