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« Reply #72 on: September 22, 2012, 05:46:30 PM »

Theodor Pixis (1831-1907)
Tausend Meter über München, 1890


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Vassily Kuptsov
Dirigible, 1933


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Led Zeppelin Album Cover, 1969



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Horst Naumann
Weimar, 1928


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« Reply #78 on: September 22, 2012, 07:56:04 PM »

Gustaf Oscar Dalström (1893 - 1971)
Night, Chicago World's Fair, 1933


etching on paper plate: 6 x 7 7/8 in (15.1 x 20.1 cm)
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« Reply #79 on: September 24, 2012, 11:30:48 AM »

Parkes, Oscar (OBE)
'The Pride of the German Fleet' : The battleship "Bayern", the first German ship to carry 15-inch guns, surrenders, never having fired her guns in action, 1918


wash on paper, 431 x 368 mm
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View over the bow of a warship, of a large capital warship under way, from the stern port quarter. Another warship is line ahead and an airship is above.


Crosby, F Gordon
Lieutenant Warneford's Great Exploit: The first Zeppelin to be brought down by Allied aircraft, 7th June 1915. The VC was conferred at once on Lieutenant Warneford., 1919


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An aerial view of a British aircraft attacking a Zeppelin. The plane swoops down from above, and the Zeppelin plummets towards the ground in flames, trailing a thick cloud of smoke. Patches of fields and areas of woodland can be seen below.
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« Reply #81 on: September 24, 2012, 11:44:35 AM »

Nancy Exposition, 1909




Ernest Montaut

FIRST INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW, 1909




CLEMENT-BAYARD, 1915

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« Reply #82 on: September 24, 2012, 01:06:56 PM »

The Golden Age - Giants of the Air

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
Excerpts from airships.net - LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin

Graf Zeppelin Round-the-World Flight “Weltfahrt” - In 1929, Graf Zeppelin made perhaps its most famous flight; a round-the-world voyage covering 21,2500 miles in five legs from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen to Tokyo, Tokyo to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Lakehurst, and then Lakehurt to Friedrichshafen again.

Graf Zeppelin Polar Flight - In July, 1931, Graf Zeppelin carried a team of scientists from Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Sweden on an exploration of the Arctic, making meteorological observations, measuring variations in the earth’s magnetic field in the latitudes near the North Pole, and making a photographic survey of unmapped regions using a panoramic camera that automatically took several pictures per minute.  The size, payload, and stability of the zeppelin allowed heavy scientific instruments to be carried and used with an accuracy that would not have been possible with the airplanes of the day.

The Century of Progress Flight to Chicago World’s Fair (1933) - While Graf Zeppelin’s appearance was one of the highlights of the Chicago Fair, the swastika-emblazoned ship, which was viewed as a symbol of the new government in Berlin, triggered strong political responses from both supporters and opponents of Hitler’s regime, especially among German-Americans.  The political controversy muted the enthusiasm that Americans had previously displayed toward the German ship during its earlier visits, and when Eckener took Graf Zeppelin on a aerial circuit around Chicago to show his ship to the residents of the city, he was careful to to fly a clockwise pattern so that Chicagoans would see only the tricolor German flag on the starboard fin, and not the swastika flag painted on the port fin under the new regulations issued by the German Air Ministry.

South American Service - By the summer of 1931, after many pioneering flights which demonstrated the airship’s impressive capabilities and captured the enthusiasm of the world, Graf Zeppelin began regularly scheduled commercial service on the route between Germany and South America.

Graf Zeppelin’s Last Flight - Graf Zeppelin was over the Canary Islands on the last day of a South American flight from Brazil to Germany when it received news of the Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey.  Captain Hans von Schiller withheld the news from his passengers, and told them of the disaster only after the ship’s safe landing in Germany.

Graf Zeppelin landed in Friedrichshafen on May 8, 1937, and never carried a paying passenger again. The ship made only one additional flight, on June 18, 1937, from Friedrichshafen to Frankfurt, where she remained on display — all her hydrogen removed — until she was broken up on the orders of Hermann Goering’s Luftwaffe in March, 1940.


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Alexander Kircher
"LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin" mit dem russischen Eisbreicher "Malygin", 1931




LZ-127 and boat from the Soviet icebreaker Malygin at Franz-Josef Land, 1931




South America Service




LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin port engine car


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin_port_engine_car_-_Zeppelin_Museum_Friedrichshafen_-_DSC06812.jpg

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« Reply #83 on: September 24, 2012, 01:45:49 PM »

Ottomar Anton
In 2 days across the Atlantic, 1936




Jupp Wiertz

A Pleasant Trip to Germany, 1936



In Three Days to South America, 1936



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