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One of LZ 1's Daimler NL-1 engines, preserved in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. At its first trial the LZ 1 carried five people, reached an altitude of 410 m (1,350 ft) and flew a distance of 6.0 km (3.7 mi) in 17 minutes, but by then the moveable weight had jammed and one of the engines had failed: the wind then forced an emergency landing.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; [1] 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
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The only other result known from the testing is that it was not as stable on the water as the Zeppelin-Lindau flying boats like the RS.III designed by Claude Dornier. The Naval Air Service ordered six improved versions as the Zeppelin-Staaken 8301 in two batches in December 1917 and January 1918. The first pair ordered were still being ...
1893: Zeppelin, the first rigid airship, [580] by Ferdinand von Zeppelin [581] 1894: Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat, the first aeroplane to be serially produced, by Otto Lilienthal [582] [583] 1895: Internal combustion engine bus by Daimler [584] 1896: First truck (Daimler Motor-Lastwagen) by Gottlieb Daimler [585] 1897: Flat engine by Karl Benz ...
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH is a German aircraft manufacturing company. It is perhaps best known for its leading role in the design and manufacture of rigid airships, commonly referred to as Zeppelins due to the company's prominence.
The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only Riesenflugzeug ("giant aircraft") design built in any quantity. [2]The R.VI was the most numerous of the R-Bombers built by Germany, and also among the earliest closed-cockpit military aircraft (the first being the Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets).
2 July – Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin pilots his experimental first Zeppelin, LZ 1, over Lake Constance, reaching an altitude of 400 metres (1,300 feet) with five men on board. Although the flight lasts only 18 minutes, covers only 5.6 kilometers (3.5 mi), and ends in an emergency landing on the lake, it is the first flight of a truly ...