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LZ 54 first flew on 27 November 1915, completing 14 flights during her nine weeks of service. [2] Several of these flights were patrols over the North Sea, searching for Allied merchant and naval ships. Naval scouting was the main role of the navy's Zeppelin fleet, and a total of 220 such flights were carried out during the war. [3]
Production number Class Tactical numbering First flight Remarks Fate Image LZ 26: N: Z XII 14 December 1914 Z XII made 11 attacks in northern France and at the eastern front, dropping 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) of bombs; by the summer of 1915 Z 12 had dropped around 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) of bombs on the Warsaw to Petrograd trunk railway line between the stations at Malkina and Białystok.
Zeppelin LZ 54; LZ 61 (L 21) Zeppelin LZ 80; Zeppelin LZ 86; LZ 104 (L 59) Zeppelin LZ 120 Bodensee; LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin; LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin; M. Zeppelin mail; U ...
Zeppelin LZ 32; LZ 37; Zeppelin LZ 54; LZ 61 (L 21) LZ 104 (L 59) P. Parseval PL25; Z. Zeppelin LZ 5; Zeppelin LZ 14; Zeppelin LZ 17; Zeppelin LZ 23; Zeppelin LZ 38 ...
Imperial German Army LZ 90 (Zeppelin LZ 60) disappears without a trace after breaking loose in a storm and blown out to sea. 0 0 28 December 1916 Imperial German Navy L 24 (Zeppelin LZ 69) crashes into a wall while being taken into its hangar at Tondern and burns out, along with L 17 (Zeppelin LZ 53). 0 0 20 October 1917
Zeppelin LZ 54; LZ 61 (L 21) Zeppelin LZ 80; Zeppelin LZ 86; LZ 104 (L 59) LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin; N. Norge (airship) P. Patrie (airship) R. R33-class airship; Z ...
A Zeppelin of the size of the LZ 129 Hindenburg on a flight from Frankfurt am Main to Lakehurst consumed approximately 54 tonnes of diesel with a buoyancy equivalent of 48,000 cubic metres of hydrogen, which amounted to about a quarter of the lifting gas used at the start of the flight (200,000 cubic metres). After the landing, the jettisoned ...
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.