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Zeppelin "L 30" seen from the front Right gondola of Zeppelin "L 30". Zeppelin "L 30" (factory number "LZ 62") was the first R-class "Super Zeppelin" of the German Empire.It was the most successful airship of the First World War with 31 reconnaissance flights and 10 bombing runs carrying a total of 23,305 kg of bombs, [1] with the first ones targeting England, and the four final raids ...
First successful rigid airship. LZ 37: Zeppelin: Bomber Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) World War I First Zeppelin shot down by an enemy aircraft. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin: Zeppelin: Transport Luftschiffbau Zeppelin: 1928-1940 Most successful airship in history; regular flights to North and South America; world tour in 1929, Arctic trip ...
The USS Los Angeles, a United States Navy airship built in Germany by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin (Zeppelin Airship Company) . A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ⓘ) who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.
Several were sold to Russia, France, the United States, and Italy. The large number of trained crews, low attrition rate and constant experimentation in handling techniques meant that at the war's end Britain was the world leader in non-rigid airship technology. The Royal Navy continued development of rigid airships until the end of the war.
The first successful flight of a rigid airship, Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ1, was in Germany in 1900. [2] Between 1910 and 1914, Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft transported thousands of passengers by airship. [3] [4] During World War I, Germany used airships to bomb London and other strategic targets. [5]
Its airships were grounded and scrapped in 1940 to produce fixed-wing combat aircraft for Nazi Germany's war machine. During the Second World War, the company became involved in the manufacture of the V2 rocket; its facilities were hit by Allied bombing raids and it all but ceased to exist in the final months of the conflict. During the 1980s ...
On 2 October LZ 72 (L 31), which had been commissioned on 14 July and was commanded by Heinrich Mathy, the most successful airship captain of the war, was shot down in flames over Potters Bar by Lt. Wulstan Tempest, [9] and on 27–28 November L 34 was brought down in flames off the coast at Hartlepool by 2nd Lt. Ian Pyott.
The airship took part in three reconnaissance missions and two attacks on England dropping 3,890 kg (8,580 lb) of bombs. It also took part in the Zeppelin raid involving three other Imperial German Airships: the LZ 72 (L 31), L 32 and Zeppelin LZ 76 (L 33) on the evening of 23 September 1916. Of the four Airships, LZ 78 was the only Zeppelin ...