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The airship was named after the Soviet organisation OSOAVIAKhIM. V6 was the largest airship built in the Soviet Union and one of the most successful. In October 1937, V6 broke the world record for airship endurance previously held by the Graf Zeppelin; under the command of Ivan Pankow, the airship remained aloft for 130 hours 27 minutes.
It has been called "the world's most successful airship", [78] [197] but it was not a commercial success; it had been hoped that the Hindenburg-class airships that followed would have the capacity and speed to make money on the popular North Atlantic route. [198] Graf Zeppelin's achievements showed that this was technically possible. [78]
U.S. Navy command, remembering airship's anti-submarine success in World War I, immediately requested new modern antisubmarine airships and on 2 January 1942 formed the ZP-12 patrol unit based in Lakehurst from the four K airships. The ZP-32 patrol unit was formed from two TC and two L airships a month later, based at NAS Moffett Field in ...
Most successful US rigid airship, with just under 4,400 hours of successful flight in US Navy service. Decommissioned in 1932 as an economy measure, but recommissioned after the crash of the USS Akron in 1933. After flying for a few more years, it was retired to its hangar at Lakehurst until 1939 when it was struck off the Navy list and ...
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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.
Euro Airship is planning an around-the-world, non-stop flight with Solar Airship One. It would be the first flight to make the trip without using fossil fuels.
The largest airship in the world took its first step toward coming to Akron with a successful first test flight in Silicon Valley. Massive electric aircraft, bigger than Goodyear blimp, has first ...