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Five of them powered the German airship Graf Zeppelin, housed in separate nacelles. The engines developed 410 kW (550 hp) and were of 33.251 L (2,029.1 cu in) capacity. They could burn either Blau gas or petrol. [1] [2] The American USS Akron used eight of them, mounted internally, [3] as did its sister ship Macon. [4]
The Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #130; Registration: D-LZ 130) was the last of the German rigid airships built by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the period between the World Wars, the second and final ship of the Hindenburg class, and the second zeppelin to carry the name "Graf Zeppelin" (after the LZ 127) and thus often referred to as Graf Zeppelin II.
The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany.She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany and represented part of the Kriegsmarine ' s attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power far beyond the narrow confines of the Baltic and North Seas.
Construction resumed in 1935. The keel of the second ship, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin was laid on June 23, 1936, and the cells were inflated with hydrogen on August 15, 1938. As the second Zeppelin to carry the name Graf Zeppelin (after the LZ 127), it is often referred to as Graf Zeppelin II.
(In German, the nouns were masculine, that is, "der Parseval", "der Zeppelin".) In contrast to the Zeppelins, the Parsevals were non-rigid or semi-rigid airships, with little or no stiffening structure inside the fabric envelope. The Zeppelins had a rigid internal framework made of duralumin. Both types relied on hydrogen gas to provide lift.
Graf Zeppelin's achievements showed that this was technically possible. [78] By the time the two Graf Zeppelins were recycled, they were the last rigid airships in the world, [199] and heavier-than-air long-distance passenger transport, using aircraft like the Focke-Wulf Condor and the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, was already in its ascendancy. [200]
Data from Zeppelin : rigid airships, 1893-1940, [3] The Zeppelin Airships - Part Two: Zeppelins of the Great War 1914–1918 [4] General characteristics. Crew: 16; Capacity: 9,200 kg (20,283 lb) typical disposable load; Length: 158 m (518 ft 4 in) Diameter: 14.9 m (48 ft 11 in) maximum; Fineness ratio: 10.61; Volume: 22,470 m 3 (794,000 cu ft ...
The Schwaben was 140.21 m (460 ft) long, 14 metres (46 ft) in diameter and had a lifting gas volume of 17,800 m 3 (628,000 cu ft). It was powered by three 108 kW (145 hp) Maybach engines, giving a maximum speed of 76 km/h (47 mph). Schwaben was the first Zeppelin to use these engines, which were used to drive most later examples. The ...