Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 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 fou
Isabella Gräfin von Zeppelin
Ferdinand von Zeppelin at the Army of the Potomac's headquarters, Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia, June 1863 by Alexander Gardner
In uniform as adjutant to Charles I of Württemberg, 1865
Zeppelin in 1900
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The ship was nam
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
…under his successor Hugo Eckener. The unfinished Second World War German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, and two rigid airships (the world-circling LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, and LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II, twin to the Hindenburg) were named after him. In 1975, Zeppelin was inducted into the International Air…
The Graf Zeppelin landing
One of the engine nacelles, preserved in Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Gondola deck plan
Theo Matejko's drawing of the crew accommodation on the keel corridor from the first transatlantic flight