Friedrichshafen is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. It is the district capital of the Bodensee district in the
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View from Lake Constance of All Saints' Church and Graf Zeppelin House
Zeppelin-Statue at Graf Zeppelin House, Säntis in the background
A rigid airship is a type of airship in which the envelope is supported by an internal framework rather than by being kept in shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope, as in blimps
Construction of USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), 1923, showing the framework of a rigid airship
LZ 1, the first successful rigid airship
The extended Spiess airship in 1913
The British R34 in Long Island during the first ever return crossing of the Atlantic in July 1919