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 ...LIGHT Internationa!, 5 September 1974
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Rigid Airships
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) became interested
in airships in 1874. His first designs in 1891 and 1894, neither
of which were built, were for airship-trains, with separate prime-
movers ...
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 ...ggest of which could
carry 84 passengers. All this depends, naturally,
on the accuracy of the market analyses which
spurred Zeppelin to return to its roots.
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin was founded by
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1908, and
still exists under the auspices of the Zeppelin
foundation. The venerable former manufactur
er of the early 20th century's airborne giants
now owns 51 % o...
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 ...ned, however, that
this progress has already been chronicled, not only
in " FLIGHT," from Vol. I, in 1908, but in the pages
of its parent, the " Auto.," for many years before.
It was in 1893 that Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin,
inspired by the efforts of D. Schwarz, got out the
designs of his first rigid airship with the help of his
chief engineer, Kober; but it was not until 1898
that he st...
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 ...lar idols, while aero-
nautics has lost probably her most enthusiastic and per-
sistent worker, albeit his inventions have been turned to
such dastardly purposes. Born at Constance on July 8th,
1838, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was nearing the end of
his seventy-eighth year. He was a veteran of the American
Civil War, when he fought for the Union, and he had taken
part in the Austro-Prussian war ...
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 ...1A JGHT MAY 18, 1916.
ANOTHER SPEECH BY LORD MONTAGU.
SPEAKING at a meeting organised by the Navy League, at
Haling, on May 9th, Lord Montagu again emphasised that the
longer the war lasted the mo...
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 ...et. The
testator left /50 to his nephew. Count Conrad Zeppelin, who
was a curate at Bexhill until 1887, when, owing to defective
eyesight, he returned to Germany. Count Conrad is a cousin
of the late Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, of airship notoriety,
his mother, the late Mr. Knox's sister, having married a
brother of Count Ferdinand's father.
Captain JOHN PALETHOBPE, who has recently been awarded...
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 ...18 FLIGHT. JULY 7, 1938.
COUNT von ZEPPELIN
Centenary of a Pioneer
ALMOST exactly one hundred years ago—on July 8, 1838— L Count Ferdinand von Zep
pelin was born at Manzell,
near Friedrichshafen....
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 ...FLIGHT, JULY 24, 1931
!Baok JUuiew
THE FATHER OF THE RIGID*
IT is not generally known that Count Ferdinand vonZeppelin had this in common with British airman, that
both, at different times, fought aga...
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APRIL 17, 1909.
"Zeppelin I "'Aloft All Night.
WHAT is reported as a secret military flight was suc-
cessfully carried out by the Zeppelin airship early last
week, when ...
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 ...IU, hU&+> 1216
FLIGHT International, lb October 1976
Above, who is the chap in the pith helmet? His
latest mount appears to be a Farman-Voisin
hybrid, as used by the RFC's 31 Sqn on the
North-...
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JANUARY 23, 1909.
The Zeppelin Airships.
CONSIDERABLE activity is now taking place in the
construction of Zeppelin airships by the Luftschiffbau
Zeppelin Gesellschaft, w...
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MARCH 6, 1909.
seriously study the question as to the ways and means of
housing these machines in different parts of the country
in times of emergency. A report has been prese...
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JUNE 5, 1909.
continuing the homeward run, and Count Zeppelin
was naturally anxious that not a precious moment of
comparative calm should be lost in doing work that might
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SEPTEMBER 4, 1909.
" Zeppelin III ** reaches Berlin. .
ALTHOUGH in a preliminary trial which was carried
out over Lake Constance on Wednesday week, " Zeppelin
III " beha...
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 ...JDLY 2, iglO. [jmn
'Zeppelin VII," which last week sailed from Friedrichshafen to Dusseldorf for its initial passenger service voyage.—On
the right is a detailed view of the passenger "car," which ...
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 ...FROM THE
Attack by Air,
THK LaMORg OF THE SHEERNESS INCIDENT.
MR. CHURCHILL'S statement that all necessary precautions would
be taken to protect our nival establishments against aetial observation...
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 ...Another message from Paris on the same day said that
among the German prisoners sent to Cholet were two
lieutenant aviators who flew over Paris the previous week
when they dropped bombs. The pilot ...
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 ...(/yGHT OCTOBER I, 1915.
THE ZEPPELIN CAPTAIN'S STORY.
THE following narrative has been published in the New
York World, and is the version given by Commander
Mathy, who was in charge of the airshi...
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 ...[/ycHf
Zeppelins Over Holland.
AZEPPELfN passed over Vaals and Heerle, which are both within
the Dutch frontier, at nine o'clock on the morning of the 15th,
going in the direction of Aix-la-Chapel...
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 ...Flight, November 29, 1923
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Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER . . ; • -
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