Search results

Deutschland was an experimental, hydrogen-filled, non-rigid airship built in Germany in the late 19th Century by Dr Friedrich Wölfert. During a test flight...

built a series of seven airships, including the human-powered Deutschland which flew in Berlin. After flying another airship in Dresden in 1887, a Leipzig...

machine 1896 Chanute Biplane and Multiwing glider 1896 airship Deutschland 1896 Frost Airship Glider 1896 Langley Aerodrome No.5 and No.6 1896 Lilienthal...

experiments on 16 June. Friedrich Wölfert showed his hydrogen-filled airship Deutschland. The large telescope was a major success despite only being completed...

Schütte-Lanz company, founded by Karl Lanz and Johann Schütte in 1909, built 22 airships. The company's main competitor was the Zeppelin works. When World War I...

of the German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin by the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (ZLT) in Friedrichshafen (Lake Constance) in an airship hangar The 90th...

fast Atlantic crossings; in 1936, the German company DELAG commenced an airship service to New York, their Hindenburg crossing from Europe to America in...

protecting him to a bloody pulp. Clouds are mistaken for aeroplanes, stars for airships, bicycle handlebars for bombs, and spies are shot under martial law." Opponents...

at the Berlin Olympic Stadium on 1 August 1936. A flyover by the German airship Hindenburg flying the Olympic flag behind it was featured early in the...

Magazine of History, vol. 41, no. 4 (Summer 1958), pp. 244–251. "Aboard the Airship Hindenburg: Louis P. Lochner's Diary of Its Maiden Flight to the United...

Balkans. 2% of the population is in prison. The protagonists also employ an airship. As Daniel Zalewski of The New York Times writes: "First comes the '06...

declined Zeppelin's airships. Finally in 1911, trials with aircraft began and in 1912 Tirpitz agreed to purchase the first airship for naval reconnaissance...

 Royal Navy 12 March 1918 A D-class submarine sunk in error by the French airship AT-0 off Fécamp, France. Donegal  United Kingdom 17 April 1917 A hospital...

First experimentation by British Army of a man-lifting kite 1896: First flight of Frost Airship Glider 1907: First flight of British Army Dirigible No 1...

motorized aircraft in 1903, Steiner transformed the ponderous gondola airships of his Atlantis story into airplanes with elevators and rudders in 1904...

scepticism of the Ministry of War to airships, made by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was justified. He tried to use the airships and develop rapidly the air force...

air traffic (some 33,000 passengers each year), the base of a fleet of airships and Germany's oldest public flight training company. Residents of the region...

the Observation balloons of the Luftschiffertruppen (Airship Troops) received the first airship battalion. From 1910, the Döberitz Airfield with flying...

forms of transportation, especially automobiles and airships. He invested in the creation of a new airship docking bay in Gotha, a decision that appeared commercially...

Sympathizers, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p. 95 William M. Leary, From Airships to Airbus: The History of Civil and Commercial Aviation, Smithsonian Institution...