Zeppelin over London

[Antipodean Andy]

Zeppelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - fascinating floating hangar pic!

Company History ZLT

[Kitty]

Wanna flight in an airship dammit

[Adrian Roberts]

Would be intriguing to know what they have been up to since the Hindenburg surely must have closed them down - at least that's what I would have thought until seeing pics of the NT recently in a "big machines" book.

I believe that between the demise of the Hindenburg and the 1990's they survived as a general engineering company, fabricating whatever components they could get contracts for. Obviously their expertise with aluminium would have been very useful in WW2 and later in the reconstruction of Germany. It was Dr Hugo Eckener who kept them going, the greatest Zeppelin Commander of them all and later the Chief Executive of the Company. (Though he never flew Zeppelins in action - he was deeply suspicious of militarism and the Nazis, but he commanded the Graf Zeppelin during her round the world flight in 1928).

In fact the last of the traditional Zeppelins were the Graf Zeppelin and the Graf Zeppelin II - the latter was a sister-ship to the Hindenburg - they were scrapped in 1940.

[Adrian Roberts]

Wanna flight in an airship dammit

Phone this number and come down to London and you can - if you have £185 to spare.

Maybe for my 50th birthday next year.....

PS Haven't seen it the last couple of days. Maybe the RAF Air Defence squadrons have shot it down after all.
Oh, I forgot - we've just retired our Air Defence to save money.....

[Kyt]

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