Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most ...
The larger they grew the safer they became in the air. And the larger they grew the more like the ocean steamship they became in their appointments. A modern Zeppelin or Parseval, with its huge ...
BERLIN, Nov. 10, 1908 (UP) - Emperor William of Germany made a flight Tuesday in Count Zeppelin's airship. It was the first trip in the air ever made by a ruler of a nation. The emperor started on ...
And they come out, and they can see this airship in the sky, 'caught in the searchlights. HISTORIAN:'And then as this zeppelin moves across the sky, 'suddenly there's an aeroplane in pursuit.
‘Atlant’ is the brainchild of the ‘Myasishchev’ Design Bureau. In fact, to transport such space components as mentioned above, the bureau modified the 3M-T strategic bomber.
Standing majestically in Bedfordshire farmland, their sheer size and engineering are testament to a previous age of confidence. At Cardington, three miles southeast of Bedford and fifty miles ...
Documentary Film which uses the letters and diaries of passenger Lady Grace DrummondHay and archival footage to document the Graf Zeppelin airships circumnavigation of the globe in 1929 In 1928 ...