Beginning with just a handful of flights in a rickety dirigible, they helped change ... and Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin were well known in the United States. Americans, on the other hand, weren ...

Horizontal rudders of the multi-plane type used by Zeppelin are distributed along the flanks of this huge dirigible ... force while under way. The mechanical blowers receiving the air (from ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship ... with the dirigible floating smoothly through ...

The cards and letters aboard the Graf Zeppelin bore a distinctive mark on their envelopes: a small image stamped in ink. National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin ...