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110 111</div> 112<div class="margintop10"></div><ul><li> 113 During World War One, Zeppelins were used as bombers and scouts because ground artillery or airplanes of the time could not reach them if they flew high. 114</li><li> 115 The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally designed to serve as a mooring mast for Zeppelins. 116</li><li> 117 <a href="/list-of-zeppelins/zeppelin-lz-6/">LZ-6</a> was the first Zeppelin to have wireless communication. 118</li><li> 119 The first Zeppelin <a href="/zeppelin-facts/airship-accidents/">accident</a> to cause fatalities was Helgoland Island Air Disaster. <a href="/list-of-zeppelins/zeppelin-lz-14/">LZ-14</a> crashed into the North Sea during a thunderstorm on 9 September 120 1913. 14 crew members drowned. 121</li></ul><div class="d-xl-none d-lg-none"><a href="/picture/picture-of-zeppelin-airship/"><img src="/images/zeppelinhistory/picture-of-zeppelin-airship.jpg" alt="Picture of Modern Zeppelin Airship" class="img-fluid marginbottom10 width100Percent"></a></div><ul><li> 122 <a href="/list-of-zeppelins/hindenburg-disaster/">Hindenburg</a> was named after the late Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg (1847â1934), who was the President of Germany from 1925 to 1934. 123</li><li> 124 Joseph Goebbels, wanted the âHindenburgâ to be renamed the âAdolf Hitlerâ. <a href="/zeppelin-inventor/hugo-eckener/">Hugo Eckener</a> refused. 125</li><li> 126 <a href="/list-of-zeppelins/lz-127-graf-zeppelin/">LZ-127</a> âGraf Zeppelinâ was the first airship to fly around the world, the first aircraft in history to fly over a million miles, and the first Airship to 127 fly to Arctic and back. 128</li><li> 129 From the first flame until the whole of the Hindenburgâs envelope was completely burnt - passed 37 seconds. 130</li><li> 131 LZ-129 Hindenburg and her sister ship LZ130 Graf Zeppelin were the largest Zeppelins and the largest aircrafts ever flown with length of 245 meters. 132</li><li> 133 Before he joined Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, Hugo Eckener was a journalist and editor and had a doctorate in psychology. 134</li><li> 135 To make his second Zeppelin ZL-2, Graf von Zeppelin had to make a lottery, collect some public funding, invest his money and put under mortgage his wife's 136 estate. 137</li><li> 138 On its first flight the <a href="/list-of-zeppelins/zeppelin-lz-1/">LZ-1</a> reached height of 410 m and flew a distance of 6 km in 17 minutes. 139</li></ul><div> 140<!-- CanardEntityRepeating1 --> 141<ins class="adsbygoogle" 142 style="display:block; text-align:center;" 143 data-ad-layout="in-article" 144 data-ad-format="fluid" 145 data-ad-client="ca-pub-9931833670937669" 146 data-ad-slot="1359332215"></ins>
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149 150</div> 151<div class="margintop10"></div><ul><li> 152 When LZ130 âGraf Zeppelin IIâ was finished, it got permit to fly for only a year but not to transport passengers. 153</li><li> 154 Mission of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin on Arctic was to test the Graf Zeppelin under Arctic conditions, scientific and geographic research of large areas of the 155 Arctic, measurement of magnetic field changes, meteorological measurements which included weather balloon launches, geo-photographic recording of large 156 areas with a panoramic camera which would take much longer time if it was made by ship or by land. 157</li><li> 158 Both, LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin and <a href="/list-of-zeppelins/lz-130-graf-zeppelin-2/">LZ-130</a> Graf Zeppelin II as well as the unfinished framework of LZ-131 were scraped under the order of Hermann Göring. 159</li><li> 160 The greatest airship disaster was a crash of USS Akron which flew into the sea in bad weather and broke up. 161</li></ul> 162 163 <div> 164<!-- CanardEntity8 --> 165<ins class="adsbygoogle" 166 style="display:block" 167 data-ad-client="ca-pub-9931833670937669" 168 data-ad-slot="8551426520" 169 data-ad-format="auto" 170 data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>
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