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    Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement
    Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement
    Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement
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    Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement

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    Release dateDec 2, 2019
    ISBN4057664596239
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      Zeppelin - Harry Vissering

      Harry Vissering

      Zeppelin

      The Story of a Great Achievement

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664596239

      Table of Contents

      FOREWORD

      CHAPTER I

      Zeppelin and His Airships

      An Officer in the American Union Army

      Zeppelin’s First Rigid Design

      Financing the First Zeppelin Company

      The First Zeppelin Flight

      The First Company Dissolved Through Lack of Funds

      Assisted by the King of Wurttemberg

      Handicapped by Motor Trouble

      Successful Trials with the Third Zeppelin

      The Government Becomes Interested

      Zeppelins for Commerce and War

      The Zeppelin Endowment

      The Beginning of the Zeppelin Organization

      Early Development and Flights

      Hailed as National Hero

      The New Construction Plant

      Military Value Proved by Commercial Operation

      Activities Early in the War

      Operations with the Fleet

      The Growth of the Zeppelins

      North Sea Patrol Flights

      Zeppelins Become Lighter and Stronger

      The Zeppelin Observation Car

      Anti-Aircraft Defenses Compel Zeppelins to Fly Higher

      Faster Zeppelins for Scouting

      Zeppelin Vision of World Transport

      His Will Carried Out After His Death

      The Record Flight of L-59

      4225 Miles in Less than Four Days

      Larger Zeppelins More Powerful

      The Most Remarkable Scientific Development in the History of Aeronautics

      Seventy Percent Speed Increase

      Refinement in Design

      Eighty-Eight Zeppelins During the War

      One Hundred and Fifteen Zeppelins Built and Operated

      Scientific Comparison

      Efficiency Characteristics of Some of the Latest and Best Airships of All Nations

      CHAPTER II

      The Zeppelin Organization at the Time of Its Greatest Activity 1918-1919

      Many Subsidiary Companies

      The Construction Plants

      The Airship Factories

      The Hydrogen Plant

      Powerful Radio Station

      The Great Zeppelin Hangars

      The Potsdam Plant

      The Colossal Staaken Plant

      The Duralumin Works

      The Woodworking Factory

      The Maybach Motor Works

      Performance of Engines—1892-1918

      The Employment and Training System

      The Zeppelin-Maybach Gearless Car

      New Methods of Gas Bag Fabrication

      The Maag-Zeppelin Gear Works

      The Hangar Construction Company

      Zeppelin Production of Airplanes

      The Zeppelin-Dornier Metal Monoplanes

      Twenty-one Dornier Designs

      Zeppelin Builds Giant Airplanes

      The Airplane Works at Staaken

      Social Welfare Institutions of the Zeppelin Organizations

      CHAPTER III

      Operations of Commercial Zeppelins

      The First Air Transport Company

      Part of the Aviation Reserve

      Created the First Airship Harbor

      Like Land and Water Services

      The Schwaben Filled all Requirements

      Accommodations for Many Passengers

      Development of Adequate Hangars

      Many Long Commercial Flights

      Developed Airship Navigation

      Zeppelins Operated Safely

      Commercial Operations of the Zeppelin

      Trained Germany’s Airship Forces

      Commercial Operations Resumed

      The Bodensee an Improved Type

      Carried Thirty Passengers

      One Hundred and Three Flights in Ninety-Eight Days

      The Nordstern a Sister Ship

      CHAPTER IV

      The Zeppelin Organization and Facilities Today

      Research and Development Work Continues

      Zeppelin Able to Produce All Types

      Guaranteed Performance Based on Actual Experience

      Complete Airship Navigation Data Now Available

      Zeppelin Organization Equipped for New Conditions

      Two and a Half Days Trans-Atlantic Service Possible

      New York-Chicago Route Difficult but Practicable

      Many Engineering Problems Solved

      Zeppelin Now Aims to Increase Efficiency

      Commercial Operations Data Compiled

      The Public will Accept Airship Transportation Here as Abroad

      Zeppelin Ready to Participate in Development Throughout the World

      FOREWORD

      Table of Contents

      Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for civilization.

      —Macaulay.

      The economic value of the fast transportation of passengers, mail and express matter has been well proven. The existing high speed railway trains and ocean liners are the result of the ever increasing demand for rapid communication both on land and water.

      Saving in time is the great essential. The maximum surface speed has apparently been attained. The railways and steamships of today, while indeed fast, have reached their economical limit of speed and it is not to be expected that they will be able, because of the enormous additional cost of operation involved, to attain much greater speeds.

      The large Zeppelin Airship supplies the demand for a much faster, more luxurious, more comfortable and more safe long distance transportation. It is not restricted by the geographical limitations of the railway and the steamship. A Zeppelin can go anywhere, in fact the cruising radius of a Zeppelin is only limited by the size of the ship and the amount of fuel it can carry.

      Zeppelins, only slightly larger than those actually flown during the last few months of the war, are capable of safely and quickly making a non-stop flight from Berlin to Chicago and from New York to Paris in 56 hours, carrying 100 passengers and in addition 12 tons of mail or express matter.

      In November, 1917, the Zeppelin L-59 made a non-stop flight from Jambol, Bulgaria, to a point just west of Khartum in Africa and return to Jambol in 95 hours (4 days) covering a distance of 4225 miles and carrying more than 14 tons of freight besides a crew of 22, which performance remains a world’s record for all kinds of aircraft, airship or aeroplane.

      In July, 1919, the British Rigid Airship R-34 (copy of the Zeppelin L-33 brought down in England) crossed the Atlantic in 103 hours and after being refueled at New York returned home in 75 hours.

      Count Zeppelin, Doctor Eckener and Capt. Strasser

      Count Zeppelin, Doctor Eckener and Capt. Strasser (Chief of Naval Air Service). On the occasion of the last visit of the Count to the Airship Harbor at Nordholz.

      Dr. Ing. Ludwig Dürr, Chief Engineer

      Dr. Ing. Ludwig Dürr, Chief Engineer.

      Who was associated with Count Zeppelin from the start.

      The German Airship Transportation Company—DELAG—(a Zeppelin subsidiary) during a period of three years just before the war, 1911-14, carried 34,228 passengers without a single injury to either passengers or crews, and after the war, from August 24th to December 1st, 1919, by means of the improved Zeppelin Bodensee carried 2,380 passengers, 11,000 pounds of mail (440,000 letters), and 6,600 pounds of express matter, exclusive of crews, between Friedrichshafen (Swiss frontier) and Berlin under unfavorable weather and terminal conditions, besides a flight from Berlin to Stockholm and return.

      The U.S. Government has concluded arrangements (June, 1922) with the Allied Powers whereby the U.S. Navy will receive a modern Zeppelin as a part of

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