Longest flight: The Graf Zeppelin's 6,168-mile non-stop transatlantic crossing took 111 hours and 44 minutes. Luxury travel: The airship offered 10-passenger cabins, luxurious dining, and ...
The Graf Zeppelin accomplished several aviation firsts, including the first commercial transatlantic flight, and a round-the-world flight. The airship had a luxurious gondola with private cabins ...
Pathfinder 1, bankrolled by a Google billionaire, is an attempt to revive the airship. A century after terrifying disasters, ...
His point is borne out by the numbers. During the creation of the Graf Zeppelin, the company’s most successful airship, the Weimar government subsidized the project with between 1 million and 1. ...
The 19-foot-wide and 43-foot-long dining room featured silk wallpaper depicting the exploits of the Hindenberg's sister ship, the Graf Zeppelin. The chairs were even made from tubular aluminum to ...
The Graf Zeppelin has finally been found! This film tells the incredible story of the lead ship of the German "Kriegsmarine", from its construction to its sinking and its amazing discovery over ...
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 ...
Facing the train station, a stone's throw from its peers, Althoff Hotel am Schlossgarten and Le Meridien, this hotel comes right in between the two, offering requisite commercial facilities and a ...
The Hindenburg, along with its highly successful predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, made numerous trans-Atlantic crossings in their brief but illustrious careers. Constructed out of an aluminum alloy ...
The last giant rigid airship Graf Zeppelin II flew for the final time on 20 August 1939, 12 days before World War Two started, and was scrapped the following year. Rigid airships have a complex ...