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The Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) during its arctic journey, 1931.

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By the way, you'll find a *lot* of info (history and tech) on early airships at:

www.airships.net/hindenburg

From a photo of Max Schmeling peering down from the Hindenburg, as it flew over Philadelphia, to specs and engineering drawings made by the German Zeppelin company during airship construction.

We use that website for much of our airship research and restoration at the New England Air Museum.

Tom
 
Great site, Tom. Thanks!
 
Nice Tom, brought back memories. I was stationed at Lakehurst in the late 50s, in a blimp squadron ZP-753. We flew the "K" bags towing sonar fish off the coast of New Jersey. We had a great time in that squadron, it was just like a big family. Most blimp crews were like that, very close. We also had a pet name for blimps, but it wouldn't be appropriate to mention that here.
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This appears to be one of 753s ships in front of hangar nos 5&6.
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This also looks like one of our ships approaching a mast, (out of site), in front of our hangar.
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Hangars 5&6 look like this today.
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Man, I just spent over an hour on that airship site and haven't gotten to all of it yet...Thanks for the link. I'll be revisiting it later. :smile:
 
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