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.

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota ...

In 1919, Prince Edward Island removed its ban on automobiles. In 1929, the airship Graf Zeppelin completed its first trip around the world. In 1933, Canadian sculptor Sorel Etrog was born in Romania.

Helium was, and remains, the ideal gas for airships, whether rigid with internal skeletons like the Graf Zeppelin or deflatable like the ‘blimps’ used for anti-aircraft defence in World War ...

The first modern airship, the Zeppelin LZ1, took flight in 1900, and these dirigibles – large gas balloons steered by engine-driven propellers – were used in bombings in the First World War.

Share this: Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest By Science News Magazine Issue: Vol. 14 No. #394, October 27, 1928 ...

In May 1937, the Graf Zeppelin’s younger sister airship, the Hindenburg, caught fire while trying to land in New Jersey. The Graf Zeppelin was dismantled in 1940 to provide scrap metal for the ...

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.