In 1928, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin launched the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin. This passenger blimp flew until 1937 and was the world's first commercial transatlantic passenger airship. The LZ 127 Graf ...

A Polish oil firm working in the Baltic Sea has found the remains of the "Graf Zeppelin," Hitler's first -- and last -- aircraft carrier. The ship sank for good sometime after World War II, but ...

Summary and Top 4 Points: The Graf Zeppelin, Germany's first aircraft carrier, was laid down in 1936 but never entered service due to internal disputes, skepticism, and war priorities. -Designed ...

August 2019 marks the 90 year anniversary of the first round-the-world airship journey, made by German pilot Dr Hugo Eckener and his passengers in the rigid airship, Graf Zeppelin.The Graf Zeppelin ...

The hydrogen-filled passenger airship flies much lower to the ground than an airliner. The highest flight made was Graf Zeppelin's around-the-world flight, which ascended to 1,700 m (5,500 ft).

This is the story of a rigid airship's first circumnavigation of the Earth. It is the story of LZ 127, the Graf Zeppelin, a ship that derived its name from an old German noble title.

The Graf Zeppelin, now Germany’s most famed airship, on her return flight from the U. S. to Germany, covered the 4,500 miles in 71 hr., 12 min.

Graf Zeppelin Initial History and Specifications Built by Deutsche Werke, Kiel Shipyards, the Graf Zeppelin was laid down on December 28, 1936, and launched on December 8, 1938.

The Nazis scuttled the aircraft carrier at the end of the war, but it was subsequently refloated by the Russians. But historians are unsure if the ship struck a mine on the way to Russia, or if it ...

After completing the first ever transatlantic airship flight in October 1928, the majestic Graf Zeppelin, a 776-foot gleaming dirigible, was greeted with fanfare wherever it flew; its lighter-than ...

We located a number of real photographs showing the Graf Zeppelin over the pyramids in Egypt, along with one additional image of the airship specifically journeying over the Great Spinx of Giza.