Before World War II, his floating dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Storied airships such as the globe-circling Graf Zeppelin carried high society in high style at low altitude. Then the Hindenburg ...

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 ...

The Graf Zeppelin was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who held the rank of graf (count) in the German nobility. It flew for the first time on Sept. 18, 1928.

And finally, on the 11th of October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG's operations, began the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights.

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 ...

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 ...