The Zeppelin R Class was a type of rigid airship developed by Zeppelin Luftschiffbau in 1916 for use by the Imperial German Navy and the German Army for...
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Zeppelin "L 30" (factory number "LZ 62") was the first R-class "Super Zeppelin" of the German Empire. It was the most successful airship of the First World...
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor...
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A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ) who pioneered rigid...
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Zeppelin-Staaken R.V Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI Zeppelin-Staaken R.VII Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI Zeppelin-Friedrichshafen...
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The Zeppelin P Class was the first Zeppelin airship type to be produced in quantity after the outbreak of the First World War. Twenty-two of the type...
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Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The band comprised vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist-keyboardist John...
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The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only Riesenflugzeug (giant aircraft) design built...
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LZ 72 (navy designation L 31) was an R Class super-zeppelin belonging to the Imperial German Navy. It was commanded by Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Mathy,...
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Hindenburg class were built entirely from duralumin. The leader of the design team was Ludwig Dürr, who had overseen the design of all Zeppelins except LZ-1...
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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It...
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The Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV was a development of the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI. This was one of a series of large bombers called Riesenflugzeuge, intended to...
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LZ 74 (navy designation L 32) was an R Class super-zeppelin belonging to the Imperial German Navy. It was shot down in 1916. The airship took part in three...
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Wulstan Tempest (section Shooting down a Zeppelin)
Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. He was celebrated for shooting down a Zeppelin R Class airship over Potters Bar in October 1916. Wulstan Tempest was born...
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Germany, on 2 July 1900. "LZ" stood for Luftschiff Zeppelin, or "Airship Zeppelin". Count Zeppelin had been devoting his energies to the design of large...
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The Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 was a revolutionary four-engine all-metal passenger monoplane designed in 1917 by Adolf Rohrbach and completed in 1919 at the...
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Hindenburg class, and the second zeppelin to carry the name "Graf Zeppelin" (after the LZ 127) and thus often referred to as Graf Zeppelin II. Due to...
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Army Zeppelin LZ 76 (L-m33) was a R-class World War I zeppelin. On 23 September 1916 a bombing raid was planned for London. That night, a Zeppelin group...
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Riesenflugzeug (redirect from Zeppelin-Staaken Riesenflugzeuge)
operational examples of Riesenflugzeug-class aircraft were of the second type, as with the all-direct-drive Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI. The Idflieg (Inspektion der...
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(Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying...
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of Zeppelins constructed by the German Zeppelin companies from 1900 until 1938. Other rigid airships that are also sometimes referred to as zeppelins but...
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tactical number L 45, also known as Zeppelin of Laragne by the French public, was a World War I R-Class zeppelin of the German Navy that carried out a...
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The Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI(Av) was a very large bomber (Riesenflugzeug), designed and built in Germany during 1918. The R.XVI, an incremental improvement...
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The Imperial German Army Zeppelin LZ 78 (L-34) was a R-class World War I zeppelin. The airship took part in three reconnaissance missions and two attacks...
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The Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV was an Imperial German bomber of World War I. An incremental improvement to the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, this was one of a series...
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The Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV was a heavy bomber built in Germany in 1916 and which saw service during World War I, briefly on the Eastern Front and then more...
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Zeppelin LZ 89 (L 50) was an R-class zeppelin of the Imperial German Navy. After a short career during the World War I it ran out of fuel during a mission...
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USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) (category Zeppelins)
a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, which was built in 1923–1924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as war reparations. She was delivered...
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John Paul Jones (musician) (category Led Zeppelin members)
record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. He was a session musician and arranger when he formed the band with Jimmy...
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The Imperial German Navy Zeppelin LZ 86 (L-39) was a R-class World War I zeppelin. Two reconnaissance missions around the North Sea; one attack on England...
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