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Book currents: full of hot air.(three books)(Brief Article)
Next month marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, in which the mammoth airship -- to some a hopeful symbol of world unity, to others a harbinger of Third Reich aspirations -- met its fiery demise over Lakehurst, New Jersey. Although the destruction of the Hindenburg spelled the end of the great zeppelins, a new wave of airships may be upon us. (The CargoLifter, a giant German airship, is currently being readied for flight.) A recent spate of books re-create the era when zeppelins were the finest way to fly.
As Douglas Botting points out in DR. ECKENER'S DREAM MACHINE (Holt), it was the Graf Zeppelin that (at nine thousand dollars a ticket) was the first airship to circumnavigate the globe, in 1929, before airplanes were capable of covering long routes in a short time. The zeppelin also inspired poetry: Dr. Hugo Eckener, the psychologist who perfected and ...
- Graf Zeppelin
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1995 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1995 Graf Zeppelin The German Graf Zeppelin airship sits at an airfield, flanked by uniformed...Count Ferdinand Zeppelin after World War I, the Graf Zeppelin was commissioned by the German army as an aerial...
- The world's first ELINT platform: Germany's Graf Zeppelin had the endurance and...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Electronic Defense Price, Alfred March 1, 2005 700+ words
...the second airship to bear the name Graf Zeppelin, was well advanced in her construction...important areas? The largely redundant Graf Zeppelin was an ideal vehicle with which to...Wolfgang Martini gained permission to use Graf Zeppelin in the electronic-intelligence...
- The Graf Zeppelin
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1930 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1930 The Graf Zeppelin Developed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin...frame dirigibles like the enormous Graf Zeppelin were ideally suited for carrying passengers...aircraft. airships. dirigibles. the Graf Zeppelin. Zeppelins. transportation. military...
- Graf Zeppelin.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Inferno of the vanities; It was a stuningly brash symbol of Nazi power. So when...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Hudson, Christopher November 18, 2002 700+ words
...still inflated with hydrogen which was highly inflammable. Count Zeppelin had died but his No 2, Dr Hugo Eckener, had built the most successful airship in history - the Graf Zeppelin - which established a passenger service between Germany and...
- The dream that fell to earth. (book review)
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Binyon, Tj September 17, 2001 700+ words
...Eckener built LZ127, the Graf Zeppelin. After the circumnavigation...its huge bulk - the Graf Zeppelin was almost the size...a plan submitted by Count Zeppelin in the 1890s; and...the Clouds, in the Graf Zeppelin's stately progress...
- Past present. (column)
- Magazine article from: The Nation McCall, Bruce February 26, 1990 700+ words
...sack of emergency provisions actually carried aboard the Graf Zeppelin on its Arctic expedition in the 1920s; a fat 1932 German...foil replica of a German coin bearing the visage of old Count Zeppelin himself in bas-relief. Alas for the airship. So grand...
- Dr Echener's Dream Machine. (Books).
- Magazine article from: The Engineer Brown, Julia September 27, 2002 700+ words
...an account of the 1929 round-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin, which, in the author's opinion, is one of the four...this can be attributed to Echener, rather than inventor Count Zeppelin, who lost interest when they proved to have limited uses...
