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Zeppelin - Harry Vissering
Harry Vissering
Zeppelin
The Story of a Great Achievement
EAN 8596547130024
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I
Zeppelin and His Airships
An Officer in the American Union Army
Zeppelin’s First Rigid Design
Financing the First Zeppelin Company
The First Zeppelin Flight
The First Company Dissolved Through Lack of Funds
Assisted by the King of Wurttemberg
Handicapped by Motor Trouble
Successful Trials with the Third Zeppelin
The Government Becomes Interested
Zeppelins for Commerce and War
The Zeppelin Endowment
The Beginning of the Zeppelin Organization
Early Development and Flights
Hailed as National Hero
The New Construction Plant
Military Value Proved by Commercial Operation
Activities Early in the War
Operations with the Fleet
The Growth of the Zeppelins
North Sea Patrol Flights
Zeppelins Become Lighter and Stronger
The Zeppelin Observation Car
Anti-Aircraft Defenses Compel Zeppelins to Fly Higher
Faster Zeppelins for Scouting
Zeppelin Vision of World Transport
His Will Carried Out After His Death
The Record Flight of L-59
4225 Miles in Less than Four Days
Larger Zeppelins More Powerful
The Most Remarkable Scientific Development in the History of Aeronautics
Seventy Percent Speed Increase
Refinement in Design
Eighty-Eight Zeppelins During the War
One Hundred and Fifteen Zeppelins Built and Operated
Scientific Comparison
Efficiency Characteristics of Some of the Latest and Best Airships of All Nations
CHAPTER II
The Zeppelin Organization at the Time of Its Greatest Activity 1918-1919
Many Subsidiary Companies
The Construction Plants
The Airship Factories
The Hydrogen Plant
Powerful Radio Station
The Great Zeppelin Hangars
The Potsdam Plant
The Colossal Staaken Plant
The Duralumin Works
The Woodworking Factory
The Maybach Motor Works
Performance of Engines—1892-1918
The Employment and Training System
The Zeppelin-Maybach Gearless Car
New Methods of Gas Bag Fabrication
The Maag-Zeppelin Gear Works
The Hangar Construction Company
Zeppelin Production of Airplanes
The Zeppelin-Dornier Metal Monoplanes
Twenty-one Dornier Designs
Zeppelin Builds Giant Airplanes
The Airplane Works at Staaken
Social Welfare Institutions of the Zeppelin Organizations
CHAPTER III
Operations of Commercial Zeppelins
The First Air Transport Company
Part of the Aviation Reserve
Created the First Airship Harbor
Like Land and Water Services
The Schwaben
Filled all Requirements
Accommodations for Many Passengers
Development of Adequate Hangars
Many Long Commercial Flights
Developed Airship Navigation
Zeppelins Operated Safely
Commercial Operations of the Zeppelin
Trained Germany’s Airship Forces
Commercial Operations Resumed
The Bodensee
an Improved Type
Carried Thirty Passengers
One Hundred and Three Flights in Ninety-Eight Days
The Nordstern
a Sister Ship
CHAPTER IV
The Zeppelin Organization and Facilities Today
Research and Development Work Continues
Zeppelin Able to Produce All Types
Guaranteed Performance Based on Actual Experience
Complete Airship Navigation Data Now Available
Zeppelin Organization Equipped for New Conditions
Two and a Half Days Trans-Atlantic Service Possible
New York-Chicago Route Difficult but Practicable
Many Engineering Problems Solved
Zeppelin Now Aims to Increase Efficiency
Commercial Operations Data Compiled
The Public will Accept Airship Transportation Here as Abroad
Zeppelin Ready to Participate in Development Throughout the World
FOREWORD
Table of Contents
Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for civilization.
—Macaulay.
The economic value of the fast transportation of passengers, mail and express matter has been well proven. The existing high speed railway trains and ocean liners are the result of the ever increasing demand for rapid communication both on land and water.
Saving in time is the great essential. The maximum surface speed has apparently been attained. The railways and steamships of today, while indeed fast, have reached their economical limit of speed and it is not to be expected that they will be able, because of the enormous additional cost of operation involved, to attain much greater speeds.
The large Zeppelin Airship supplies the demand for a much faster, more luxurious, more comfortable and more safe long distance transportation. It is not restricted by the geographical limitations of the railway and the steamship. A Zeppelin can go anywhere, in fact the cruising radius of a Zeppelin is only limited by the size of the ship and the amount of fuel it can carry.
Zeppelins, only slightly larger than those actually flown during the last few months of the war, are capable of safely and quickly making a non-stop flight from Berlin to Chicago and from New York to Paris in 56 hours, carrying 100 passengers and in addition 12 tons of mail or express matter.
In November, 1917, the Zeppelin L-59 made a non-stop flight from Jambol, Bulgaria, to a point just west of Khartum in Africa and return to Jambol in 95 hours (4 days) covering a distance of 4225 miles and carrying more than 14 tons of freight besides a crew of 22, which performance remains a world’s record for all kinds of aircraft, airship or aeroplane.
In July, 1919, the British Rigid Airship R-34 (copy of the Zeppelin L-33 brought down in England) crossed the Atlantic in 103 hours and after being refueled at New York returned home in 75 hours.
Count Zeppelin, Doctor Eckener and Capt. StrasserCount Zeppelin, Doctor Eckener and Capt. Strasser (Chief of Naval Air Service). On the occasion of the last visit of the Count to the Airship Harbor at Nordholz.
Dr. Ing. Ludwig Dürr, Chief EngineerDr. Ing. Ludwig Dürr, Chief Engineer.
Who was associated with Count Zeppelin from the start.
The German Airship Transportation Company—DELAG—(a Zeppelin subsidiary) during a period of three years just before the war, 1911-14, carried 34,228 passengers without a single injury to either passengers or crews, and after the war, from August 24th to December 1st, 1919, by means of the improved Zeppelin Bodensee
carried 2,380 passengers, 11,000 pounds of mail (440,000 letters), and 6,600 pounds of express matter, exclusive of crews, between Friedrichshafen (Swiss frontier) and Berlin under unfavorable weather and terminal conditions, besides a flight from Berlin to Stockholm and return.
The U.S. Government has concluded arrangements (June, 1922) with the Allied Powers whereby the U.S. Navy will receive a modern Zeppelin as a part of America’s share