1900 On July 2nd, a rigid airship designed and manufactured by German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin made its first flight near today's Featley Port.
This airship was built by the 1 hangar floating on Lake konstanz. It has 1 aluminum shell wrapped with metal wire, and aluminum shell wrapped with cotton cloth with 16 hydrogen airbag. Two 16 horsepower engines made the speed of the airship reach 14 miles per hour, and led zeppelin was once an important commercial flight on both sides of the Atlantic.
During the American Civil War, when von Zeppelin was serving in the federal army, he rose into the air by balloon for the first time, and began to develop airships from 189 1.
Because its ability is superior to that of the aircraft of the same period, it can carry large cargo and has made brilliant achievements in the early days of aviation. "led zeppelin" is synonymous with rigid airship.
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German defeat after World War I once plunged the operation of rigid airship into a quagmire, but hugo eckener revived rigid airship in1920s and reached its peak in191930s.
At that time, several famous giant spacecraft, including LZ 127 graf zeppelin and LZ 129 Hindenburg, made huge profits on transatlantic routes in Europe and America.
Unexpectedly, in 1937, the Hindenburg caught fire and crashed in New Jersey, USA. This is the famous "Hindenburg air crash". After that, the whole spacecraft transportation industry, including rigid airships, declined rapidly and was quickly replaced by emerging civil aircraft.
Baidu Encyclopedia-led zeppelin (Rigid Airship)