When passengers took off from Friedrichshafen, Germany on October 11, 1928 for the world’s first nonstop, transatlantic commercial flight, they didn’t embark upon the voyage from their seats on an ...
The cards and letters aboard the Graf Zeppelin bore a distinctive mark on their envelopes: a small image stamped in ink. National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf ...
The airship Graf Zeppelin is shown at Mines Field (now Los Angeles International Airport) on Aug. 26, 1929. Two days later, the Graf flew over Iowa on its way to Chicago before finishing its ...
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 in ...
Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, ...
On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo Megías fulfilled his dream by embarking on the first trip around the world in the Graf Zeppelin. It was not the first time that Megías, King Alfonso XIII ...
An American airship designed and flown by Walter Wellman and Melvin Vaniman, with a crew of four others, attempted to make the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1910. The airship set out ...
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