You’ve heard of the word Zeppelin and first thing that pops to your mind are large airships, most notably the famous ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a ...

On December 8, 1934, the Graf Zeppelin departed from Germany bound for Brazil at the height of the Christmas season. Aboard the 776-foot-long zeppelin were 19 passengers, holiday mail and a load ...

That spot, called Mines Field, is also where 61 passengers arrived to great fanfare in 1929 aboard the giant dirigible Graf Zeppelin, which had traveled from Tokyo on a ’round-the-world' expedition.

One of the most famous airships was the Graf Zeppelin which flew around the world in 1929. In the 1930s, it also started the first regular air service across the Atlantic. Its success inspired the ...

Like two great bolognas, the Graf Zeppelin and the new Hindenburg (LZ-129) last week floated over Germany on a propaganda tour. While the Graf hovered above Bavaria sprinkling election handbills, ...

The last giant rigid airship Graf Zeppelin II flew for the final time on 20 August 1939, 12 days before World War Two started, and was scrapped the following year.

The pair never lived together permanently and the marriage produced no children. In 1928 and 1929 Wilkins explored Antarctica from the air and flew around the world in the Graf Zeppelin – a German ...

The explosion of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, is shown in an exhibit at the Zeppelin Museum in Neu-Isenberg, Germany.

The Hindenburg disaster effectively ended passenger airship flight. The day after the accident, the Graf Zeppelin (pictured) landed safely in Germany after its return flight from Brazil.

On July 2, 1900, the first directed flight of the LZ-1, a zeppelin airship, took place in Germany. The man behind it was Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, who pioneered the cause of building rigid ...