The Graf Zeppelin accomplished several aviation firsts, including the first commercial transatlantic flight, and a round-the-world flight. The airship had a luxurious gondola with private cabins ...

Here, the Graf Zeppelin, a commercial passenger ship ... And the Northampton Mercury reported a hoax involving an airship model used for advertising motorcars. As for the first sighting, a ...

National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin—named for one inventor of hydrogen airships, Graf (Count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin—departed its Friedrichshafen ...

Longest flight: The Graf Zeppelin's 6,168-mile non-stop transatlantic crossing took 111 hours and 44 minutes. Luxury travel: The airship offered 10-passenger cabins, luxurious dining, and ...

Construction of the airship began in 1931 and was completed in 1936. The Hindenburg, along with its highly successful predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, made numerous trans-Atlantic crossings in ...

Like two great bolognas, the Graf Zeppelin and the new ... equipped to command Germany’s greatest airship. A naval architect on Count Ferdinand Zeppelin’s staff, he was operating the dirigible ...

Documentary Film which uses the letters and diaries of passenger Lady Grace DrummondHay and archival footage to document the Graf Zeppelin airships circumnavigation of the globe in 1929 In 1928 ...