Zeppelin

About this eBook

Author

Vissering, Harry

Title

Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement

Credits

Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics

Subject

Aeronautics, Commercial

Category

Text

eBook-No.

32570

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32570

Release Date

May 28, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Zeppelin
2. 2.The Story of a Great Achievement
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.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
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.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

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