Comments on: LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin Photographs

By: Greg Lugn

Greg Lugn — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:28:10 +0000

It’s not. the LZ 130 was scrapped just like its name sake the LZ 128.

By: Hendrick Stoops

Hendrick Stoops — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:10:54 +0000

I’m curious,
were the photo’s of the interiors of the GZ2 actual interior photos, or a period mockup. also, what was the color scheme?

By: Albert L. Fowler

Albert L. Fowler — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:23:09 +0000

As a child living in 1934 in the east cost town of Peterhead my father told me to come quickly to see the Zeppelin that flew over the town. I was stuck by its size, and how its engines sounded, and how it flew slowly over the town. I remember my Dad saying “its flying over the Academy” and I watched it do that. How strange then that during the 1939-1945 war the Academy was bombed on two separate occasions. The outcome was that my education was suspended while other accommodation was found.

By: Jasonwallace

Jasonwallace — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:04:35 +0000

Dear Dan and airship fanatics as it is on youtube alot of you may have all ready seen it but none the less BEHOLD THE LAUNCH FOOTAGE OF THE LZ-130 GRAF ZEPPELIN!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm–JD1UfDs

By: Frank Bitterhof

Frank Bitterhof — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:34:14 +0000

What a fabulous website you are sharing with us! You have schematics of LZ-130 I have never seen before and had no idea such existed! Most impressive, beautiful!
Unfortunately, yesterday was a very sad day for Germany, as the Hindenburg exploded again on German TV.
“Hindenburg” is a new film (US-German Coproduction) any Zeppelinfahrer should take with tons of salt. While the passenger section is supposedly that of the Hindenburg, it rather looks like it may be a prototype of LZ-131 as it features design elements of LZ-130 previously not available on LZ-129 and they have abandoned the smoking lounge (people now smoke cigarettes in an open area, must be LZ-131 filled with helium instead of hydrogen…).
CGI effects are okay but it’s quite a waste that they didn’t use the technology to get us closer to the burning ship and show how passengers and crew jumped off (actually it’s a colorized copy of the original newsreel footage but now you don’t see the dots jumping off…!).
Thought you might find this interesting, but be well advised to lower your expectations.

Frank B., Berlin, Germany

By: Rosa

Rosa — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:11:00 +0000

Okay, that does make a bit more sense now, thank you

By: Dan (Airships.net)

Dan (Airships.net) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:38:33 +0000

Sorry you are confused… I will try to help!

There were two airships named “Graf Zeppelin”… LZ-127 and LZ-130. (Although LZ-130 is sometimes called “Graf Zeppelin II” to avoid confusion, the actual name of the ship was simply “Graf Zeppelin.”)

LZ-129 Hindenburg was not the last zeppelin constructed; LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin was launched in 1938 and flew from 1938-1939.

Construction was started on LZ-131, but very little was completed before the project was canceled.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:37:38 +0000

I’m a little confused. So, I’m doing a project on the Hindenburg for school, and I’ve used this website as a major source, but I’m always fascinated with Zeppelins. My only question is about these later models I keep reading about in these comments; The LZ-130? 131? 132? And I thought that there was only one Graf Zeppelin, and yet it has the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, and the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin links on this site. So, in other words, I’m a bit confused about all of this? I mean, from what I’ve learned so far, wasn’t the Hindenburg the last Zeppelin airship made?

By: Neil Hemstad

Neil Hemstad — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:24:53 +0000

I have always thought of the Graf Zeppelin 2 as the orphan zeppelin. He never got the chance to do the job that he was built for. The transportation of people and cargo over the ocean. I have a couple of questions about it. First why did not Harold Ickes not give the Helium to Eckener even though Eckener explained to him that Germany was not going to use it for military uses. I also was thinking why if the rest of the cabinet was approving the Helium sale to germany then the President just order Ickes to approve of it? It would be interesting to think what would have happened if Germany did find its own supply of Helium. I would think that the Graf Zeppelin 2 would have flown across the atlantic to Brazil and Lakehurst in 1938 and the construction of the LZ 131 and LZ 132 would have continued. But you would have the other possiblity of military uses such as non rigid airships used as mineseekers in world war 2

By: Dan (Airships.net)

Dan (Airships.net) — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:10:13 +0000

It was the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin.