Comments on: Graf Zeppelin History

By: Gordon Cowley

Gordon Cowley — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:04:39 +0000

What happened to the comment that i posted on the Chicago Worlds Fair Graf Zeppelin flight ? I have since found out that the badge is an erzatz copy not the real thing.

By: Gordon Cowley

Gordon Cowley — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:05:22 +0000

I have just purchased a Graf Zeppelin badge dated 1933. It seems to have been produced for the Chicago World Fair and the 1933 Graf Zeppelin flight, Europe, South America, Chicago and on to Europe. It is marked as follows. Maker Kerbach of Dresden (on the reverse), Nord-u.Sudamerika, Jubilaumsfahrt 1933 on the front. The badge is a horizontal oval with the wording in a yellow band around the outside, There is a light blue sky and a dark blue sea with waves, The Graf Zeppielin is a separate piece of silver metal stuck on the badge in the sky area. Is it rare ? Was it carried from Germany to Rio de Janiero and on to the Word’s Fair and sold there ? If not, was it sold at Chicago and how did it get there ?

Gordon Cowley of Oz.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:01:23 +0000

Probably October 26, 1933.

By: Linda B

Linda B — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:25:44 +0000

Hi Jan,

I remember watching a slide show at my local photo club in Keynsham about 12 years ago and we were shown a slide of an airship over Bristol near Castle Park in the 1930s I have also been searching for which airship it was. All I remember was the swazstika on the tail fin. I will keep researching it as I found it fascinating. Even though what happened over 70 years ago was not nice I still think the Zeppelin and Hindenburg are beautiful creations.

Linda

By: Airship127

Airship127 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:24:51 +0000

Dan,
I am a zeppelin enthusiast, and am overjoyed to have access to your detailed, and exciting website. Thank you.

By: Jan Pegler

Jan Pegler — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:53:04 +0000

We were amazed to find this site. My Dad who was born in 1923 was just telling me that when he was about 5(ish) he saw an airship over Bristol. Can you tell me which one it is likely to be plase. Dad thinks it was the Graf Zeppelin.

By: D Jones

D Jones — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:08:12 +0000

I came to your site whilst reseaching after my father told me of the time he was called out of his home in the forest of Dean by my grandfather to see a massive airship flying overhead. He remembers this being around 1935 so I’m guessing that he also witnessed the Hindenburgh. Thank you for helping me find out the information and for a facinating website.

By: Mitch Kaba

Mitch Kaba — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:10:29 +0000

I recently acquired a reel of 16mm film documenting the transatlantic flight of the Graf Zeppelin. I haven’t been able to find any information about this film and am Guessing it might be quite rare. Here is a picture of the box it came in. I’m planning to have it digitized soon so that the images will be preserved.

By: Ron Highcock

Ron Highcock — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:26:55 +0000

I was born in 1930 and was impressed by an Airship I saw cruising slowly near my grandparents’ home on the outskirts of St.Helens, Lancashire. My guess is that it was sometime in the period 1935 to 1937. I have assumed the craft was the Hindenburg or could it have been the Graf Zeppelin?
Thank you for the excellent articles on this site.

By: A.J. "Bud" Baden

A.J. "Bud" Baden — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:39:34 +0000

In 1929 I was about 5 years old and early one August morning my father got me out of bed and in my pajamas he held me up to see the Graf Zepplin hanging overhead with its engines idling in a low rumble. I would guess that it was only about 2 or 3 hundred feet overhead and I recall it extended for about 3 of our city blocks in Independence, Kansas, where I lived at the time. Our local paper in Southeast Kansas had been following its round the world flight and predicted its arrival.

I will never forget this experience and I’ve wondered if there are any pictures in the German Zepplin Museum where perhaps pictures of a US town named “Independence” might have been taken that morning.