A Zeppelin Cigar from a friend!
The wonderful and generous Joe May from the Travel for Aircraft blog sent me a delightfully unexpected gift: a zeppelin cigar. It is specifically a…
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Happy Thanksgiving
Werner Doehner, last Hindenburg survivor, has died at age 90
Expanded, revised edition of “Zeppelin Hindenburg” now available for pre-order
Anyone want to buy a blimp?
AIRSHIPS: Designed for Greatness
Museum Edition now available in USA
An investment not to be missed
The “Votes For Women” Airship – 1909
Another photograph of Count von Zeppelin in the United States
A photograph of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin during the American Civil War
This plate from Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War shows Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin among a group of Union officers outside the Fairfax Courthouse…
This is NOT a photograph of Count Zeppelin during the Civil War
Over the years, many books, articles, and websites — including, until now, this one — have described the following image as a photograph of Count Ferdinand…
Nice little video about the end of airship travel
A generally well-made video about the end of airship travel. I wish they had not sanitized history by censoring the flag on LZ-129’s fins, and…
Happy New Year 2018!
Happy New Year to all airship lovers, helium-heads, and the world. Glückliche Fahrt im neuen Jahr!
The Rocketeer and the Zeppelin “Luxembourg”
I recently had the pleasure of discussing airships as a guest host on The Rocketeer Minute, a podcast that devotes a segment to each minute of…
Joyeuse Fête Nationale!
Remembering French airships and wishing all our friends in France a very happy Fête Nationale!
Physics ruins all our Fun: Luxury airship edition
This “concept airship” by Dassault keeps showing up on the interwebs, so I did some quick math to calculate the weight of the water in that…
100th Anniversary of Count Zeppelin’s Death
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin died 100 years ago today, on March 8, 1917. In good health despite his 78 years, Zeppelin had traveled to Berlin…
Cool Graf Zeppelin T-shirt available
This very cool T-shirt celebrating Graf Zeppelin‘s 1929 Round-the-World flight is available on Amazon.com. I asked Kirk McGinnis, who created the shirt, to explain what inspired him. Kirk…
Happy Birthday, Hindenburg – March 4, 1936
Today is the anniversary of the airship Hindenburg’s first flight.
Burned mail from Hindenburg crash to be auctioned
A partially burned postcard recovered from the wreckage of the Hindenburg disaster will be offered for sale at the Felzmann zeppelin mail auction on March 9, 2017,…