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Finally, on the 11th of October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG’s operations, ...

Summary and Top 4 Points: The Graf Zeppelin, Germany’s first aircraft carrier, was laid down in 1936 but never entered service due to internal disputes, skepticism, and war priorities.

Just past the museum entrance is a bust of the namesake airships ... with models of the Hindenburg, the Graf Zeppelin and others hanging overhead. Among them is the LZ 126, a passenger dirigible ...

The Hindenburg, along with its highly successful predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, made numerous trans-Atlantic crossings in their brief but illustrious careers. Constructed out of an aluminum alloy ...

Film which uses the letters and diaries of passenger Lady Grace Drummond-Hay and archival footage to document the Graf Zeppelin airship's circumnavigation of the globe in 1929. Show more In 1929 ...

The Graf Zeppelin company, operators of the Hindenburg, had begun searching for a zeppelin base further inland than Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which served as the arrival point for zeppelins ...