A zeppelin over Zürich


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Zeppelin, 1929

A zeppelin over Zürich, Switzerland.
Photo taken by my grandfather Walter Burkhard in 1929.

Click here or here to see an enlarged picture of the zeppelin.

The original photo is a transparency on a lantern slide, therefore it was difficult for me to scan the picture with a good resolution. In fact, the inscription at the tip of the zeppelin is "Graf Zeppelin" (visible only with a slide projector). In the middle you can see the registration number. From the inscription "Graf Zeppelin" follows that we are dealing with a LZ-127:

LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Statistics

Length

776 feet / 236.53 meters

Diameter

100 feet / 30.48 meters

Gas Volume

3,700,000 cu. feet / 111,000 cu. meters

Engines

Five 550 hp Maybach engines

Maximum Speed

80 mph / 128 km/h

Lifting Gas Type

Hydrogen

Maximum load

30 tons

Maiden flight

September 18, 1928

There were only four landings of the Graf Zeppelin in Switzerland: On November 2, 1929 in Zürich-Dübendorf,
on September 14, 1929 in Geneva-Cointrin and on Oktober 12, 1930 in Bern-Beundenfeld and Basel-Sternenfeld.
Created August 20, 2002. Copyright by Andreas Walter Aste.
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