"LZ 129 Hindenburg LZ 129 ""Hindenburg"" (; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the ""Hindenburg"" class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (""Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH"") on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company (""Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei""). The airship flew from March 1936 until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 6, 1937 while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township,"
"SMS Hindenburg SMS ""Hindenburg"" was a battlecruiser of the German ""Kaiserliche Marine"" (Imperial Navy), the third ship of the , built to a slightly modified design. She carried the same battery of eight guns, but in improved turrets that allowed them to fire further. The ship was also slightly larger and faster than her two sister ships. She was named in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the victor of the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes, as well as Supreme Commander of the German armies from 1916. The ship was the last capital ship"
"Hindenburg (icebreaker) The German icebreaker Hindenburg was built by Stettiner Oderwerke at Stettin-Grabow in 1915 for the Cooperative Merchants' Guild of Stettin (). The ship was launched on15 December 1915 but not completed until 23 December. During the Invasion of Åland in February 1918, the ""Hindenburg"" was part of ""Transportflotte I"" of the ""Sonderverband Ostsee"". The ""Hindenburg"" struck a mine off Eckerö, Åland Islands on 9 March 1918 and sunk at . Three crew members died in the event.:The wreck was found 1995 at 50 meters by diveinstructor Richard Johansson from Maltaproffsen and his crew from Ålands Dykcenter and FF-Dyk."
"Hindenburg (icebreaker) The German icebreaker Hindenburg was built by Stettiner Oderwerke at Stettin-Grabow in 1915 for the Cooperative Merchants' Guild of Stettin (). The ship was launched on15 December 1915 but not completed until 23 December. During the Invasion of Åland in February 1918, the ""Hindenburg"" was part of ""Transportflotte I"" of the ""Sonderverband Ostsee"". The ""Hindenburg"" struck a mine off Eckerö, Åland Islands on 9 March 1918 and sunk at . Three crew members died in the event.:The wreck was found 1995 at 50 meters by diveinstructor Richard Johansson from Maltaproffsen and his crew from Ålands Dykcenter and FF-Dyk."
"scrapped in 1940. LZ 129 Hindenburg LZ 129 ""Hindenburg"" (; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the ""Hindenburg"" class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (""Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH"") on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company (""Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei""). The airship flew from March 1936 until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 6, 1937 while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station"
"23 July 1930, only to be scrapped at Rosyth between 1930 and 1932. Her bell was presented to the ""Bundesmarine"" (Federal Navy) on 28 May 1959. SMS Hindenburg SMS ""Hindenburg"" was a battlecruiser of the German ""Kaiserliche Marine"" (Imperial Navy), the third ship of the , built to a slightly modified design. She carried the same battery of eight guns, but in improved turrets that allowed them to fire further. The ship was also slightly larger and faster than her two sister ships. She was named in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the victor of the Battle of"
"Hansa-Brandenburg CC The Hansa-Brandenburg CC was a single-seat German fighter flying boat of World War I. It was used by both the ""Kaiserliche Marine"" (Imperial German Navy) and the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The Hansa-Brandenburg CC (where the designation CC came from the initials of the financier of the Hansa Brandenburg works, Camillo Castiglioni) was designed by Ernst Heinkel during 1916 for use by the Austro-Hungarian Navy. It was a single engined, single seater flying boat, with a pusher engine mounted between the wings. It had single-bay wings, with the unusual ""Star-Strutter"" arrangement of bracing struts (where four Vee struts joined in"
"Hansa-Brandenburg KDW The Hansa-Brandenburg KDW was a German single-engine, single-seat, fighter floatplane of World War I. The KDW""Kampf Doppeldecker, Wasser"" (Fighter Biplane, Water)was adapted from the Hansa-Brandenburg D.I landplane to provide coastal defence over the North Sea. It was produced under licence by the Austro-Hungarian manufacturer Phönix from 1916 in five batches, with progressively more powerful engines and armament, 58 aircraft in total being produced. In 1916 the Imperial German Navy ordered the production of single-seat armed scout seaplanes (""Jagdeinsitzer Wasser"") to defend its North Sea seaplane stations against air attack. To deliver suitable aircraft quickly, the first designs were"
"Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 The Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 was a German submarine-launched reconnaissance flying boat of the World War I era, designed and built by Hansa-Brandenburg. Due to the need to be stored and launched from a submarine aircraft carrier, the W.20 was a small single-seat biplane flying boat that was designed to be assembled and dismantled quickly. It had a slender hull on which was mounted a biplane wing and a conventional braced tailplane. It was powered by a seven-cylinder, 80 PS Oberursel U.0 rotary engine — basically a German-made near-clone of the Gnome Lambda pre-war French rotary — mounted on struts"
"Brandenburg-class battleship The four ""Brandenburg""-class pre-dreadnought battleships were Germany's first ocean-going battleships. They were also the first German warship, of any type, to be fitted with wireless communications. The class comprised , , , and . All were laid down in 1890 and completed by 1893, except for ""Weissenburg"", which was completed in 1894. The lead ship, ""Brandenburg"", was built at the cost of 9.3 million Marks and ""Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm"" cost 11.23 million Marks. The British Royal Navy derisively referred to the ships as the ""whalers."" ""Brandenburg"" and her three sisters served in a wide range of roles. In"
"1928 President Hindenburg announced the creation of the Hindenburg Cup, awarded annually for the best sporting flight by an amateur pilot with a prize of 10,000 Reichsmarks. Koenig-Warthausen was determined to win the prize and persuaded his parents to buy him a Klemm L.20B. This aircraft, registration number D-1433, which he named ""Kamerad"", was a two-seater low-wing monoplane with an empty weight of only , a top speed of , and powered by an air-cooled, two-cylinder Daimler-Benz F-7502 boxer engine delivering only This aircraft, with its high aspect ratio and very low wing loading, would today be classified as an"
"crossed the English Channel in one in 1785. Rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances. The best known aircraft of this type were manufactured by the German Zeppelin company. The most successful Zeppelin was the Graf Zeppelin. It flew over one million miles, including an around-the-world flight in August 1929. However, the dominance of the Zeppelins over the airplanes of that period, which had a range of only a few hundred miles, was diminishing as airplane design advanced. The ""Golden Age"" of the airships ended on May 6, 1937 when the Hindenburg caught"
"Hindenburg Bridge The Hindenburg Bridge () was a railway bridge over the Rhine between Rüdesheim in the German state of Hesse and Bingen-Kempten state of Rhineland-Palatinate, named in 1918 after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, later German President. The bridge was put in service in 1915, destroyed in the Second World War and never rebuilt. Since 2002 the remains of the Hindenburg bridge has been the easternmost point of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. The bridge was preceded by the Bingerbrück–Rüdesheim train ferry, opened in November 1861, making the first connection between the Nassau"
"town of Zabrze () was also renamed after him in 1915, as well as the SMS ""Hindenburg"", a battlecruiser commissioned in the Imperial German Navy in 1917 and the last capital ship to enter service in the Imperial Navy. The Hindenburg Range in New Guinea, which includes perhaps one of the world's largest cliffs, the Hindenburg Wall, also bears his name. Historian Christopher Clark has criticized Hindenburg in his role as head of state for: ″...withdrawing his solemn constitutional oaths of 1925 and 1932 to make common cause with the sworn enemies of the Republic. And then, having publicly declared"
"Wars, only the Soviet Tupolev ANT-20 ""Maxim Gorki"" landplane of 1934 was larger at 63.00 m (206 ft 9 in) span, but at 53 metric tons maximum takeoff weight it was not as heavy as the Do X's 56 tonnes. The largest airship ever built was the Zeppelin LZ 129 ""Hindenburg"". First flying in 1936, the Hindenburg had a volume of and a length of . Its maximum payload, of combined passengers and freight, was . Following the Hindenburg's disastrous end, no airships of this scale have since been built. By then, larger aeroplanes—especially long-distance flying boats—had exceeded the Ilya"
"that had a variety of applications. A preserved Daimler-Benz DB 602 is on display at the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen. Daimler-Benz DB 602 The Daimler-Benz DB 602 was a German diesel cycle aero engine designed and built in the early 1930s. It was a liquid-cooled upright V16, and powered the two Hindenburg class airships. It has roughly the same displacement and weight of the Beardmore Tornado, which was used in the ill-fated R101, but has almost twice the power of the Tornado, showing Daimler-Benz's superior knowledge regarding diesel engine construction. Also, these engines, under designation MB 502, powered four Schnellboots of"
"SMS Weissenburg SMS ""Weissenburg"" was one of the first ocean-going battleships of the Imperial German Navy. She was the third pre-dreadnought of the , which also included her sister ships , , and . ""Weissenburg"" was laid down in 1890 in the AG Vulcan dockyard in Stettin, launched in 1891, and completed in 1894. The ""Brandenburg""-class battleships were unique for their era in that they carried six large-caliber guns in three twin turrets, as opposed to four guns in two turrets, as was the standard in other navies. ""Weissenburg"" served with the I Division during the first decade of her"
"Habsburg-class battleship The ""Habsburg"" class was a group of pre-dreadnought battleships built by Austria-Hungary at the turn of the 20th century. They were the first sea-going battleship built by Austria-Hungary since the center-battery ship in 1876. The class was composed of three ships: , , and . They were armed with three 24 cm (9.4 in) guns in two turrets and were capable of slightly better than at full speed. ""Habsburg"" and ""Árpád"" were modernized in 1910–11. ""Habsburg"" was launched on 9 September 1900, ""Árpád"" just over a year later on 11 September 1901, and ""Babenberg"" on 4 October 1902."
"nose of the ship was tethered as before to the mast head, which was only a little higher than the semi-diameter of the ship's hull. The lower fin at the stern was then fixed to a heavy carriage running on a circular railway track around the mast, and this carriage was powered so as to be able to move around the track to keep the ship head on to the wind. In the most sophisticated form, used by the Hindenburg, the rail system was linked to rails running from the mast straight into the airship shed, and the mast was"
"Hindenburg light The Hindenburg light or Hindenburglicht, was a source of lighting used in the trenches of the First World War, named after the Commander-in-Chief of the German army in World War I, Paul von Hindenburg. It was also used in World War II in air raid shelters (Luftschutzkeller) or during power cuts, and mandated black outs as emergency lighting. It was a flat bowl approximately diameter and deep. It resembles the cover of Mason jar lid (Schraubglasdeckel) and was made from pasteboard. This flat bowl was filled with a wax-like fat (tallow). A short wick (Docht) in the center"
"Hansa-Brandenburg W.13 The Hansa-Brandenburg W.13 was a flying boat bomber developed in Germany in 1917 and used by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I. It was a largely conventional design for the time, with a single-step hull and an engine mounted pusher-fashion on struts in the interplane gap. The pilot and a gunner sat in tandem open cockpits at the bow. The interplane struts were unusual in that on each side of the aircraft, the upper and lower wings were braced with two pairs of struts that converged from two sets of attachment points on the upper wing to"
"in heavy seas; at conditions above Beaufort sea state 6, this could be up to a 25 percent loss of speed. The ship could not operate under severe weather conditions. Her transverse metacentric height was . Her standard complement consisted of 34 officers and 355 enlisted men, though her crew was later reorganized to 32 officers and 40 enlisted sailors. She carried a number of smaller boats, including one picket boat, one launch, two pinnaces, two cutters, two yawls, and one dinghy. ""Oldenburg"" was powered by two horizontal 4-cylinder double expansion steam engines in separate engine roomes; the two engines"
"Hindenburg in 1937. Following the Hindenburg disaster, the age of the great airships was effectively over. During the late 1920s and early 1930s the available power from aero engines increased significantly, making possible the adoption of the fast cantilever-wing monoplane, originally pioneered as far back as late 1915. The ability to handle the high mechanical stresses imposed by this advanced form of airframe design philosophy suited the all-metal aircraft construction techniques pioneered by some earlier designers, and the increasing availability of high strength-to-weight aluminum alloys — first used by Hugo Junkers in 1916-17 as duralumin for his all-metal airframe designs"
"Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 The Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 was a German biplane fighter floatplane of World War I. It was a development of Ernst Heinkel's previous KDW, adding a rear cockpit for an observer/gunner, and had an unusual inverted tailfin/rudder (which instead of standing up from the fuselage, hung below it) in order to give an uninterrupted field of fire. The W.12s (under the Naval designation C3MG) served on the Western Front, based at the Naval air bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge. The aircraft had some success, and one shot down the British airship C.27. In April 1918, a W.12 made an emergency"
"of that year because of severe vibration, being modified with additional interplane bracing struts. Hansa-Brandenburg CC The Hansa-Brandenburg CC was a single-seat German fighter flying boat of World War I. It was used by both the ""Kaiserliche Marine"" (Imperial German Navy) and the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The Hansa-Brandenburg CC (where the designation CC came from the initials of the financier of the Hansa Brandenburg works, Camillo Castiglioni) was designed by Ernst Heinkel during 1916 for use by the Austro-Hungarian Navy. It was a single engined, single seater flying boat, with a pusher engine mounted between the wings. It had single-bay wings,"
"of the 1975 film ""The Hindenburg"", which speculated sabotage as the cause of the 1937 disaster at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. The studio model of the airship is now displayed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. John-Boy Walton, in the 1977 episode of The Waltons entitled ""The Inferno"", accompanies a news reporter to interview German immigrants after the landing of the Hindenburg. In the 1989 film ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"", Indiana Jones travels on a Zeppelin and escapes in an aircraft mounted by trapeze to the Zeppelin's underside. The 2004"
"as a school ship for the Finnish Navy. During the summer of 1930, the Finnish officials inspected a number of Finnish and foreign ships that were offered for sale. These included Gustav Erikson's four-masted barques ""Pommern"" and ""Herzogin Cecilie"", and several other ships, but all were deemed either too large or too dilapidated. In the end, the most suitable candidate came from Germany where ""Oldenburg"", a 28-year-old former school ship of the German merchant navy, was offered for sale. After inspecting the ship in Bremen, the Finnish officials purchased her in August 1930 and the German crew sailed the ship"
"SMS Oldenburg (1884) SMS ""Oldenburg"" was an armored warship of the German Imperial Navy. Laid down at the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin in 1883, the ship was launched in December 1884 and commissioned into the Navy in April 1886. ""Oldenburg"" was intended to have been a fifth member of the of sortie corvettes, but budgetary limitations and dissatisfaction with the ""Sachsen"" class prompted a redesign that bore little resemblance to the earlier vessels. ""Oldenburg"" mounted her main battery of eight guns amidships, six in a central casemate on the main deck and two directly above them on the broadside."
"""Hindenburg"" (named after former President of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg) made its first flight. The ""Hindenburg"" was the largest airship ever built. It had been designed to use non-flammable helium, but the only supplies of the gas were controlled by the United States, who refused to allow its export. So, in what proved to be a fatal decision, the ""Hindenburg"" was filled with flammable hydrogen. Apart from the propaganda missions, ""LZ 129"" was used on the transatlantic service alongside ""Graf Zeppelin"". On 6 May 1937, while landing in Lakehurst after a transatlantic flight, the tail of the ship caught fire,"
"out of Geestemünde for her owners, H. Bischoff & Co, of Bremen. She was acquired by the ""Kriegsmarine"" in 1940, and entered naval service in November, having been converted into a weather ship, retaining the name ""Lauenburg"". In her new guise she carried a crew of between 19 and 21, as well as eight meteorologists. She was to be used to provide detailed weather reports for naval units, including Germany's U-boat fleet. The British cryptologist Harry Hinsley, then working at Bletchley Park, realised at the end of April 1941 that the German weather ships, usually isolated and unprotected trawlers, were"
"authorization for the ships came as part of a construction program that reflected the strategic and tactical confusion of the 1880s caused by the ""Jeune École"" (Young School). ""Brandenburg"" and her sister ships—, , and —were long, with a beam of and a draft of . The ship displaced as designed, and up to at full combat load. She was equipped with two sets of 3-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engines that produced and a top speed of on trials. Steam was provided by twelve transverse cylindrical water-tube boilers. She had a maximum range of at a cruising speed of"
"one electric lighter was maintained permanently inside the room). Access to Zeppelins was achieved in a number of ways. The Graf Zeppelin's gondola was accessed while the vessel was on the ground, via gangways. The Hindenburg also had passenger gangways that led from the ground directly into its hull and which could then be withdrawn entirely, ground access to the gondola and an exterior access hatch via its electrical room; this was intended for crew use only. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's serious interest in airship development began in 1874, when he took inspiration from a lecture given by Heinrich von"
"Hansa-Brandenburg D.I The Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, also known as the KD (""Kampf Doppeldecker"") was a German fighter aircraft of World War I. Despite poor handling characteristics it was put into service by Austria-Hungary, where some aircraft served until the end of the war. Ernst Heinkel chief designer of the Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeug-Werke developed the KD in 1916 to meet the requirements of the Austro-Hungarian Air Force (""Kaiserliche und Königliche Luftfahrtruppen ""or"" K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen""). It was a single seat, single engined biplane, of wooden construction, with plywood fuselage skinning and fabric wing skins. The wings featured an unusual ""Star-Strutter"" arrangement of"