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Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
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Rare color photos of the Hindenburg show what luxury air travel was like 80 years ago
along with the less famous Graf Zeppelin II. In fact, here's a photo of Business Insider's world headquarters taken from the Graf Zeppelin in 1929. The most well known of the Zeppelin airships was ...
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Pathfinder 1: The airship that could usher in a new age
The last giant rigid airship Graf Zeppelin II flew for the final time on 20 August 1939, 12 days before World War Two started, and was scrapped the following year. Rigid airships have a complex ...
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Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
But Hitler’s Germany did make progress towards building an aircraft carrier. This was the Graf Zeppelin—named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, best known for developing the eponymous airship.