Covers Zeppelin 1929 Graf Airship USA Germany LZ 127 Interrupted Flight World

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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #127; Registration: D-LZ 127) was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was a Graf or Count in the German nobility. During its operating life, the airship made 590 flights covering more than a million miles (1.6 million km). It was designed to be operated by a crew of 36 officers and men.

Boardpost (Postal Cancel on board the Graf Zeppelin Airship), authentic and a part of history!!!

Flight The \"interrupted flight\" (1929)

Although the Graf Zeppelin ultimately had a safe and highly successful active career lasting nearly nine years, it also came close to being lost just seven months after its maiden flight while attempting to make its second trip to the United States in May 1929. Shortly after dark on May 16, the first night of the flight (\"1. Amerikafahrt 1929\"), the airship lost power in two of its five engines while over the Mediterranean off the southwest coast of Spain forcing Eckener to abandon the trip and turn back toward Friedrichshafen. Flying against a stiff headwind up the Rhône Valley in France the next afternoon, two of the remaining three engines also failed resulting in a loss of headway and the Graf being pushed backwards toward the sea.

With Eckener desperately looking for a suitable place to force-land the airship, the French Air Ministry reluctantly advised him that he would be permitted to land at the Naval Airship Base at Cuers-Pierrefeu about 10 miles (16 km) from Toulon. There the Graf Zeppelin would be kept in the hangar which had once housed the Dixmude, the former German Navy Zeppelin LZ 114 and later the LZ-121, Nordstern, a small commercial airship which the Allies had awarded to France and operated until 1926 as the \"Mediterranee.\" Although barely able to control the Graf Zeppelin on its one remaining engine, Eckener managed to make a difficult but successful emergency night landing at Cuers.

After temporary repairs, the Graf finally returned to Friedrichshafen on May 24 where the engines were completely overhauled. Mails carried on the flight received a one-line rubber stamped notice in German reading \"Beförderung verzögert wegen Abbruchs der 1. Amerikafahrt.\" (\"Delivery delayed due to cancellation of the 1st America trip\") and were held at Friedrichshafen until August 1, 1929, when the airship made another attempt to Cross the Atlantic for Lakehurst, arriving on August 4. Four days later, the Graf Zeppelin departed Lakehurst for its most daring and famous trip — a four-leg complete circumnavigation of the globe.

Flight United States, Ohio to Germany, May 16, 1929 Amerikafahrt

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