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Good catch Rob! You're right, not only that but it has the much smaller control gondola, the top photo is clearly the Graf with that big gondola. The bottom photo also has the Olympic rings on the side to celebrate the 1936 games held in Germany. I missed that before, so that's not a photo taken in 1929 like I thought... obviously.I think it's the Hindenburg. That does have DLZ-129 on the side? Hard to see on my phone.
Did I mention Doctor Hugo Eckener was one of my aviation heroes?
I had been quite a Zeppelinophile.
Was Tin-Tin somehow involved?
Good stuff! There's a lot on dirges destroyed but I was more interested in the "successes". The R-34, R-100, U.S.S. Los Angeles (DLZ-127?), yeah, even U.S.S. Macon. There was something about an aircraft that could just stay aloft forever. Ain't how it worked out.Probably, that little sucker gets around!
Thanks Rob. I met John Pritchard's niece once. She came to the museum I was working at and donated a whole lot of photographs from his personal collection. Pritchard, in case you are not aware was the first person to arrive in the USA by airship (aircraft fullstop) as when R.34 arrived overhead at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, Long Island - now a shopping mall, there was no adequate ground handling team and so he was volunteered to parachute out of the airship to organise this. When he was asked by a reporter what his first impressions of America were, he naturally said "Hard..."
Yep, you're right, R.34 was designed by Admiralty designer C. I. R. Campbell and was based on the wreck of L 33, brought down on the night of 23/24 September 1916 almost intact after being shot at by New Zealander Alfred de Bathe Brandon of 39 Home Defence Sqn RFC. Dimesionally she was exactly the same size as L 33, down to the exact number of frames and gas cells. Her internal gas volume was also identical.
View attachment 662800L33 wreck
R.34's engine and control car layout was copied directly from that of L 49, which had separate cars for each of the engines, except the rear gondola, which in the R Class Zeppelins of which L 33 was, two of the three engines in the rear car drove props mounted on the hull sides via drive shafts, which was deemed inefficient, so the more streamlined fashion of connecting these to a single prop via an RGB was fitted to R.34.
View attachment 662801R.34ef b
Note the bow plate on the airship's nose.
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I digress...
There's a lot on dirges destroyed but I was more interested in the "successes".
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Thank you. For some unknown reason i am curious to the then and now in some pictures. If i get a lead like a name or place i have to search if i can find the modern scene.I really like that you are taking the time to look for the original site today, Snautzer, great effort. Keep it up, it adds real life to the original images.