Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel?
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
This zeppelin, named after the German pioneer of airships, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, operated commercially between 1928 and 1937. Delivery of mail, pasted with specially designed air-mail rate zeppelin stamps, helped to fund the development and expansion of lighter-than-air travel.
Zeppelins completed trips around the world, over the north pole, and many transatlantic crossings, before the fateful day that brought an era of air travel to a close. Strangely, the Count von Zeppelin may yet drive the start of a new era of lighter-than-air craft, but more on that later.
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