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Longest airship ever built
245 m
804 ft
- Record holder
- LZ 129 Hindenburg
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What to remember
At 245 m long, LZ 129 Hindenburg is the longest flying machine ever built. The German rigid airship, which entered service in 1936, held 200,000 m³ of gas, a volume it shared with its sister ship, LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II.
It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company in Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance, and operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company (Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei). Filled with hydrogen, it weighed approximately 237.2 tonnes. Built to carry passengers, it flew a regular service between Europe and the United States.
It was named after Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany from 1925. Among large aircraft, whether fixed-wing planes, helicopters or airships, it stands apart: no other flying machine of any kind has matched its length.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of large aircraft” (revision used 1375826316). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: U.S. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Aeronautics. Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)., Photo licensed under Public domain (Wikimedia Commons).
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