![]() ![]() Graf Zeppelin made it through the second storm, even with the temporary repairs to the damaged fin, and reached the American coast on the morning of October 15th. The emergency repairs were successful, but the ship encountered a second squall front near Bermuda. The damaged port fin after arrival at Lakehurst (view from floor of hangar) The ship lifted off at 3:32 PM and flew a little over three hours before returning to its base in Friedrichshafen.Ī series of successful test flights followed, including a 34-1/2 hour endurance flight during which the new German ship was shown off to the residents of Ulm, Nuremberg, Wurzburg, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bremen, Hugo Eckener’s hometown of Flensburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden. Graf Zeppelin made its first flight on September 18, 1928, under the command of Hugo Eckener. Graf Zeppelin circled the globe and was famous throughout the world, and inspired an international zeppelin fever in the late 1920s and early 1930s. (click all photos to enlarge)Ĭertainly the most successful zeppelin ever built, LZ-127 was christened “Graf Zeppelin” by the daughter of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin on July 8, 1928, which would have been the late count’s 90th birthday.īy the time of Graf Zeppelin’s last flight, nine years later, the ship had flown over a million miles, on 590 flights, carrying thousands of passengers and hundreds of thousands of pounds of freight and mail, with safety and speed. ![]() Christening of LZ-127 on Jby Countess Helene von Brandenstein-Zeppelin. ![]()
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