Zeppelin History - From First Rigid Airships to NT Airships
Zeppelins flew the skies for only a short period of time but something in them doesn’t let us to forget them. They talk about not just science but about people too. Maybe we should listen what they have to say. Read more about rigid airship history.
A rigid airship is a type of airship that maintains its shape even when there is no pressure of the lifting gas that should hold it in the air. First ideas for rigid airships appeared at the end of the 19th century. Read fun and interesting facts about rigid airships.
What are the most important moments in zeppelin history? Find out in zeppelin timeline from first rigid airships from the beginning of the 1900s to the end of the 1930s, when the Hindenburg caught fire on May 6, 1937.
The Zeppelin NT (New Technology) is a famous class of a semi-rigid helium-filled airships which is being manufactured since the 1990s by the German company Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH. There is a notable differences between the Zeppelin NT and the airships of the first third of the 20th century.