Graf Zeppelin under the number LZ-127 was the largest and most advanced airship of its time, and as its history showed, it also turned to be the luckiest one.
There is so much said about the sadly known Hindenburg airship, but Graf Zeppelin, which had an exciting history, is so rarely mentioned. It is necessary to correct this injustice.
This airship was created in 1928 by the German company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH, which stands for Zeppelin airship construction LTD, and took the name after its founder Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. It’s without this person that one can’t simply imagine the “Golden Age” of the airships, and that’s why even today we often say Zeppelins meaning airships, although that’s not quite accurate.
It was supposed to take passenger air travels to a whole new level and it succeeded. Thanks to Graf Zeppelin people learned that constant passenger air travelling between continents was possible.
Graf Zeppelin made the first round-the-world flight in all aviation history, but besides it had many exciting journeys. Now the planes rarely fly over the Pacific Ocean, but Graf Zeppelin managed to cross it almost a hundred years ago!
If you take a look at old photos of the airships from different countries, most likely you’ll see Graf Zeppelin. The airship’s history is also connected with some spy stories and we won’t miss them.
The LZ 127 was in flight for 717 days or almost 2 years, it made 590 flights, and was called "the most successful airship in the world".
Take a look inside the airship's cabin, feel like you are its passenger!

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00:00 Introduction
01:15 Count Fedinand's first flight
02:23 Zeppelin company and world's first airline
03:56 Parameters
05:21 Airframe
07:26 Blau gas
08:27 First intercontinental flight
09:29 Accident over the ocean
10:57 Palestine flight
11:31 Emergency landing
12:08 Round-the-world flight
15:42 Middle East journey
17:27 Polar flight
18:31 Spy story 1
21:23 Spy story 2
22:03 Great Britain journey
22:29 Spy story 3
22:56 South America operation
23:46 NAZY conflict
24:36 Non-stop passenger flight
25:08 Hindenburg tragedy
25:39 Let me show you around its compartments