The dream wasn’t so easily snuffed out in this town of 56,500. Friedrichshafen, which was put on the map by Count von Zeppelin and now holds title to the companies that made up his industrial ...

The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany, features a full-size replica of the Hindenburg's starboard section. The town and Lake Constance are also enjoyable.

Zeppelin-Dornier-Combination - An Aviation Enthusiast's Dream The Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen and the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen offer aviation enthusiasts a combined ticket. With this ticket, ...

I read in the museum booklet that Goodyear also had a hand in the revival of zeppelins in the 1990s by a Friedrichshafen maker of semi-rigid airships known as the Zeppelin NT.

WHERE TO STAY Buchhorner Hof (011- 49-75-41-2050, https://www.buchhorn.de) is around the corner from the railroad station and a 15-minute amble along Lake Constance from the Zeppelin Museum.

The Hindenburg – an amazing 245 metres long – was built at Friedrichshafen. The beautiful old town centre, on the very edge of Lake Constance, is mostly a restoration because of intense ...

Friedrichshafen became the cradle for German industrial history. In the 1930s zeppelins carried passengers and mail across the Atlantic. Some 140 flights were made to the US by commercial airships.

As for the chassis, that too was at the Zeppelin museum in Friedrichshafen. It's a tubular construction with a leaf-sprung solid axle out back and a coil-sprung front independent design.