Summary and Top 4 Points: The Graf Zeppelin, Germany's first aircraft carrier, was laid down in 1936 but never entered service due to internal disputes, skepticism, and war priorities. -Designed ...

And finally, on the 11th of October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG's operations, began the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights.

The Graf Zeppelin became the first to achieve Eckener’s vision, ferrying thousands of passengers in luxurious accommodations across the Atlantic, mostly between Germany, Argentina, and Brazil.

We located a number of real photographs showing the Graf Zeppelin over the pyramids in Egypt, along with one additional image of the airship specifically journeying over the Great Spinx of Giza.

The around-the-world flight of the hydrogen-filled German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, was one of the biggest news stories of 1929. The craft took off from Lakehurst, N.J., on Aug. 8, 1929, heading ...

It was like a zeppelin mania." Indeed, Grossman said that Hugo Eckener, who had captained both the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg, had one of the most recognized names in the world.

Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German inventor who, in many ways, helped give rise to a wealth of eccentric, brilliant, and sometimes twisted inventors in the later years the country would be ...