Graf Zeppelin navigator Max Prüß uses a sextant to find a Sun line of position during a record-setting, around-the-world flight in 1929. (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) It was ...

The airship Graf Zeppelin is shown at Mines Field (now Los Angeles International Airport) on Aug. 26, 1929. Two days later, the Graf flew over Iowa on its way to Chicago before finishing its ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first-class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelins constructed, the most famous ...

The cards and letters aboard the Graf Zeppelin bore a distinctive mark on their envelopes: a small image stamped in ink. National Postal Museum, SI On December 8, 1934, the dirigible Graf ...

LAX. Thousands of spectators jammed Mines Field on Aug. 26, 1929, 20 years before the airfield officially became known as Los Angeles International Airport. The occasion: the arrival of the Graf ...

Key Point: Berlin may have dreamed of being a naval airpower, but it never happened. Thank goodness the Nazi carrier suffered from a wide variety of problems. From the first days of his ascension to ...

The project aims to make readers experience the 1929 adventure through the testimony of one of its passengers and images of the golden age of zeppelins. On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British ...

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