2-369-411 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Zeppelin LZ3 airborne, Germany, c1906-1908 (1933). LZ3 was the first truly successful Zeppelin. The airship made 45 flights, travelling more than 4000 kilometres, between 1906 and 1908 before being purchased by the army. The airship's floating hangar can be seen in the left background. A photograph from Zeppelin-Weltfahrten, Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des LZ127 Graf Zepplin 1932, Dresden, 1933.