The Berlin airlift begins.
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SHORT AVIATION STORIES
LZ 129 Hindenburg
Rigid and semi-rigid airships first appeared in the late nineteenth century and were consistently developed in the following decades. Pioneers such as Alberto Santos-Dumont, Count von Zeppelin and Thomas Scott Baldwin transformed the dirigible from […]
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LZ 62 / Zeppelin ´L 30´
Port-side nacelle from Zeppelin ´L 30´ (factory number LZ 62), exhibited at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels (September 2016). Among the many aviation pioneers, Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf […]
SHORT AVIATION STORIES
Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1)
The German flying bomb, initially known as the Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Vengeance Weapon No. 1), was developed in the early 1942 by Fritz Gosslau and Robert Lusser, who at […]