95 Years Ago this Month
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https://www.popsci.com/technology/graf-zeppelin/
..in 1929, the Graf Zeppelin—also known by its serial number LZ-127, which stood for Luftschiff (“airship”) and the name of its creator, Ferdinand von Zeppelin—was still in the early days of its pre-Nazi chapter. On August 29, 1929, it became the first human-made craft to circumnavigate the globe by air, using Lakehurst, NJ as the port where its American journey began and ended. (The trip was strategically planned with a transatlantic overlap that allowed Germany to claim the flight had begun and ended in Freidrichshafen—the airship’s home port.)
Also included in the link is the original 1929 article about the flight.
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