The weekly UPI Almanac package for July 3-9, 2006. Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (also known as Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, Graf Zeppelin and in English, Count Zeppelin) (8 ...

The Zeppelin name is returning to lighter-than-air transport with two new dirigibles designed for the 21st Century. The company founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin did not disappear after the ...

Here by Lake Constance, Count Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von Zeppelin flew the first craft to carry his name in 1900. Before World War II, his floating dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Storied ...

the notion of using the 150-year-old technology in defense of the United States seems as impossible as Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's dream of using his cumbersome creations as fighting machines.

Air authorities gave the Zeppelin, named Bodensee, final approval on Tuesday, after it had already been certified for production by Germany's Federal Air Traffic Office. Count Ferdinand von ...

Born into German nobility in 1838, Ferdinand von Zeppelin attended an engineering college and then joined the German army. During the U.S. Civil War, he was sent to Virginia to serve as an ...

It was from an airship disaster from 1937. In the early 1900s, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin founded Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, a company that made rigid airships that came to be referred to as zeppelins.

Here’s a brief history of Cherry: 1891 – Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin resigns from the German army in order to build airships 1915 – Von Zeppelin sets up ZF Group to make gears for airships, which ...

Ever since Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin served his guests turtle bouillon, lamb chops and champagne on the world’s first international passenger flight in 1912, on-board catering has been key to ...