The operator of the zeppelin NT in Japan, the NIPPON AIRSHIP CORPORATION is bankrupt. All operations have been terminated, even the website is no longer online. Let’s hope that the zeppelin is back in the sky soon.
Source: http://www.tdb.co.jp/tosan/syosai/3286.html
NIPPON AIRSHIP CORPORATION website: http://www.nac-airship.com/
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Flying from Frankfurt, Germany to Lakehurst, NJ, USA, zeppelin LZ-129 HINDENBURG carried on the 1st North America Flight 1937 a total of 8 mail bags containing 17,609 cards, covers and parcels. When approaching Lakehurst, the airship burst into flames. Only 368 of the 17,609 postal items were salvaged after the crash, most of them in more or less bad condition.
The illustrated postcard survived the crash and was found in the wreckage of LZ-129 HINDENBURG – the picture side of the card illustrates the good old days of airship travel while parts of the card were burnt. The stamp in the top left corner was washed off another postcard and stuck on this card.
Today, crash covers from the 1937 LZ-129 HINDENBURG disaster are rare collectible items.
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100 years ago, on April 25, 1910, German airship Zeppelin LZ-5, which was also known as military airship Z-II, stranded at Weilburg and was completely destroyed.
Contemporary newspaper reports about that crash can be found here: http://www.weilburg-lahn.info/zeppelin/z2_3.htm
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The Spring2010 issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL is done, a sneak preview is online at http://www.ezep.de/zpj/2010sp.html
The 10th flight season of the Friedrichshafen based Zeppelin NT has started. The Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei operating the airship is expecting the 100.000th Zeppelin NT passenger this year.
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Rare colour footage of the Graf Zeppelin II over Friedrichshafen in 1938, filmed by Goodyear Engineer Harold G. Dick. From the documentary “Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause.” The documentary mistook this footage as color footage of the Hindenburg. This is the only known colour footage of a Zeppelin; the colour footage of the Hindenburg in various video sharing sites was hand-colourized in the 1960s.
This was posted by “Charlie” on MaYoMo, to see the video go to his post: http://www.mayomo.com/74620
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Photo take from the above listed video.
Today (October 26) in 1933, LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin departs Akron for Chicago’s “A Century of Progress” World’s Fair and returns after a brief landing at Chicago.
This is a reminder that application for the international airmail show BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX ends on Saturday, October 10, 2009. This is today or tomorrow, where ever you are at the moment.
If you want to apply for exhibiting at BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX, this is your last chance to apply, so please do it now and online: This is the link http://www.ezep.de/aeropex2009/apply.html which brings you to the online application and gets you also latest information about the show.
Fiorenzo Longhi published an new zeppelin mail catalogue: Zeppelin mail from Italy, Italian Colonies, San Marino and Vatican City from the period 1929 – 1939. This covers the flights of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ-129 Hindenburg and LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II. 972 covers are listed and 730 of them are illustrated. Included is also a price list for all of this material. The book will be presented on October 21, 2009 at ITALIA2009, the international stamp show at Rome, Italy.
Title of the book: CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA – COLONIE ITALIANE – SAN MARINO – VATICANO – 1929 – 1939
Source: http://www.ezep.de/books/books.html
Ordering information will follow in the next days.
The zeppelin NT D-LZZF appears on Swiss air traffic radar http://radar.zhaw.ch/radar.html
If you do not see the zeppelin on your current radar screen, the airship is out of radar contact (probaly on the ground). The attached screen shot from today shows the zeppelin D-LZZF flying south of Meersburg into the direction of Friedrichshafen, cruising along the northern lake shore of Lake Constance.
The other aircrafts are:
LX1105 (in the top right corner): This is the Munich-Zurich flight of Swiss Airlines approaching into Zurich. Flight altitude was apprx. 5.000 meters
AF582 at the bottom, south of Romanshorn: This is Air France flying Paris-Amman at 11.000 meters
LH4051 in the left section south of Radolfzell is Lufthansa fying from Florence to Frankfurt at 9.000 meters.
Nice tool to track the zeppelin without looking out of the window…..
