Part of my Phantom airship collection. My #inspiration for this piece was the tragic end of the legendary Hindenburg luxury #airship. I wanted to create scenes we might have seen if she were still around today floating peacefully and safely through the skies. This is the view you would have if you were in a boat on the #ocean looking up as the giant #zeppelin passed overhead.
Though unnamed, the timing and the reference to the Graf Zeppelin as its predecessor indicates that this cutaway is of the Hindenburg. It started construction in 1929, and the image is from Popular Mechanics' February 1930 issue
I have a soft spot for Ashlee Vance's "Hello World" documentaries. I just watched the one about the companies working on new, big-ass #airships, and I did enjoy it quite a bit.
Mehrere Generationen meiner Familie arbeiteten für die #Eisenbahn*.
Diese Erzählung stammt von meinem Urgrossvater: Zwischen den Weltkriegen überflog ein #Luftschiff einen Bahnhof der Rhätischen Bahn. Die Passagiere stiegen alle aus dem Zug aus, um das Luftfahrzeug besser sehen zu können. Das führte zu einer grösseren Zugverspätung. Der Zugführer musste später gegenüber der Direktion diese begründen und schrieb in den Bericht: "Verspätung wegen Abwarten einer Kreuzung mit Graf #Zeppelin". #RhB
I have a degree in history, but I still learn things watching #HorribleHistories on iPlayer with my kids. This week I leaned that each#zeppelin needed 250,000 (a quarter of a million) cow intestines for use as gas bags.
As a result, during #WW1, the German authorities banned the production of sausages, to stop the intestines being used for sausage skins. Being a German soldier in the trenches must have been miserable enough before someone took your sausages away.