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Oberschleißheim - Zeppelin NT
This is a Zeppelin NT, D-LZFN, named "Friedrichshafen", landing at the landing field at the Flugwerft Schleißheim, an outpost of the Deutsches Museum dedicated to aeronautics and the history of Schleißheim airfield.
This is a semi-rigid airship, not a blimp. The Zeppelin NT family of airships belong to the largest active airships and are currently the only ones with a rigid inner structure (the original Zeppelin airships did also have a rigid outer structure).
The airship caught here, D-LZFN is not the first prototype of the Zeppelin NT family, this here is the former D-LZZR which was sold to Japan in 2004 and after return to Germany in 2011 it was re-registered as D-LZFN.
The original D-LZFN was the first prototype, christened on the name "Friedrichshafen" on July 2nd, 2000 by Elisabeth Veil, the at that time 80-year old granddaughter of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. the inventor of the rigid airships. That airship suffered tornado damage in 2007 and was dismantled, so the registration became available again.
Just the day after D-LZFN dropped by, D-LZNT, a sister ship, was also at Schleißheim airfield.
Here is a shot of D-LZZF, another sister ship, taken some time ago at the same airfield.
Schleißheim airfield is the oldest still operating airfield in Germany. It was founded in 1912 for the Königlich-Bayerische Fliegertruppe (Royal Bavarian Flying Corps).
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Oberschleißheim - Zeppelin NT
This is a Zeppelin NT, D-LZFN, named "Friedrichshafen", landing at the landing field at the Flugwerft Schleißheim, an outpost of the Deutsches Museum dedicated to aeronautics and the history of Schleißheim airfield.
This is a semi-rigid airship, not a blimp. The Zeppelin NT family of airships belong to the largest active airships and are currently the only ones with a rigid inner structure (the original Zeppelin airships did also have a rigid outer structure).
The airship caught here, D-LZFN is not the first prototype of the Zeppelin NT family, this here is the former D-LZZR which was sold to Japan in 2004 and after return to Germany in 2011 it was re-registered as D-LZFN.
The original D-LZFN was the first prototype, christened on the name "Friedrichshafen" on July 2nd, 2000 by Elisabeth Veil, the at that time 80-year old granddaughter of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. the inventor of the rigid airships. That airship suffered tornado damage in 2007 and was dismantled, so the registration became available again.
Just the day after D-LZFN dropped by, D-LZNT, a sister ship, was also at Schleißheim airfield.
Here is a shot of D-LZZF, another sister ship, taken some time ago at the same airfield.
Schleißheim airfield is the oldest still operating airfield in Germany. It was founded in 1912 for the Königlich-Bayerische Fliegertruppe (Royal Bavarian Flying Corps).
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.