THE ZEPPELIN THE TEMPTABLE GUN

Greetings my steemianos and good to all the community, for today les, I bring remembering the history of the aircraft "EL ZEPPELÍN", as one of the wonders of German engineering, was used as a weapon dominate the skies while manufacturing the first war planes.

The best known was The LZ 129 Hindenburg and ll, the largest aircraft ever built, interestingly his name is due to honor, President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg, what interests me as he did to maintain his statics, is due to his ability 200 000 m³ of hydrogen gas, outside a synthetic cover insulating any current, to avoid any accident of a fire, including static, in its journey in the air came to develop reached a maximum speed of 135 km / h . it was possible to create a larger model that was "The Hindenburg" was longer than three Boeing 747, which seems to them the immense ship.

Because it was a fearsome weapon due to its static in the air reigned in the skies without being detected and more at night in the first world war, which lacked radar technology, that's why this aircraft was effective, on January 19, 1915 Two German airships bombed coastal cities for the first time in southeastern England, good was their vulnerability to airplanes and artillery relegated to observation tasks.

But just as it was a very implacable weapon, I did not know that it existed for the date of July 2, 1900, an aircraft 128 meters long, designed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), made its first takeoff, that's why this giants of the air were indications of the nascent air force as the German navy had several units of zeppelins; they were weapons of tactics some of bombers, of recognition and observation of the enemy, Belgium and France were visited by this colossus of the airs, France made the decision to arm his first brigade of airplanes as against attacks, in such way the Kaiser Wilhelm II approved to realize an air campaign against English strategic objectives, excluding residential areas and civil buildings without military value such as royal palaces or museums, the unusual thing that could not be tolerated because on January 19 two zeppelins, the L3 and L4, launched 50 kilos of explosives and about 3 kilograms of incendiary bombs in Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, and other populations, that devastating, the death of so many innocent people only for the supremacy to govern other nations to impose their nationalism.

The strategies were used at night and if there was fog to use camouflage, and silent, as if it were not enough. The most destructive incursions of the fleet of zeppelins were made during the year 1915. The deadliest, on the night of 13 to 14 October, using five blimps.

For the years 1936 to 1939 they were used as a means of commercial transport until the beginning of the Second World War, which gave me curiosity that one was used in honor at the Olympic Games in Berlin as a ceremony, in 1936, authorized by Adolf Hitler .

Finally very tragic accident of the zeppelin "The Hindenburg", there was a thunderstorm and the air was electrically charged and this ship was set on fire in the city of New Jersey, dying all its crew that happened in 1936.

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Text of the First World War day by lan westwel.

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