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Zeppelin
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thumb|right|The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)|USS Los Angeles, a [[United States Navy airship built in Germany by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin (Zeppelin Airship Company) ]]
The USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship (also called a zeppelin) built by a German company for the United States Navy. It represents an important example of early aviation technology and international cooperation between the U.S. and Germany in the 1920s-1930s era of airship development.
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28 sectionsContents
- Principal characteristics
- History
- Early designs
- Before World War I
- During World War I {{anchor|WW1|WWI}}
- 1914–1918 naval patrols
- Bombing campaign against Britain
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
- Technological progress
- End of the war
- After World War I
- Renaissance
- Golden age
- ''Hindenburg'', the end of an era
- Cultural influences
- Modern era
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- Danish Post & Tele Museum Zeppelin articles
- Patents
- External links
thumb|right|The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)|USS Los Angeles, a [[United States Navy airship built in Germany by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin (Zeppelin Airship Company) ]]
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin () who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's notions were first formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They were patented in Germany in 1895 and in the United States in 1899. After the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the word zeppelin came to be commonly used to refer to all forms of rigid airships. Zeppelins were first flown commercially in 1910 by Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG), the world's first airline in revenue service. By mid-1914, DELAG had carried over 10,000 fare-paying passengers on over 1,500 flights. During World War I, the German military made extensive use of Zeppelins as bombers and as scouts. Numerous bombing raids on Britain resulted in over 500 deaths.