36.6 | 0.80 | 29
British | R 33--R 34 | 55500 | 59.7 | 37.3 | 0.75 | 28
British | R 36--R 37 | 59500 | 65.0 | 40.0 | 0.80 | 32
German | Schuette-Lanz SL22 | 56000 | 62.5 | 45.2 | 1.36 | 61
-----------+-----------------------+--------+--------+------+------+-----
German | Zeppelin LZ 120 | | | | |
| (Bodensee) | 20000 | 82 | 63.7 | 0.76 | 48
German | Zeppelin LZ 121 | | | | |
| (Nordstern) | 22500 | 78.8 | 61.4 | 0.78 | 48
German | Zeppelin LZ 100 | 56000 | 67.2 | 56.0 | 1.59 | 89
German | Zeppelin LZ 113 | 62200 | 81 | 62.2 | 1.60 | 100
German | Zeppelin LZ 102 | 68500 | 63.7 | 54.4 | 1.90 | 103
-----------+-----------------------+--------+--------+------+------+------
Scientific deductions and formulae to be found in "Zeitschrift fuer
Flugtechnik und Motorluftschiffahrt," June 15th and June 30th, 1920,
issues. Article by P. Jaray.
[PLATE 28: Dr. Max Freiherr von Gemmingen.
Dr. Hugo Eckener
Kommerzienrat Alfred Colsman
Dr. Ing. Ludwig Duerr
Carl Maybach]
CHAPTER II
The Zeppelin Organization at the Time of Its Greatest Activity 1918-1919
The Zeppelin Endowment for the Propagation of Air Navigation
(Zeppelinstiftung zur Foerderung der Luftfahrt) which Count Zeppelin
founded with the subscription fund of 6,000,000 marks presented to him
by the German people in 1908, is administered by a Board of Directors,
of which Baron Max Freiherr von Gemmingen, Zeppelin's nephew, who worked
with him from the start, is Chairman. The other Directors are Baron von
Bassus and Dr. Hugo Eckener.
The Zeppelin Endowment owns Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin (Zeppelin Airship
Building Co.), the construction company organized in 1908 and controls
the "DELAG" organized, as stated before, in 1910 for the operation of
commercial Zeppelins. Interested in the "DELAG" are a number of
financiers, though with all the others, it was under the personal
supervision of Count Zeppelin, and after him the Directorate of the
Zeppelin Endowment.
At the time of the Armistice the construction and operating companies
employed 1,600 persons on their executive and engineering staffs and
12,000 workmen.
Many subsidiary companies were organized and operated, specializing in
the various branches of Zepp
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