LZ 35

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The Zeppelin LZ 35 was the 35th airship of Count Zeppelin and the sixteenth airship of the German army .

history

The first trip from LZ 35 took place on January 11, 1915.

LZ 35 did not get its own army identification, but drove under its construction number LZ 35 with the German land forces.

LZ 35 was mainly used on the western front. At the beginning of March 1915, the airship was moved from its Cologne location to its new location, the airship hangar in Gontrode near Ghent .

On the night of March 20-21, 1915, LZ 35 attacked Paris . From a height of 2400 meters, the zeppelin dropped 820 kg bombs on the city. After a journey of 11 ½ hours, the airship landed again in Gontrode with 80 bullets.

End of LZ 35

In an attack on Poperinge near Ypres , LZ 35 dropped 1.6 tons of bombs and received 700 hits itself. The ship had to make an emergency landing at Aeltre between Bruges and Ghent and was destroyed there by a storm.

Technical specifications

  • Carrying gas volume: 22,500 m³ hydrogen
  • Length: 158.0 m
  • Diameter: 14.90 m
  • Payload: 9.2 t
  • Drive: three Maybach engines, each 210 hp (154 kW)
  • Speed: 22.4 m / s

See also

literature

  • Peter Meyer: Airships - The History of the German Zeppelins. Wehr & Wissen, Koblenz / Bonn 1980.