LZ 15

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The Zeppelin LZ 15 was Count Zeppelin's fifteenth airship and the fifth airship of the German army .

history

LZ 15 made its first voyage on January 16, 1913. It was taken over by the army under the identifier: Ersatz ZI for the airship ZI , which had been scrapped due to obsolescence .

Its location as an army airship was Baden-Oos . It made 33 trips.

End of LZ 15 / replacement ZI

Due to a strong headwind, the airship could no longer reach its home port of Baden-Oos on March 19, 1913 after a twenty-hour journey and had to make an emergency landing near Karlsruhe due to a lack of petrol. Captain Horn landed on the parade ground at around 3:30 p.m. (today Karlsruhe's old airfield ). At around 5:00 p.m., the wind pushed the anchored tip of the airship to the ground in such a way that its structure shattered. The operating team of the local telegraph battalion and the airmen were able to leave the gondolas without personal injury. Engines and instruments were recovered intact. The rest of the ship was completely destroyed.

Technical specifications

  • Carrying gas volume: 22,500 m³ hydrogen
  • Length: 158.0 m
  • Diameter: 14.90 m
  • Payload: 9.5 t
  • Drive: three Maybach engines of 165 hp each
  • Speed: 21.2 m / s

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Koch: From the parade field to the airstrip - the airfields Karlsruhe and Forchheim. In: Manfred Koch, Jürgen Morlok (eds.): From grass runways to Baden-Airport. Aviation in Mittelbaden. Brown. Karlsruhe 1999, ISBN 3-7650-8231-7 , p. 71 f.

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