R-100 Airship at RNAS Station

Howden, Yorkshire

1929

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Human Dragonfly

See & Air Exhibition, Tokyo
1930

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or in Tome's gallery @ Dieselpunks.org

General Electric Building, New York

Photo by zio Paolino @ Flickr

Hindenburg: 74 years ago

LZ-129 Hindenburg was 803.8 feet long, with a diameter of 135.1 feet, and a total gas capacity of 7,062,000 cubic feet of hydrogen.
LZ-129 and its sister ship, LZ-130, are still the largest objects ever to fly.
Hindenburg was completed with the financial support of the Nazi government, and the ship’s first flight took place on March 4, 1936, lasting 3 hours and 6 minutes.
Over the next two weeks the ship made several additional test flights, performing well in all ways, and on March 23, 1936 Hindenburg carried passengers for the first time when she took approximately 80 reporters on the short flight from Friedrichshafen to Lowenthal.

Read full article @ Airships.net

Black & Green

Artist: Franz Lenhart
c. 1930

IWC Video ft. John Malkovich

A must!

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Medium Machine Gun

Czechoslovak Army Schwarzlose-Janeček vz.07/12/24 7.92mm MG - a minor upgrade of the Austrian (German-designed) 8mm Schwarzlose M.07/12

1924