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A Zeppelin is a type of rigi airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, based in part on an earlier design by aviation pioneer David Schwarz. Due to the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the term zeppelin in casual use came to refer to all rigid airships.

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  • People considered this type of ship reliable until the 1930s
  • (Sophia of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Goodyear blimp facility) 2 major types of airships are non-rigid, or blimps, & rigid, also called by this name of a German count
  • In 1932 & '33 one of these airships made a total of 18 trips between Germany & Brazil
  • This German count launched his first airship in 1900
  • Beginning in the 1910s, DELAG, the world's first airline, offered service in Germany aboard this type of airship
  • In the 1st raid of its kind in history, the British town of Yarmouth was bombed in 1915 by a German one of these
  • The Schutte-Lanz company also made dirigibles in Germany, but it was this company whose airships terrorized London

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