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Zeppelin LZ69 L 24

control cabin of Zeppelin LZ69

First flight : 20 May 1916

Class : Q

19 reconnaissance missions around the North Sea; 4 raids on England dropping 8,510 kg (18,760 lb) f bombs; crashed into a wall while being taken into its hangar on 28 December 1916 and burned out together with LZ 53 .

Zeppelin LZ69 L24 taken out of its shed

Length : 178.4 [m] diam. 18.7 [m] gas volume : 117438 [m3] gas cells : 18 Gondolas : 2 Vmax : 92.2 [km/h] payload : 18280 [kg] empty weight : 23315 [kg] engines : 4x Maybach HSLu of 240 hp each

Commander : Kptlt Robert Koch

Wreckage of the burned out Zeppelin LZ 69 in its hangar

Wreckage of LZ69 in its hangar

Literature :

Wikipedia

Zeppelin Museum Tonder