le LZ120 de l'armée dans le hangar de
Seddin
(location :
54°30'32"N 017°06'52"E
)
à la fin de la guerre.
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Zeppelin LZ90 L.Z.120
le LZ120 de l'armée dans le hangar de
Seddin
(location :
54°30'32"N 017°06'52"E
)
à la fin de la guerre.
Registration : L.Z.120
Class : R
First flight : 31 January 1917
17 reconnaissance missions and 3 attacks dropping 11,250 kilograms (24,800 lb) of bombs around the Eastern Front and the Baltic Sea. After June 1917 handed over from the German army to the German navy. 02/03 September 1917 raid against Londen, came no further then Haverhill ( 52°05’04”N 0°26’06”E ), and accidentally dropped her sub-cloud car near Manningtree (Waltham Abbey) ( 51°56’45”N 1°03’39”E ) before going out to sea. Retired on 8 October 1917. In 1920 ordered to be transferred to Italy as war reparations, where it broke apart one year later while gas was removed.
Sub-cloud car > imperial war museum London
Spy basket
LZ-90's captain, Baron Oberleutnant Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels was the most legendary air-captain of the war. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite (the "Blue Max"), a copy of which was affixed to the control gondola of the zeppelin.
Literature :
Warplanes World War One Page 63,66