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Zeppelin LZ10 Schwaben

First flight : 26 June 1911

Operator : DELAG

Class : F

LZ10 carried 1,553 passengers in 218 commercial flights.

It was taken in service on 16 July 1911 and was the first commercially successful passenger aircraft in history.

Length : 140.2m diameter : 14m gasvolume : 17800 m3

Engines : 3x 145hp Maybach engines Max.speed : 76 km/h

Passengers : 20 crew : 13 range : 1400 km

On 28 June 1912 the Schwaben caught fire after a strong gust tore it from its moorings near Düsseldorf , injuring some of the ground handling party.

The remains of the Schwaben

Literature :

Wikipedia

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