Zeppelin LZ19

Spy basket replica of LZ 19, the seventh airship built for the German army in 1913. It was lowered up to a mile under the airship below the clouds. The occupant phoned in when to drop bombs. This spy basket is on display at the Aeronauticum museum, in Nordholz, Germany

Class : H

First flight : 6 June 1913

Damaged beyond repair after a forced landing 13 April 1914 near Diedenhofen due to a thunderstorm.

Length : 140 [m] diameter : 14.9 [m] volume : 19500 [m3]

Engines : 3x Maybach 165 PS

Notes :

According what I can find on internet, the first experiments with a spy basket was with LZ26 Z XII, first flight dec.1914 so then it is not possible LZ19 had a spy gondola..

Below story is from : Airship not Airship - Page 5 (theaerodrome.com)

One way to celebrate your love of airships is to eat them. This is a photo of bangers and mash - basically sausages and mashed potatoes - and quite typical of what would have been served up in UK pubs and cafes a century ago. This dish, however, was also known as  Zepps in a Cloud .

The term was first used in 1909 (in Australia of all places), became more popular during the first World War, but then fell into disuse:

In fact, you can do wurst. In 1909, a Frankfurt am Main butcher called Stephan Weiss came up with the idea of branding his sausages as  Zeppelinwurst . He was able to get endorsement from Graf Zeppelin himself. Amazingly, over 110 years later, these sausages are still being produced.

You can also buy  Zeppelinwurst  in a container. In this context, it's a reminder that during WWI Germany had temporarily banned butchers from producing sausages, since the cow intestines that they would have normally used, as sausage casings, were instead diverted towards airship manufacturers. They needed the material to make the goldbeater skins that their airships' internal gasbags were then constructed from.

Another way to celebrate the airship at meal time is by having some  Cepelinai . Yes, they're named after the Zeppelin. They're large potato dumplings, shaped like an airship, with fillings made from ground-up meat and normally served with toppings and sour cream.

Cepelinai  are a Lithuanian specialty, and have been described as being their national dish. High status then, and a reflection of just how much cultural influence Zeppelins must have had a century ago.

Wikipedia - Cepelinai

Lithuanian Cepelinai - recipe

Cepelinai for Beginners - recipe

Literature :

Airship not Airship - Page 5 (theaerodrome.com)

Das grosse Luftschiffbuch page 73,74

List of Zeppelins - Wikipedia