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Zeppelin LZ60 LZ90
First flight : 1 January 1916
Class : P
4 attacks on Bar-le-Duc , Norwich , London and Étaples , dropping 8,860 kg (19,530 lb) of bombs. On 22 October 1916 LZ90 was seen flying over The Netherlands. It was returning to its base at Koln after a raid on Le Touquet when it suffered from engine failure. From Aken it was blown by winds over Limburg. It was seen at Gorinchem, Arkel, Leerdam, Maurik, Rhenen and Wageningen after which it was able to return to Germany.
First flight of LZ60
On 7 November 1916 broke loose without crew after the landing in Wittmundhaven in a storm and blown out to sea and was never seen again .
Length : 163.5 [m] diam. 18.7 [m] volume : 31900 [m3] useful load : 16200 [kg]
Engines : 4x 240 [hp] Maybach speed : 97 [km/hr]
Literature :
Das grosse Luftschiffbuch page 90