Historic Airships

Published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; artist Peter W.M. Griffin. Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m2.
Size: c. 34 cm x 24 cm (13½″ x 9½″) but size may vary slightly.  Images shown are scans.
6 prints show 2 airships.
Prints are STANDARD size. Shipping cost is the same for up to 10 prints of the largest size in an order – see Shipping and Returns

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  • Giffard Steam Dirigible, 1852

    Giffard Steam Dirigible, 1852

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    Giffard Steam Dirigible: The first powered and steerable (French: dirigeable) airship to fly (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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  • Renard-Krebs, 'La France', 1884

    Renard-Krebs, ‘La France’, 1884

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    Renard-Krebs, ‘La France’: The first full round-trip flight of an airship with a landing at the starting point (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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  • Lebaudy, 'Le Jaune', 1902

    Lebaudy, ‘Le Jaune’, 1902

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    Lebaudy, ‘Le Jaune’, 1902′: The first practical airship that was aquired and developed by a military entity  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

     

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  • Schwarz No. 2, 1897

    Schwarz No. 2, 1897

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    Schwartz No.2: The first airship with a rigid structure to be tested in flight  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

     

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  • (a) Zeppelin LZ1<br>(b) Naval Airship No. 1 'Mayfly'

    (a) Zeppelin LZ1
    (b) Naval Airship No. 1 ‘Mayfly’

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    (a) Zeppelin LZ1:  the first truly successful experimental rigid airship
    (b) Naval Airship No. 1 ‘Mayfly’: British experiment based on the Zeppelin
     (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

     

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  • (a) Zeppelin LZ10 'Schwaben'<br>(b) Schutte-Lanz SL1

    (a) Zeppelin LZ10 ‘Schwaben’
    (b) Schutte-Lanz SL1

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    (a) Zeppelin LZ10: first rigid to be flown for a lengthy period (just over 12 months) without major mishap
    (b) Schutte-Lanz SL1:  made of wood – employed a novel form of ‘cross-spiral’ construction
     (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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  • (a) Zeppelin ZI X<br>(b) Zeppelin L30 (Super-Zeppelin)

    (a) Zeppelin ZI X
    (b) Zeppelin L30 (Super-Zeppelin)

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    (a) Zeppelin ZI X:the first to incorporate a simplified cruciform tail unit 
    (b) Zeppelin L30 Super-Zeppelin: six-engined, two thousand cubic feet ships were the largest in the world when they appeared
     (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

     

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  • (a) Zeppelin L 59 'Afrika-Schiff'<br>(b) Beardmore R34

    (a) Zeppelin L 59 ‘Afrika-Schiff’
    (b) Beardmore R34

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    (a) Zeppelin L 59 ‘Afrika-Schiff’: the last wartime Zeppelins
    (b) Beardmore R34: first aircraft to fly the Atlantic from east to west and in both directions
     (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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  • (a) Zeppelin LZ 127 'Graf Zeppelin'<br>(b) Royal Airship Works R101

    (a) Zeppelin LZ 127 ‘Graf Zeppelin’
    (b) Royal Airship Works R101

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    (a) Zeppelin LZ 127 ‘˜Graf Zeppelin’: operated a regular passenger service for five years
    (b) Royal Airship Works R101: the world’s largest flying craft at 731 ft (223 m) in length
     (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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  • (a) Goodyear-Zeppelin ZRS-4 'Akron', 1931<br>(b) Zeppelin LZ129 'Hindenburg', 1936

    (a) Goodyear-Zeppelin ZRS-4 ‘Akron’, 1931
    (b) Zeppelin LZ129 ‘Hindenburg’, 1936

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    (a) Goodyear-Zeppelin ZRS-4 ‘˜Akron’: designed for the US Navy by ex-Zeppelin engineers
    (b) Zeppelin LZ129 ‘Hindenburg’: destroyed by a disastrous hydrogen fire while landing at Lakehurst in the United States on 6 May 1937
     (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Print published 1973 by Hugh Evelyn; drawn by Peter W.M. Griffin
    Print size: c. 34 x 24 cm [13″ x 9″] may vary slightly from the printers’ cut 50 years ago)
    Printed on high white matt cardstock of 115 g/m²
    Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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The Genesis of the Airship

Montgolfier’s Balloon

Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, paper makers, in cooperation with Jean-Baptists Réveillon, a wallpaper maker, made the first manned lighter-than-air contraption, a hot air balloon, that flew at the Bois de Boulogne, Paris on 21st November 1783 with Pilâtre de Rozier and the marquis d’Arlandes the first passengers.
The King had given permission for the venture having witnessed an earlier experimental flight at Versailles in which a sheep, a duck and a rooster were passengers that were safely returned to earth from a tethered flight. The envelope used for the balloon was made from paper-lined linen. The Montgolfier brothers’ success revived interest in the possibility of using gas for “lift”, hydrogen having been discovered by Sir Henry Cavendish in 1766. But hydrogen was able to permeate most envelope materials until brothers Anne-Jean and Marie-Noel Robert revealed their formula for rubberised silk which they had used in their illegal contraceptives business.
The first manned flight using hydrogen took place 10 days after Montgolfier’s first flight. The balloon age immediately launched the quest for a form of transport that was less dependent on wind direction and speed and more amenable to going where it was needed to go. Balloons had their uses: military reconnaissance in “captive” or tethered form; escape from the 1870-71 Siege of Paris, when 66 balloons carried 168 people out over the heads of the investing Prussian armies. But their inability to be directed limited their use almost completely. “Dirigible” means “Capable of being directed or guided” and the process of achieving this in the air required a combination of envelope construction and mechanical power.  The use of balloons at the Siege of Paris led the French government later to establish the first official aeronautical research facility in the world at Chalais-Meudon near Paris.

The Giffard (see above) demonstrated the potential of dirigible flight in still air but it was the Lebaudy’s “La Jaune” (see above) that paved the way for the short age of dirigible airships in which the Zeppelin was to become the most important player.