After 28 trial trips the airship on 15.000 m was increased and sold after further 36 travels to the army administration. The Prussian generals stationed it in Biesdorf. Other sources speak of altogether 73 travels. In 2 February 1912 also Ferdinand count von Zeppelin participated in a travel. The ship was lost during a routine landing, when it impacted in a ditch hard.

The data concerning the quality of the ship are contradictory. On the one hand it exceeded all past ships regarding speed and additional load around a multiple. It had the three-way volume of past percussion airships. On the other hand it did not satisfy military among other things because of the too small climbing height and the arising Zeppeline placed the technical projection/lead in the shade. Siemens stopped its airship development in the First World War.

Technology

• Length: 118 m
• largest diameter: 13.2 m
• Volume: 13,500 m later 15,000 m
• Traggas: Hydrogen
• Drive: four Daimler engines, with in each case 92 KW (125 HP)
• Propulsion: Two and four steel propellers with narrow propeller blades and 3.5 m diameters
• Maximum speed: 72 km/h.
• Outer hull from three-fold material with rubber lining for gas-tightness

See also

• George William by Siemens

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