The Zeppelin Museum IV - Military Zeppelins - Part 2

23.8.2009 by Traveler.

After a fairly long interval since the last entry, here are a few more images of artifacts from the military use of Zeppelins on display in the very steampunk Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen:

The patterns of Zeppelin crews’ uniforms:

The standard-issue Schako-helmet for crew members (worn while on the ground), fashioned after the Schako of the Prussian Gardejäger (I wonder if I can purchase one somewhere…):

A model of Luftschiff L 30:

 The board machine-gun Zeppelins carried later during the war, apart from bombs, this was their only armament. So it was nothing like the hevily armed Zeppelins you find in Steampunk fiction, especialy if it is manga/anime style:

And then there is this remarcable vision, NASA had much later:

And the corresponding text:

Still, there is more to come, I still have more photos. Next time, I will loose a few words on one expedition of a Zeppelin which attemped to bring supplies to the German troops fighting in Africa.

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