Airship Schuette-Lanz SL 1 before takeoff, 1912

After the Zeppelin crash in Echterdingen in 1908 the airship designers Dr. Schuette and Dr. Lanz began the development of a new streamlined airship type. The semi-rigid airship from Schuette-Lanz initially was only a balloon made dirigible by a motor and a wheel with stiffened keel. The Schuette-Lanz airship SL1'(?) is fastened to the ground at the airfield

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Designers Dirigible Echterdingen Fastened Initially Keel Lanz Rigid Schuette Stiffened Streamlined

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