Schuette-Lanz airship S.L.I. in the Mannheim hangar, 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 airship S.L.I. in the hangar in Mannheim, where it had been built by the Schuette-Lanz company founded in 1909

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Designers Dirigible Echterdingen Hangar Initially Keel Lanz Mannheim Rigid Schuette Stiffened Streamlined

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