- Hugo
Eckener (10
August 1868 – 14
August 1954) was the
manager of
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the
commander of the famous...
- and crew aboard.
These included the
Zeppelin Company chairman, Dr. Hugo
Eckener, as commander,
former World War I
Zeppelin commander Lt. Col.
Joachim Breithaupt...
-
count (Graf) in the
German nobility. It was
conceived and
operated by Hugo
Eckener, the
chairman of
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Graf
Zeppelin made 590 flights...
-
Mount Zeppelin and
flowing northwestwards into
Gerlache Strait east of
Eckener Point.
Named after the
settlement of
Poduene in
Western Bulgaria, now part...
- LZ-1 (on
which he was a crew member),
under the
overall direction of Hugo
Eckener, the head of the company. They were 245 m (804 ft) long and 41 m (135 ft)...
- Hugo
Eckener,
former head of the
Zeppelin Company and the "old man" of
German airships. In
initial reports,
before inspecting the accident,
Eckener mentioned...
-
Alexander Eckener (21
August 1870,
Flensburg – 26 May 1944, Aalen) was a
German painter and
graphic artist. His father,
Johann Christoph Eckener (1824–1880)...
- (1,950 mi; 1,700 nmi) in 34
hours and 30 minutes. On the
fifth flight,
Eckener caused a
minor controversy by
flying close to ****s
Doorn in the Netherlands...
- "
Count von
Zeppelin had died in 1917,
before the end of the war. Hugo
Eckener, who had long
envisioned dirigibles as
vessels of
peace rather than of...
- the best
airship pilot in the world,
although he was
criticized by Hugo
Eckener for
often making dangerous maneuvers that
compromised the airships. He...
