Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dr Hugo Eckener was the real father of the rigid airship and commanded Graf Zeppelin on her maiden voyage. He was also an early fan of the Leica and received two of the early presentation cameras. Oscar Barnack rode on a Zeppelin in 1914 -- probably the Viktoria Luise though the Leica folks apparently cleaned out this information over the past twenty years and could not confirm that this was the airship involved -- and took an early aerial picture with the UR-Leica. I believe that Eckener was good friends with Barnack, as he was also with Dr Porsche (that damned car thread again!). In any event, there's a WEB page for Dr Eckener which was just posted to the LTA LISTSERV and there may be some Leica pictures on this, though I've not had a chance to check it out yet: > (Infinet-S-3.3) id XAA13643; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:46:36 -0400 (EDT) >Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:07:58 -0400 >Reply-To: forbin@interport.net >Sender: owner-airship-list@lists.Colorado.EDU >From: Allen Markman <forbin@interport.net> >To: airship-list@lists.Colorado.EDU >Subject: Hugo Eckener Website >X-Sender: forbin@pop.interport.net >X-Listprocessor-Version: 7.1 -- ListProcessor by CREN > >There's an excellent webpage (in German) by the Flensburg, Germany >State Archives Director, Dr. Broder Schwensen, on Hugo Eckener, the >zeppelin pioneer. > >The address is http://www.flensburg-online.de/geschich/eckener1.html. > >It contains many photos, most of which I have never seen in any other >publication. > >Up Ship, >Allen Markman ;> >forbin@interport.net msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!