Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Is there nothing you cannot learn on this list!! Cheers Geoff -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2007 11:40 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Internet Service Interruption At 07:14 PM 12/4/2007, Jerry Lehrer wrote: >Marc > >I sincerely doubt that there were 100 Zeppelins ever made. None of my >>extensive dirigible and LTA >literature indicates that.. Well, no. There were more than a hundred -- the German Army and Navy commissioned more than a hundred in the First War, and the British commissioned another dozen or fifteen, while the US Navy had four Zeppelin-derived rigid airships. The Zeppelin company designed 130 rigid airships (GRAF ZEPPELIN II ws LZ-130) but ten or so of these were never built. A complete list is available in the late Dr Robinson's GIANTS IN THE SKY. I can scan and send a list if you are really that interested. But the name of the exchange was just a code name, "100 Zeppelin". The Nazis HATED rigid airships and the name was just a codeword and no more. I was simply impressed that 100 Zeppelin was the main German exchange and that, today, 200 Paul seems to be the principal Internet node in the Bay Area. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information