Andreas Becker
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Hello dear Flightsimmers.
The Zeppelins LZ-114 and Dixmude are almost ready to upload. It took me more than five years, due to illness, to create this fabulous airships, which are in fact idedentical. Some historical remarks about their somewhat unknown fates:
LZ-114/L72 :The X-class zeppelins were the largest airships built during the first world war. Zeppelin Luftschiffbau, the building company, generally numbered its airships with the initials LZ, standing for "Luftschiff Zeppelin", to distinguish these types of fully tubular aluminum-framed airships from the competitor Schütte-Lanz [SL], whose airships were generally wooden composite constructions. The Zeppelins for the Imperial German Army first got the tactical callsigns starting with Z. During World War I they switched to using the LZ numbers. The Zeppelins destined for the Imperial German Navy were labelled from the beginning with the tactical callsigns starting with L. The LZ-114 was the third and final Zeppelin of the X class built for the Imperial German Navy with the tactical callsign L72. It was finished in late 1918, but due to the end of WWI, it's maiden flight was not until 9th February 1920. Shortly thereafter, it was ordered to be transferred to France in the context of war reparations.
Dixmude: In the context of war reparations the former german airship LZ-114 was handed over to France on 9 July 1920 and renamed Dixmude. The airship was grounded for the next three years, as several necessary modifications had to be done. The original gasbags were changed to more modern ones and an extra nacelle for ten passengers had been installed some meters behind the cockpit gondola. All of these works caused the aforementioned delay. After the it was airworthy again,this famous airship made the time longest flight in the history of aviation. The flight had lasted 118 hours and 41 minutes and covered 7,100 km (4,400 mi). After serveral other successful flights, the Dixmude exploded off the coast of Sicily during a thunderstorm on 21 December 1923, killing all 52 (42 crew and ten passengers) on board.
Both are already ready for FS 9, whereas I need doing some tests for FSX creating a suitable aircraft.cfg file.
The flight behaviorsin FS 9 are satisfying, so here are the first screenshots. Greets, Flyandy Andreas Becker
The Zeppelins LZ-114 and Dixmude are almost ready to upload. It took me more than five years, due to illness, to create this fabulous airships, which are in fact idedentical. Some historical remarks about their somewhat unknown fates:
LZ-114/L72 :The X-class zeppelins were the largest airships built during the first world war. Zeppelin Luftschiffbau, the building company, generally numbered its airships with the initials LZ, standing for "Luftschiff Zeppelin", to distinguish these types of fully tubular aluminum-framed airships from the competitor Schütte-Lanz [SL], whose airships were generally wooden composite constructions. The Zeppelins for the Imperial German Army first got the tactical callsigns starting with Z. During World War I they switched to using the LZ numbers. The Zeppelins destined for the Imperial German Navy were labelled from the beginning with the tactical callsigns starting with L. The LZ-114 was the third and final Zeppelin of the X class built for the Imperial German Navy with the tactical callsign L72. It was finished in late 1918, but due to the end of WWI, it's maiden flight was not until 9th February 1920. Shortly thereafter, it was ordered to be transferred to France in the context of war reparations.
Dixmude: In the context of war reparations the former german airship LZ-114 was handed over to France on 9 July 1920 and renamed Dixmude. The airship was grounded for the next three years, as several necessary modifications had to be done. The original gasbags were changed to more modern ones and an extra nacelle for ten passengers had been installed some meters behind the cockpit gondola. All of these works caused the aforementioned delay. After the it was airworthy again,this famous airship made the time longest flight in the history of aviation. The flight had lasted 118 hours and 41 minutes and covered 7,100 km (4,400 mi). After serveral other successful flights, the Dixmude exploded off the coast of Sicily during a thunderstorm on 21 December 1923, killing all 52 (42 crew and ten passengers) on board.
Both are already ready for FS 9, whereas I need doing some tests for FSX creating a suitable aircraft.cfg file.
The flight behaviorsin FS 9 are satisfying, so here are the first screenshots. Greets, Flyandy Andreas Becker
