Zeppelin-Dornier “Komet” All Metal Monoplane.
Carries six passengers besides pilot and mechanician. One motor of 185 horsepower.
Efficiency Characteristics of Some of the Latest and Best Airships of All Nations
| Nationality | Type and Name | Capacity Cubic Meters | Maximum Speed, Miles per Hour | Efficiency | ||
| Speed (1) | Lift (2) | All-round (3) | ||||
| Non-Rigid Airships | ||||||
| American | Goodyear Pony Blimp | 990 | 40 | 24.2 | 0.60 | 15 |
| French | Caussin T 2 | 9120 | 57.5 | 28.0 | 0.85 | 24 |
| British | NS | 10200 | 57.2 | 25.6 | 0.65 | 17 |
| German | PL27 | 31300 | 55.7 | 27.0 | 0.98 | 26 |
| Italian | T 34 (Roma) | 34000 | 74.2 | 21.5 | 0.68 | 15 |
| Rigid Airships | ||||||
| British | R 80 | 34000 | 59.7 | 36.6 | 0.80 | 29 |
| British | R 33—R 34 | 55500 | 59.7 | 37.3 | 0.75 | 28 |
| British | R 36—R 37 | 59500 | 65.0 | 40.0 | 0.80 | 32 |
| German | Schütte-Lanz SL22 | 56000 | 62.5 | 45.2 | 1.36 | 61 |
| German | Zeppelin LZ 120 (Bodensee) | 20000 | 82 | 63.7 | 0.76 | 48 |
| German | Zeppelin LZ 121 (Nordstern) | 22500 | 78.8 | 61.4 | 0.78 | 48 |
| German | Zeppelin LZ 100 | 56000 | 67.2 | 56.0 | 1.59 | 89 |
| German | Zeppelin LZ 113 | 62200 | 81 | 62.2 | 1.60 | 100 |
| German | Zeppelin LZ 102 | 68500 | 63.7 | 54.4 | 1.90 | 103 |
Scientific deductions and formulae to be found in “Zeitschrift für Flugtechnik und Motorluftschiffahrt,” June 15th and June 30th, 1920, issues. Article by P. Jaray.
PLATE 28
| Dr. Max Freiherr von Gemmingen. | ||
| Dr. Hugo Eckener | Kommerzienrat Alfred Colsman | Dr. Ing. Ludwig Dürr |
| Carl Maybach |
CHAPTER II
The Zeppelin Organization at the Time of Its Greatest Activity 1918-1919
The Zeppelin Endowment for the Propagation of Air Navigation (Zeppelinstiftung zur Foerderung der Luftfahrt) which Count Zeppelin founded with the subscription fund of 6,000,000 marks presented to him by the German people in 1908, is administered by a Board of Directors, of which Baron Max Freiherr von Gemmingen, Zeppelin’s nephew, who worked with him from the start, is Chairman. The other Directors are Baron von Bassus and Dr. Hugo Eckener.
The Zeppelin Endowment owns Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin (Zeppelin Airship Building Co.), the construction company organized in 1908 and controls the “DELAG” organized, as stated before, in 1910 for the operation of commercial Zeppelins. Interested in the “DELAG” are a number of financiers, though with all the others, it was under the personal supervision of Count Zeppelin, and after him the Directorate of the Zeppelin Endowment.