Re "In flight repairs":
thnarg wrote, QUOTE: Only it would have been in German, Sue, because that’s Alfred Eisenstädt’s photo of the Graf Zeppelin being repaired over the Atlantic. UNQUOTE:
In fact, the bloke almost out of the picture going down the side of the ship is Herr Knut Eckener, the son of Dr. Hugo Eckener, the acknowledged "Mr. Airship" after the death of Graf Zeppelin himself in 1917.
I use that actual photograph a lot as part of my tours (I'm one of the freelance tour guides at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen).
Last edited by AES; 22nd Jan 2024 at 09:01.