My Zeppelins
Hugo Eckener - My Zeppelins
Putnam | 1958 | ISBN: N/A | English | 234 pages | PDF | 66.05 MB
Putnam | 1958 | ISBN: N/A | English | 234 pages | PDF | 66.05 MB
Eckener saw the second flight of the first zeppelin in 1900 and become part of the phenomenon in 1909 until the second world war. He was THE man that kept the concept alive between world wars.
He mostly tells what he did and not his feelings for the most part. He write a lot about mountains and weather. He saw a lot in his years of voyaging. He was made a non-person by Goebbles after insulting him publicly. He met FDR as well as Coolidge and Hoover. He flew the Atlantic in 1924, and around the world in 1928, and had two ticker tape parades thrown for him. He claims that it wasn't the Hindenburg disaster, but the second world war that ended the zeppelin.