Before describing the invention and more details of Zeppelin, firstly, I would like to share something, why I have chosen this interesting topic. As I am an international student so obviously, Zeppelin is an interesting topic for me. I was astonished when I saw first time Zeppelin in the sky. It was giant and very fascinated object which attracted me. I put up my head and watch it longer time. I was little upset because I didn’t know exactly what was that. Whatever I couldn’t stop myself to ask the next unknown girl who was walking next to me in the Schwenning street. Excuse me, if you don’t mind could you please tell me what is that in the sky? I pointed out my figure to that big object. The girl smiled and said to me, Oh, it’s a Zeppelin. I gave thank you in return and …show more content…
In the beginning of the first world war, Germany had ten zeppelins. During the war, the Germans used zeppelins as bombers. By 1918, 16 zeppelins were safe out of 67 constructed. On May 31, 1915, the LZ-38 was the first zeppelin to bomb London, and other bombing raids on London and Paris followed. Later they found zeppelins aircraft were not an effective weapon due to lacking several things. Zeppelins aircraft were removed from front line service in order to improve aircraft. That’s why later newer models were introduced that could fly higher and higher and used it as very effective weapons. At the same time, new planes with more powerful engines that could climb higher were built. and the British and French planes also began to carry ammunition that contained phosphorus, which would set the hydrogen-filled zeppelins afire. Ferdinand had lost many Zeppelins during first world war. Several zeppelins were disappearing due to bad weather and 17 were shot down because they could not climb as fast as the