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Airship Number LZ120 (LZ90)

The airships of the Zeppelin Company were cigar-shaped, with the maximum diameter being reached at one-eighth of the overall length. The diameter stays constant to about the last one-eighth of the ship’s length, where it reduces to the tail.  The ship is a “rigid airship” in that it has an aluminum, or duralumin, skeleton and a keel along the bottom, from which all of the ship’s weight was carried – crew, gondolas, ordnance, ballast, fuel, radio, etc.

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Airship NumberLZ120 (LZ90)
ManufacturerZeppelin Company
Military BranchArmy
Assigned Base(s)Juterbog, KOWNO, Seerappen, Seddin
Beginning Service DateJanuary 31, 1917
Last Service DateDecember 24, 1920
Postal MarkingPM”Kommando L. Z. 120”
Dispatch TypePersonal
Value$$

Notes

Another command of E. A. Lehmann.  Posted by Baron von Gemmingen, nephew of August von Zeppelin.

Famous for the 101 hour duration flight to prove the practicality of the planned flight to Africa, by L-57, and later L-59.

Feldpost Datestamp 25.3.17

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