Ferdinand Von Zeppelin - Other Aircraft

Other Aircraft

  • 1899 unrealised plans for a paddlewheel aeroplane
  • 1912 financial support of Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen which was to supply 850 aeroplanes 1917/1918;
  • 1914 commissions Claude Dornier to develop flying boats
  • 1914 founds Versuchsbau Gotha-Ost with Robert Bosch which built a number of Riesenflugzeug (giant aircraft) such as the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI

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