Zeppelin Flights Lottery

[paul.deitch]

Thought you guys might find this interesting. Pictures taken Technischesmuseum Wien.

Poster reads
Do you want to fly with us, then buy a ticket for the flight lottery.
Lottery draw: 20 June 1931
Cost: 1 Schilling
First prize: 1 x Zeppelin round trip around Austria
Second prize: 4 x Flights from Vienna to Friedrichshafen and return flight back overnight.
Third prize: 25 x Flights Vienna-Berlin, Venice, Budapest, Innsbrueck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Gratz and back.
Fourth prize: Round trip over Vienna
Fifth prize: 200 x Tickets to view Zeppelin landings in Vienna.

Tickets available in Tobacconists, Travel Bureaux, Lottery Ticket Sellers, from the Austrian Aero Club and the Lottery Administration Vienna

Don’t know how much a Schilling is worth in today’s currencies but according to Wiki when it was introduced it had a value of 10,000 Austro-Hungarian Crowns, so not a lot by the sound of it.

[Eric Mc]

Smoking allowed.

[Phud]

Yes the zeppelin's had smoking lounges.

[LotusOmega375D]

Zeppelins have some pretty fanatical followers. A friend of a friend has spent much of his life and an awful lot of money collecting memorabilia on them. He would love that poster (if he doesn't already have one!).

I once purchased an old American Goodyear advertisement showing an artist's colour impression of what an airship aircraft carrier would look like. I showed it to this guy, thinking he would be delighted and want to buy it off me. But no, he couldn't have been less interested, because it wasn't actually a picture of a Zeppelin.

We've still got it framed somewhere.

[Eric Mc]

The US Navy really did operate airship aircraft carriers. They were built in the US but were heavily based on Zeppelin principles. The US Navy actually had the Zeppelin company build them a large airship in the early 1920s as part of war reparation post World War 1. This became the USS Los Angeles.

The aircraft carrier airships were the USS Akron and USS Macon.

USS Los Angeles



USS Akron



USS Macon

[FourWheelDrift]

And the Shenandoah. Along with the Macon and Akron all 3 US built rigid airships crashed. The Los Angeles built by the Zeppelin factory in Germany as LZ126 (part of the WWI reparations) didn't, but it ended up being scrapped.

[Europa1]

For anyone who is interested in the old airships, "Airshipwreck" by Len Deighton is a good read. No prizes for guessing what it's about!

It covers the US airships mentioned above, plus the WW1 Zeppelins, R101, Hindenburg and others that crashed.

[Ean218]

For anyone interested in new airships, you don't have to enter a lottery to have a ride in one from Friederichshafen out over the BodenSee.

http://www.zeppelinflug.de/en/

I went a couple of years ago and it was fabulous.

[Scotty2]

Did it in 2007. Absolutely fantastic. Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen is also brilliant.

[LotusOmega375D]

LotusOmega375D said:

Zeppelins have some pretty fanatical followers. A friend of a friend has spent much of his life and an awful lot of money collecting memorabilia on them. He would love that poster (if he doesn't already have one!).

I once purchased an old American Goodyear advertisement showing an artist's colour impression of what an airship aircraft carrier would look like. I showed it to this guy, thinking he would be delighted and want to buy it off me. But no, he couldn't have been less interested, because it wasn't actually a picture of a Zeppelin.

We've still got it framed somewhere.

So following on from this post my brother has kindly photographed the Goodyear advert, unfortunately his image is upside-down, so can anyone rotate it for me? The advert dates from WWII and shows what appears to be an updated version of the pre-war US Navy airship aircraft carriers. This artist's impression shows the airship to be armed with rather more potent Corsair aircraft, which Goodyear were also manufacturing.

[Steve_D]

[LotusOmega375D]

Thank you for that. Strange to think that they thought that this was still the future even at the end of WWII. I guess it was just a wartime Goodyear bigging themselves up to the American public rather than any wishes of the US Navy.

[Eric Mc]

The US Navy's large airship hangar at Moffett Field is still in existence -