The most famous airships today are the passenger-carrying rigid airships made by the German Zeppelin company, especially the Graf Zeppelin of 1928 and the Hindenburg of 1936.
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In Germany Hans von Ohain patented his version of a jet engine in 1936 and began developing a similar engine.
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Airship operations suffered a series of highly-publicised fatal accidents, notably to the British R101 in 1930 and the German Hindenburg in 1937.
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