Capt. Ernst Lehmann, who would be killed in the crash of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst eight and a half years later, served as First Officer on the flight and U.S. Navy LCDR Charles E. Rosendahl, commander of the ZR-3 USS Los Angeles (ex-LZ 126), made the westward journey during which he also stood watch as a regular ship's officer.
Led Zeppelin | Graf | Zeppelin | Steffi Graf | 127 | No. 127 Squadron RAF | Led Zeppelin III | Graf Zeppelin | Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Alfred Byrd Graf | Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1973 | Herbert Graf | Hans Graf | LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1975 | Led Zeppelin IV | Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött | Hermann Graf | Harry Graf Kessler | ''Graf Zeppelin'' | German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee | German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin | David Graf | 127 Hours | West Virginia Route 127 | Russian coast defense ship General Admiral Graf Apraksin | LZ 61 (Zeppelin 'L 21') | Luftschiffbau Zeppelin | Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal | Led Zeppelin United Kingdom Tour Summer 1969 |
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.
Refused funds by the penniless Weimar government, Eckener and his colleagues began a nationwide fund-raising lecture tour in order to commence construction of Graf Zeppelin, which became the most successful rigid airship ever built.
The transport airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, as well as the second Graf Zeppelin (LZ 130), were based near the present site of the museum, on a site later occupied by the Rhein-Main Air Base.