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GerColctor · 12-03-2007, 08:33 PM

Carring a pistol on a Zeppin was not as dangerous as people might think.

Zepplins that flew bombing raids over England were protected by numerous machine gun ports to fend off fighters. There ports were located all around the Zepplin to protect the ship from planes approching from any direction. The interior of these aircrafts were honeycombed with catwalks that allowed the crew to move about the interior. They were also carring quite a few bombs.

The Zeppin's best defense in the beginning of the War was the fact they could fly at higher altitudes then fighters, but English technology improved the plane's engines so they could reach these big targets. Still, attacking a ship this well armed was very dangerous. They used a different, less volatile gas then the Hindenburg.

Most of the Zeppins were lost to storms over the North Atlantic/English Channel. This was the same cause that ended America's lighter then air fleet program in the 1920s, after a number of disasters.
Joe

12-03-2007, 08:33 PM	#6
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 315 Thanks: 2 Thanked 48 Times in 31 Posts	Carring a pistol on a Zeppin was not as dangerous as people might think. Zepplins that flew bombing raids over England were protected by numerous machine gun ports to fend off fighters. There ports were located all around the Zepplin to protect the ship from planes approching from any direction. The interior of these aircrafts were honeycombed with catwalks that allowed the crew to move about the interior. They were also carring quite a few bombs. The Zeppin's best defense in the beginning of the War was the fact they could fly at higher altitudes then fighters, but English technology improved the plane's engines so they could reach these big targets. Still, attacking a ship this well armed was very dangerous. They used a different, less volatile gas then the Hindenburg. Most of the Zeppins were lost to storms over the North Atlantic/English Channel. This was the same cause that ended America's lighter then air fleet program in the 1920s, after a number of disasters. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.