Chuck Bryant
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He also traveled 17 miles around in his first flight of his airship, which is, again, nothing to sneeze at.
He was puttering around at six miles an hour.
Yeah, in circles, essentially.
The first few airships just basically traveled in circles.
This was considered the first round-trip flight.
I'm not sure what Giffard was doing, but the French Army Corps of Engineers, like 30 years later, took their dirigible in a round-trip flight, again a circle.
This one was just four to five miles.
And it had a nine-horsepower motor.
Yeah, Zeppelin basically became the leader in designing and developing airship storageables at a time when it was like, this is the new thing.
Like, if you wanted to get from one continent to another, you took a luxury liner.
Like you said, they were kind of slow.
Zeppelins could go way faster.
And it was like the promise of airship travel was just limitless at this time when Zeppelin came along.
One other thing I looked up, the LZ in any of the Zeppelins, so like the first rigid airship was called LZ-1.
No, I thought probably it was.