Chuck Bryant

Yeah.

Yeah, in circles, essentially.

The first few airships just basically traveled in circles.

The next one is 1884.

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.

And that is the same...

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.

Yeah.

But it's Luftschiff or airship in German.

So Airship Zeppelin 1 was the first rigid airship.

The sister ship of the Hindenburg was LZ-130.