Zeppelin S, T & U-class ‘Height Climbers’

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Zeppelin S, T & U-class ‘Height Climbers’

Mark I Models 1:720

 

This injection-moulded kit contains 53 parts, including a useful model stand. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.

 

 

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1) Zeppelin LZ92 (S-class), L43, White L43, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Ahlhorn Airship Base, Germany, mid-April ‒ mid-June 1917

 

2) Zeppelin LZ93 (T-class), L44, White L44, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Ahlhorn Airship Base, Germany, mid-April ‒ 20 October 1917

 

3) Zeppelin LZ96 (U-class), L49, White L49, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Wittmundhafen Airship Base, Germany, mid-July ‒ 20 October 1917

 

4) Zeppelin LZ98 (U-class), L52, White L52, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Wittmundhafen and Nordholz Airship Bases, Germany, late July 1917 ‒ 23 June 1919

Ref. No.: MKM720-12
 
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Zeppelin S, T & U-class ‘Height Climbers’

Description

Rigid airships (or dirigibles) were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s.

 

During WWI the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, built nearly one hundred military airships both for their army and naval corps. The airship type and construction was characterised by particular class (A to X). During The Great War they were used as a new type of attack weapon for bombing and also for reconnaissance and naval patrol work.

 

Following losses of a number airships during 1916 and to avoid aeroplane attacks, production of new airships with increased operating ceiling was instigated. The first Zeppelin Height Climbers, based on the R-class airships, were developed early in 1917. Four prototypes, two each of the S and T-class, were built in the spring of 1917, while another five production U-class airships followed between May and August.

 

All these airships consisted of structural metal framework covered with doped fabric containing cells filled with a hydrogen lifting gas. They were fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in two suspended gondolas (cars) mounting Maybach engines and pusher propellers (different units and arrangements were utilised in particular class airships), while bombs were contained in internal bomb bays. Defensive gunners were stationed in the front upper part of the airship’s body, in an aft gun position behind the rudders, two in gondolas and in each of the cars either side of the hull.

Products purchased together with this product

Goodyear K-type Blimp ‘Fleet Defender’

Goodyear K-type Blimp ‘Fleet Defender’

Mark I Models 1:720

 

This injection-moulded kit contains 17 parts, including a mobile mooring mast. A towing tractor (4 resin parts) is provided. For modellers convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting a section of the military airfield is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.

 

Colour schemes included in the kit:

1) Goodyear ZNP-K-74 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 30196, Blue K-74, Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-21/Blimp Squadron ZP-21 (Blimpron 21), Airship Patrol Group 2 (APG 2)/Fleet Airship Wing 2 (FASW 2), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Naval Air Station Richmond, Det. NAS Key West, Florida, U.S.A., June/July 1943

 

2) Goodyear ZNP-K-112 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 33504, Blue K-112, Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, “The Africa Squadron”), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Craw Field, Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, North Africa, July 1944 and Cuers-Pierrefeu Naval Air Base (Base d’aéronautique navale, BAN), Var Department, France, September/October 1944

 

3) Goodyear ZNP-K-134 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo not received, Blue K-134, Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, “The Africa Squadron”), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Craw Field, Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, North Africa, summer 1944 and La Sénia airfield, Oran, Algeria, North Africa, December 1944

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