The dream to fly





To be able to fly, this was and still is a human dream. Human watched birds when they fly high up into the blue sky and envied them. Even beetles and some insects are able to fly but not the human. Lots of energy and thoughts have been spent on inventions.
In Greece mythology the first inventor was Dädalus. He created huge wings out of feathers and fastened them with wax on bars. But this experience ended unhappy. Dädalus´s son Ikarus did not listen his father advice not fly too high because of the hot sun. He ignored his fathers words and flight high and higher and the wax melt and Ikarus crashed into the sea.
But I will talk today about the flying ship the Zeppelin. that great innovation to begin of 20th century. I want to write about what happened to this Zeppelin in 1908 next to a small village near Stuttgart.
Earl Ferdinand von Zeppelin created his 4th Zeppelin and the German army was very interested in it but demanded a demonstration. The zeppelin started in Friedrichshafen, Lake Constance and its destination was Mainz. There was a stop because of engine problems but all could be fixed. On its way back the engine again caused problems and it stopped again on the fields of a small town next to Stuttgart. During the night a thunderstorm ripped of the Zeppelin and it crashed into a fruit tree and started to burn and nothing only some framework was left. This should be the end of the area of the airships because Earl Zeppelin put all his money into the developing and the construction of this ship. But something wonderful happened. The people in the neighbourhood who are so satisfied by this huge flying ship started a collection and many joined and so the amount of more than 6 Million Mark came together. It was to this time a very impressing amount of money and this money allowed Earl Zeppelin to continue.
The area of the Zeppelin ended with the catastrophe of Lakehurst. But since quite a time there is a revival of these huge and silent aircrafts and you are able to buy a ticket to take a ride on such a flying ship. Since the sixties they exchanged the hydrogen in the balloon into helium, so there will be no danger of explosion anymore.

Below picture shows the label



You can read on this monument following words:

Hier landete am 5. August 1908 Graf Zeppelin zum ersten Mal auf festem Boden

Mit dem Luftgeist hat er gerungen
Den grimmen Feind siegreich bezwungen
Aus Flammenglut stieg er empor
Noch herrlicher als je zuvor
Der Deutschen Stolz dem Recken kühn
Ihm gilt der Stein – Graf Zeppelin


Here landed on August 5th 1908 Earl Zeppelin the first time on solid ground

He fight the silph
He defeat the grimly enemy
He ascend out of flames blaze
More marvellous as ever before
The German Proud, the warrior bold
Him is this stone – Earl Zeppelin




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