(via Faces From the Past #18)
Max Schulze pours cocktails like the LZ-129 Frosted Cocktail (gin and orange juice) and the Maybach 12 (gin, kirsch and Benedictine) in the bar between the smoking room and the airlock on the German airship Hindenburg. Because of the highly flammable hydrogen on board, no one could leave the smoking room with a burning cigarette, cigar or pipe, and Schulze’s duties included monitoring the airlock door.
(via Airminded · The Yellow)
Paris, 20 November 1903: the ghostly form of an airship floats past an equally ghostly Eiffel Tower, before a very solid crowd of completely entranced spectators. It is Le Jaune, ‘The Yellow’, the first of the successful Lebaudy series of French semi-rigid airships.
(via About Soviet Airships | English Russia)
USSR-V2 Smolny airship, 1932.
“Modell des Zeppelin-Luftschiffs LZ120 “Bodensee” im Winkanal II in Göttingen (1920)” (via)
If you think this poster is odd, you should see the movie.Madam Satan - (1930)
Swedish poster









