The Men of Manzell

This translation of Georg Hacker's 1936 original text tells at first hand the story of the earlier Zeppelin airships, up to and including the LZ 6. Operating from a floating shed on Lake Constance, the Men of Manzell faced innumerable challenges in designing and developing a viable rigid airship. Georg joined Count Zeppelin's team from the Imperial German Navy in 1907, and flew as pilot and navigator on virtually all of those early pioneering flights