Deutschland (1896 airship)

Deutschland
Role Experimental airship
National origin Germany
Designer Friedrich Wölfert
First flight 1896
Status Destroyed
Number built 1

Deutschland was an experimental, hydrogen-filled,[1] non-rigid[1] airship built in Germany in the late 19th Century by Dr Friedrich Wölfert.[2] During a test flight in Berlin in 1897, Deutschland caught fire and crashed.[3] Wölfert and his mechanic, Robert Knabe, were killed,[3] thus becoming the first two airship fatalities. It was the second of Wölfert's airships to be named Deutschland.

  1. ^ a b D'Orcy 1917, p.127
  2. ^ Collier 1974, pp.35-38
  3. ^ a b Collier 1974, p.36