Zeppelins, airships and early aviation history.

"She was obviously aware of the historical significance of what she was doing," said Friedman, "because she had the foresight to autograph anything she could get her hands on -- luggage tags, tickets, fragments of Zeppelin skin, post cards. On one particular flight, she posted more than six pounds of mail." quote from: aviation historian Tom Friedman source Foto 1 - Clara Adams Foto 2 - Clara Adams Beschrijving Ebay: "Graf ZEPPELIN 1934 TIMETABLE LZ no.2 to South America .... including the Original Clara Adams Autograph. See scan ..right below the sea plane.. This special item has the Autograph of noted female AIRSHIP traveler, Clara Adams. She sent the item to a friend specializing in Aviation History. .....The front of the page encourages use of German Air Mail Service to South America. The back has the flight schedule of stops at various cities. also fares, freight fares etc. Shows departure at Friedrichshafen then stops at Rio, Pernambuco and arrivi

scans from my collection Links: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_126 http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA/greatzeps/german/Los_Angeles.html http://www.airships.net/zepplos.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZR-3 http://www.nlhs.com/usslos.htm http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ126_'USS_Los_Angeles' http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ZR-3_USS_Los_Angeles_(LZ_126) http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zr3.htm http://www.dvrbs.com/camden/camdennj-zeppelinovercityhall.htm http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10216259&wwwflag=2&imagepos=7

Scan from my collection . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin http://www.airships.net/airship-graf-zeppelin-lz127

A. Viruly Nachtegaal - KLM Douglas DC-2 PH-AKN crash Crashes DC-2 o.a. PH-AKN "Nachtegaal"

Onderstaande foto mocht ik plaatsen met toestemming van de heer Bakker die een mooie site gewijd heeft aan Adriaan Viruly: http://home-1.tiscali.nl/%7Elbb/bio.htm Op de foto links van A. Viruly (gezagvoerder) de BWK's J.W. Akkerman en Chr. Biesheuvel, rechts naast hem vlieger J. Bak (eerste piloot), de telegrafisten A.D.L. Strijckers (eerste telegrafist) en L.C. Dik (tweede telegrafist), vlieger J. Meyer (tweede piloot) en hofmeester Korstanje (steward). In het tweede gedeelte van het volgende filmpje zien we de Skymaster en haar voltallige bemanning tijdens de eertse snelle vlucht van 1946: http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/ibg/sn369006-bb.wmv Viruly op Dutch-Aviation.nl Enkele links: Douglas Skymaster NL-305 Douglas C-54 A 10420 PH-TAG http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-54 Skymaster Omschrijving eBay: "PRACHTIG GEILLUSTREERDE BRIEF van de EERSTE SNELLE VLUCHT NEDERLAND - SURINAME vice versa 1946 DE BEKENDE KLM PILOOT/ GEZ