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The American Zeppelins

The US Navy operated the 4 rigid airships.

• USS Shenandoah ZR-1 (1923) was based on the captured German LZ 96 military Zeppelin.
• USS Los Angeles ZR-3 (1924) built as LZ-126 was given to the US by the German Government, as it was partially funded by war reparations from WW I.
• USS Akron ZRS-4 (1931) and USS Macon ZRS-5 (1933) were built by Goodyear-Zeppelin Co, a Joint Venture of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH andr Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. They she also served as a flying aircraft carrier for launching F9C Sparrowhawk fighters.

USS Macon ZRS-5

USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting. She served as a "flying aircraft carrier". In service for less than two years, in 1935 Macon was damaged in a storm and lost off California's Big Sur coast, though most of her crew were saved. The wreckage is listed as USS Macon Airship Remains on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)


The USS Macon under construction, 1932




The USS Macon inside Hangar One at Moffett Field on October 15, 1933




USS Macon docked inside Hangar One at Moffett Field.




USS Macon over New York City, 1933




Image from expedition to the wreck of the USS Macon, 2006


Image credit: (c) 2006 NOAA/MBARI

This rough photomontage was compiled from several thousand overlapping frames from high-definition video collected during the expedition to the USS Macon. The most visible objects are the wings of four sparrowhawk biplanes that were carried aboard the Macon. This montage was created by "flying" the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon over the seafloor in the grid pattern, using special control software developed by professor Steve Rock at Stanford University. Over the next few months, these rough images will be combined and color corrected by a computer to create an exquisitely detailed map of the wreck of the Macon.


High-resolution images from the 2006 expedition to the wreck of the USS Macon

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End of the Era

LZ-129 “Hindenburg” and LZ-127 “Graf Zeppelin”, 1935


http://blogs.ethz.ch/digital-collections/2012/04/20/5294/


Hindenburg Interior Design

Though official Nazi-Germany denounced modern art and design as un-German and degenerated and closed down avant-garde schools like the Bauhaus it was quite willing to embrace modern style when it suited them. The interior off the Hindenburg is a famous example of this opportunistic approach.
The famous Marcel Breuer Chair is just one example for a "degenerated" design:

Marcel Breuer
(1902 Hungary – 1981 New York City, architect and designer of Jewish descent, emigrated 1930 and became a Harvard teacher later on)
Cesca Chair S32, 1928




Otto Arpke
Hindenburg Interior







http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors


Hindenburg floats past the Empire State Building, 1936




Hindenburg over Manhattan Island, 1937




7:25 p.m. local time, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937




Survivor of the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937


AP Photo


Funeral services New York City, 1937


AP Photo/Anthony Camerano

New York City, funeral services for the 28 Germans who lost their lives in the Hindenburg disaster are held on the Hamburg-American pier, on May 11, 1937. About 10,000 members of German organizations lined the pier.


Wreckage of the Hindenburg, May 7, 1937




anthony luke's Blog: Eyewitness Photographer Recalls Fiery Hindenburg Zeppelin Crash
Airships.net: LZ-129 Hindenburg

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Next-generation airships

Worldwide Aeros Corp
Aeroscraft, 2012







Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times: New high-tech airships are rising in Southern California

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ALEXANDER LABAS (1900 – 1983)

Zeppelin, 1931


http://touba.tumblr.com/page/95


An airship and an orphanage




Soviet Airship, 1931



http://dieselpunks.blogspot.co.at

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Robert LaDuke

eastwestbankcom




Diner


12.5' x 26", acrylic on birch panel

flickr.com: Robert LaDuke paintings
Bonner David Galleries: Robert LaDuke
Zep Diner, Los Angeles

The Zep Diner in Los Angeles, California was part of the airship craze of the 1920?s and 1930?s. The Graf Zeppelin visited Los Angeles during its 1929 Round-the-World flight, and the most famous American dirigible was the U.S.S. Los Angeles.

The Zep Diner was located at 515 W. Florence Avenue in Los Angeles, near the intersection with S. Figueroa.  The location is now the parking lot of a McDonald’s.





Airships.net: Zep Diner

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HÉCTOR ZAMORA

Sciame di Dirigibili (Zeppelin Swarm), 3 International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennial 2009















Youtube: dirigibili che volano sopra Venezia 2009

Dimensions: Variable, Technique: Stuck zeppelin – publicity campaign – photomontage – souvenirs – street artists – printed and digital media – indoor exhibition


Zeppelin Schwärme - Sciame di Dirigibili, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen 2011









Dimensions: Variable, Technique: Stuck zeppelin – publicity campaign – photomontage – souvenirs – street artists – printed and digital media – indoor exhibition


lsd.com.mx HÉCTOR ZAMORA

[max_thehitman]

Fabulous great post man!! 
Thank you!

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THE JET AGE

Cowboy Meets the Convair - Andrews AFB, 1953


http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mamqlk6shR1r9qhhio1_1280.jpg


Roy Lichtenstein

Reflections




Jet Pilot, 1962


Graphite on paper
15 x 17 inches; 38.1 x 43.2 cm


Whaam!, 1963



Artwork details
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 1727 x 4064 mm

'Whaam!' is based on an image from 'All American Men of War' published by DC comics in 1962. Throughout the 1960s, Lichtenstein frequently drew on commercial art sources such as comic images or advertisements, attracted by the way highly emotional subject matter could be depicted using detached techniques. Transferring this to a painting context, Lichtenstein could present powerfully charged scenes in an impersonal manner, leaving the viewer to decipher meanings for themselves. Although he was careful to retain the character of his source, Lichtenstein also explored the formal qualities of commercial imagery and techniques. In these works as in 'Whaam!', he adapted and developed the original composition to produce an intensely stylised painting.




Artwork details
Drawing on paper, 149 x 305 mm

The artist wrote that this was his first visualisation of 'Whaam!' and that it was executed just before he started the painting. His original idea had been for a single canvas, but the diptych concept (embodied in T00897) developed as he worked on this drawing. As with other paintings, he made certain changes to the design as work on the painting progressed. The principal of these are the enlargement of the aeroplane on the left and the burst of flames on the right, to fill more of their respective canvases and bring them closer together. The caption in the left-hand panel of the painting is omitted in the drawing, and certain of the colour-indications in the drawing are not followed in the painting (in particular the letters 'WHAAM!', indicated as white, were painted in yellow).

[Moggy Cattermole]

I wonder what Freud would have to say about your apparent love of zeppelins and airships, purgatorio..? xD

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Jeffrey Milstein

Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor




Harrier Jump Jet




USAF Learjet C-21A




ARTIST STATEMENT Flying an airplane was one of my earliest dreams. Building and flying all the model planes I could afford, I became intimately familiar with aircraft design, and at the age of 17, I received my pilot’s license.
Heavy metal, as the wide body jets are known, is the ultimate achievement in engineering and design. While aircraft evoke many different feelings, since 9/11, no one can ever again look at a large airliner without the distant but ominous memory of how easily they were turned into weapons by a small band of terrorists. They are a symbol of how vulnerable our highly technological society has become.
In this portfolio I explore a typology of the varied cruciform shapes of jet aircraft flying precisely overhead as if frozen in space. I have decontextualized these highly detailed photographs to express the complexity and beauty of form. That these giant conglomerations of aluminum, can gracefully lift from earth is amazing. That they can return safely some hours later on another part of the globe is even more amazing. My aircraft photographs are an attempt to capture that sense of beauty and wonder but also the vulnerability that we all feel in today’s world.

http://www.kopeikingallery.com/artists/view/jeffrey-milstein

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Fiona Banner

http://www.art-agenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wpid-12797401492.-Fiona-Banner-Press-01_sml_15.jpg
http://www.art-agenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wpid-12797498931.-Fiona-Banner-Press-10_sml_15.jpg

Fiona Banner

A-Z (Index), 2006



more...
26 drawings, graphite on paper, aluminium frames, Dimensions variable


Harrier and Jaguar, 2010



polished Sepecat Jaguar aircraft, 8.69 x 4.92 x 16.83 m




BAe Sea Harrier aircraft, paint, 7.6 m x 14.2 m x 3.71 m

www.fionabanner.com

[max_thehitman]

I really like that Harrier upside-down.
I want to install one in my living room