On Thursday, January 2, 2014 1:34 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>It is amazing that ZLT is still in business after all this time.
It's not amazing - they are different companies. The original companies that
constructed and operated the Hindenburg (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, DELAG and DZR)
were dissolved at the end of World War II. They built weapons for the Nazi
regime, and most of their facilities were destroyed.
>There have not been commercial zeppelins since the Hindenburg as far as I know.
The new company mentioned in the article (Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH) has
been making commercial Zeppelins since 1993. Their subsidiary Deutsche
Zeppelin-Reederei GmbH has been operating tours and charter flights since 2001.
The new DZR bears no relation to the original DZR that operated during WWII.
AF
