Graf Zeppelin navigator Max Prüß uses a sextant to find a Sun line of position during a record-setting, around-the-world flight in 1929. (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) It was ...

Summary and Top 4 Points: The Graf Zeppelin, Germany’s first aircraft carrier, was laid down in 1936 but never entered service due to internal disputes, skepticism, and war priorities. -Designed to ...

"An Bord Des Luftschiffes Graf Zeppelin, 2 Aug. 1929" reads the stamp on the passenger list. And the name of Janette Ten Eyck Crouse, a former Latin and math teacher from Syracuse, N.Y., was among ...

Key Point: Berlin may have dreamed of being a naval airpower, but it never happened. Thank goodness the Nazi carrier suffered from a wide variety of problems. From the first days of his ascension to ...