Breguet's Crash File #110

[Varese2002]

Breguet's Crash File #110

I found these three pictures which were sold during the war as postcards. For obvious reasons I edited out the texts on the cards. Have a good time looking at them and searching around what this is, I will return again to the stubborn #109 which needs still more attention.

Kees

[Breguet]

If the nose wasn't so angular I'd say a Junkers J1. But then as time hasn't passed I can't say nothing yet!

[cruze]

Hello

Not an airplane but an airship.
I think it's the LZ 77 shot down on february 21, 1916 by French cannon near Revigny (France).

A link (in french) : LE ZEPPELIN DE REVIGNY (février 1916)

Laurent

[Froggy]

Hello Cruze

I think that you a are absolutely right!
Thanks for the photos and this website adress!

Et bonne journée

BRUNO

[Rod_Filan]

Deutsches Heer Luftshiff L.Z.77 (Baunummer LZ 47)

After a bombing raid on the railway station of Révigny L.Z.77 was caught in the searchlights and shot down by French AA fire based near Brabant-le-Roi and crashed near Révigny on 22 February 1916. All 11 crewmen died--some jumped to keep from being burned alive. Kommandant was Hauptmann Horn.

L.Z.77 was used for the Spähkorb (Reconnaissance basket) experiments during the fall of 1915 and was successively based at Spich, Namur, Hage and lastly at Düsseldorf.

Construction number: LZ 47
Type: P
Army Designation: L.Z. 77
Length: 163.5 m
Maximum diameter: 18.7 m
Gas cells: 16
Volume: 31,900 m³
Motors: 1*240hp and 3*210hp
First flight: 24.08.1915



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Cheers

[Froggy]

Hello all

Here some photos from the search light which help to shot down the Zeppelin,
the tank artillery which shoted down it and the Zeppelin Z 77
(well camouflaged with a machine gun at the top!

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...BRUNO/1847.jpg

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...BRUNO/1846.jpg

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o...RUNO/lz077.jpg

BRUNO

[Rod_Filan]

Hello Bruno,
That last photo was taken at Namur. Thanks for uploading--I had yet to see a photo of L.Z.77 in one piece.

Cheers
Rod

[Froggy]

Hi rod

Here is the site were you could find a lot of photos about Zeppelin
and others airships

Puget Sound Airship Society: Zeppelin Airships 1900-1917

Cheers

[Varese2002]

Excellent Cruze, I had not thought this would be ended so quickly. I also enclose here the three postcards with the original French texts. The date of the demise of this Zeppeling is on the cards given as 21 Février 1916 at 20.47.
It is amazing how many pictures are available of this incident. Thanks Cruze, Rod and Froggy for the extra's.







Kees

[Varese2002]

Scoreboard at the end of Breguet's Crash File #110:

13.7 Rbailey
08.5 Fokkerj Feuchtwanger
07.55 YavorD
07.1 Breguet
06.4 Gregvan
05.5 Expositor
05.3 Varese2002
05.0 Dan_San
05.0 Rod Filan
05.0 Ross
04.5 Gilles
04.5 Froggy
04.0 Edmond
04.0 Eric
02.2 Crankcase
02.0 Cruze
02.0 Patrick
01.8 Tom L
01.0 Berman
01.0 Cliff
01.0 ONEALM
01.0 PaulForster
01.0 Pvernon
01.0 Rickenbaron
01.0 Troy Raines
00.75 Der Grüne Flieger
00.7 tbstreet
00.7 Ransom E. Olds
00.3 Kilian
00.2 Colin A Owers

Kees