All thought the zeppelin was a very big airship the zeppelin was very quiet. By 1914 germany had the largest fleet of airships of any nation.

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Its main advantage was exceptional stability which made it especially suitable for the hazardous landings of night flying missions.

Advantages of zeppelins in ww1. Zeppelins had more space to carry more military weapons and people which made it easier to get more people behind enemy lines. During the first world war zeppelins were prized for their ability to fly high up in the air for their long range and for their ability to carry heavy loads. The gotha iv bombers were more deadly than the zeppelins and were used to carry out daylight raids.

Advantages of ww1 zeppelins. When the war started in. While impressive the airship s performance advantage over airplanes had all but disappeared.

Initially they had great advantages in that they arrived unseen pre radar remember and were already at considerable altitude which meant that is was very difficult for relatively slow. Airplanes were still flimsy and extremely limited. Each raid killed 40 50 people.

They flew quicker than observation balloons and allowed the pilot a career alternative to fighting in the trenches in france. Zeppelin s airships had an enormous performance advantage. Which gave the element of surprise to most the germans.

The final zeppelin attack was on 19 october 1917 where 33 people were killed. Maximum speed was under 75mph and it took more than half an hour to climb to its ceiling of 10 000 feet. But it was painfully slow.

Wwi airplanes were quite novel for their day. The creation of count von zeppelin a retired german army officer the flying weapon was lighter than air filled with hydrogen and held together by a steel framework. Well the advantages of zeppelins tended to come early in the war as they could carry a modest bomb payload a great distance and at least initially they were able to fly higher than interceptor.

Once this method had been discovered zeppelins were extremely vulnerable and they were replaced by the gotha iv bombers in 1917.