|Graf Zeppelin flying over Jerusalem's David's Tower, 1931|
Along with its sister ship, the Hindenburg, the two hydrogen-filled blimps flew between Europe, North America and South America on hundreds of flights.
|The airship over the Old City of Jerusalem (1931)|
Mail sacks were supposed to have been dropped from the Graf Zeppelin over Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa. The airships did not moor in Palestine but flew from Germany to Cairo, then over Palestine and then back to Germany. The flight took 97 hours and traversed some 9,000 kilometers over 14 countries.
With the spectacular crash of the Hindenburg in New Jersey May 1937, all flights of the two behemoth balloons stopped.