Long before the B-29 ruled the skies, Germany built a wooden giant—the Zeppelin-Staaken R.6. With an enclosed cockpit and a wingspan rivaling WWII bombers, it was WW1’s most ambitious aircraft ...

5, an advanced bomber at the time, with two tractor engines and a 1190-pound payload. Name: Zeppelin Staaken R.VIDate Introduced to Military: 1917Key Tech Improvement: At the time of World War I ...

For Londoners, the threat began in January 1915, when the Germans sent zeppelins loaded with bombs ... Whitmore in a recent Twitter thread on WWI air-raid fashions. But they ended up being much ...

The move to long-range bombers was prompted by the growing vulnerability of Germany’s zeppelin airships to a new generation of faster British fighter planes armed with incendiary ammunition.

Towns in Norfolk are marking 100 years since they became targets of the first Zeppelin raids on British soil during World War One. Sheringham was hit by two bombs at 20:30 GMT on 18 January 1915.