Heralded as the 'Zeppelin on Rails', it was the propeller-powered train that promised to beckon a new era in travel. On June 21, 1931, the Schienenzeppelin set a new speed record for the ...

The propeller-driven aluminum train Schienenzeppelin ... The concept and execution of Schienenzeppelin ("Rail Zeppelin") predated the Nazis by years. Like quantum physics, Bauhaus architecture ...

Rear view of the vehicle with its propeller on a Berlin platform. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-11902 / Georg Pahl / Wikimedia Commons Although looking at the images might suggest a Japanese bullet ...

To get off the ground, the zeppelin is equipped with propellers that can swivel up and down to provide vertical thrust. Then, when the ship is in the air and moving at speed, it shifts into ...

The airship Zeppelin II, left here to-day for Cologne ... She had gone but a short distance when one of her propeller blades broke and another worked loose and fell to the ground.

Zeppelin hired another engineer to help him test possible materials. He researched existing ideas about balloons and airships. He asked others to test propeller designs. But sometimes engineers fail.