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Originally Posted by GrussGott
This isn't the first time the Americans and Germans have competed over transportation platforms ...
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Ya know, it's fascinating to consider that, 100 years after the US & Germany (PanAm & Zeppelin) fought a transportation platform battle, here were are again, and with one of those legacy players!
Zeppelins would never have flown if it weren't for
Project Phoenix: Maybach's invention of the multi-cylinder ICE ... and Daimler funded it! (
even more ironic is that Maybach's multi-cylinder ICE replaced battery-electric engines!)
It's funny how 100 years doesn't sound like much, but then
Charles Lindbergh and Hugo Eckener were the most famous aviators in the World - nowadays everyone still knows Lindbergh (MSP=Lindbergh Terminal), but hardly anyone knows Hugo Eckener.
Eckener used to tour America in ticker tape parades
and meet with US Presidents
but he lost the aviation platform war so even 50 years later nobody knew who he was ...
...and most people only know the Zeppelin name from Led Zeppelin
In August 1968 Page invited Robert Plant and John Bonham to join his band, the New Yardbirds, for a September tour in Scandinavia. In October 1968 they took the name Led Zeppelin, which stemmed from a humorous conversation among several musicians about their chances of going down like a lead balloon