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Ferdinand ﻿von Zeppelin
media type="youtube" key="0e-Zvu_CC_Q" width="572" height="470" align="center" **First Zeppelin made, 1900 Ferdinand von Zeppelin**
 * Ferdinand von Zeppelin was an aircraft manufacturer. He was the founder of Zeppelin Airlines **


 * Invention made: Zeppelin **


 * Influences towards business: ** After he was a general in the army he wanted to study Ballon Flight. He studied this and enjoyed it and created his own business, Zeppelin Airlines. He was well known around Germany and kept his business successful. Zeppelin Airlines is still around today, you just do not here about it that much.

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin also known as Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin was born July 8, 1838 and died March 8, 1917. He was born in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany. He was a German General and later an aircraft manufacturer. He was the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company.
 * Personal Bio: **

On July 2, 1900 the first "zeppelin" made its flight. It carried five people; it reached an altitude of 1,300 ft and flew a distance of 3.75 miles in 17 minutes. The success of this and future military and civilian "zeppelins" were to have a lasting effect on airpower strategists and Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin will always be remembered for the graceful mammoths of the sky which he pioneered.
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