Zeppelin LZ 5

Zeppelin LZ 5, tactical number Z II, was a C-class experimental military rigid airship built under the direction of Ferdinand von Zeppelin by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin at Manzell near Friedrichshafen. It was 136 metres long with a gas volume of 15,000 cubic metres and two Daimler engines. It made its first flight on 26 May 1909 over Lake Constance and soon completed an endurance journey of 1,194 kilometres in 38 hours 40 minutes with Count Zeppelin aboard, trying to reach Berlin but turning back for lack of fuel and because of headwinds. Sold to the military administration at Cologne on 5 August 1909 and renamed Z II, it made 16 more flights. On 24 April 1910 a storm broke it from its moorings and it crashed into a hill near Weilburg; it was a total loss and was scrapped on site.