U.S. GRANTED PERMISSION TO CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF GIANT ZEPPELIN
Paris (JFK+50) On December 17, 1921, the Council of Ambassadors granted permission to the United States "to contract for the construction...of a Zeppelin* of the L-70 type."
The airship, larger than the ZR-1, will be built at Friedrichshafen**, Germany.
The application for construction by the United States arose from the claim that "it was entitled to another airship under Germany's reparations agreement."
*Zeppelin: a type of rigid airship named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Patented in Germany in 1895 & U.S. in 1899.
**Friedrichshafen is a city located on Lake Constance in Southern Germany near the Swiss-Austrian border. It is known for its aviation history which is documented in the Zeppelin Museum.
SOURCE
"U.S. to Order Giant Zeppelin From Germany," The New York Tribune, December 18, 1921, www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
