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This is a picture of the Graf Zeppelin on it's tour around the world in 1929 . The whole trip was 12 days and 11 minutes flying time. Since airplanes of the day could barely fly more than 500 miles (at best!) at the time, this was incredible, The longest leg of the journey was the 11,247 km, ( 7,029 miles) 101 hour 49 minute flight from Friedrichshafen to Tokyo, which crossed thousands of miles of emptiness over Siberia. The Graf had 2 more days of fuel, but decided to land not to push their luck and replenish their supplies. The picture is at their stop in Los Angeles. This is the "long view" picture of another one that had passengers posing in front of the Graf.

Description
This is a picture of the Graf Zeppelin on it's tour around the world in 1929 . The whole trip was 12 days and 11 minutes flying time. Since airplanes of the day could barely fly more than 500 miles (at best!) at the time, this was incredible, The longest leg of the journey was the 11,247 km, ( 7,029 miles) 101 hour 49 minute flight from Friedrichshafen to Tokyo, which crossed thousands of miles of emptiness over Siberia. The Graf had 2 more days of fuel, but decided to land not to push their luck and replenish their supplies. The picture is at their stop in Los Angeles. This is the "long view" picture of another one that had passengers posing in front of the Graf.