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    Default TWO EXAMPLES OF DROPPING BOMBS ON A ZEPPEILN WHILE IN FLIGHT

    Zeppelin LZ39 (Type o Zeppelin) first flew on 4/24/15, entered service with the Army on 5/17/15. This Zeppelin had a narrow escape over Ostend, Belgium when it was aatacked by Cdr. A. W. Bingsworth of the RNAS who was flying an Avro504. Bingsworht got above the Zeppelin and dropped four 9kg (20lb) bombs which hit and damaged the hull but failed to ignites the gas (this model of Zeppelin carried 24,900 cu m. of gas, filled into 15 gas cells). The airship escaped to make a heavy landing. (this particluar Zeppelin was brought down by anti-aircraft fire at Kovno, Russia, on 12/16/15.

    Three weeks later, Sub-Lieut R. Waneford made a similar attack on the L3 class (type m Zeppelin) LZ37 (first flight on 2/28/15) in the same area (it was actually over Gent at the time of this fight) and sent it down in flames. For this, Waneford was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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    Default Details of Sub-Lt Wanefords successful bombing of LZ37

    On the night of 6-7 June 1915 Rex Warneford, a lieutenant in the RNAS, flying a Morane-Saulnier, was on a bombing mission against the Zeppelin sheds at Evere. When he spotted a Zeppelin returning from a bombing raid against London he decided to attack it. He tried shooting his carbine at it, his only armament, but he was driven off by the Zeppelin's defensive machine guns.

    The airship began climbing, leaving the little plane behind, but Warneford, unbeknown to the Zeppelin crew, continued the pursuit, climbing slowly over two hours to an altitude of 13,000 feet. At this stage the airship began to descend in the direction of Brussels, and seizing his opportunity Warneford, now above the Zeppelin, dived towards it and from about two hundred feet above he dropped his six bombs on its roof.

    The resultant explosion destroyed the Zeppelin, and almost destroyed Warneford's fragile monoplane.

    He was forced to put the plane down, behind enemy lines, but he managed to make sufficient emergency repairs to take off again and return to his base. LZ 37 was the first Zeppelin brought down by an airplane.

    Warneford was awarded the Victoria Cross by the British, and the Knight's Cross of the Legion d'Honneur by the French, but his triumph was short-lived. He was killed ten days later in a flying accident.

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    Cool posts. Interesting read, love stuff about Zeppelins.

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    do you have any Zeppelin rules for this in games

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