Travel: Find the LZ130!

[FlyTexas]

Ok, it's not the real LZ130 'Graf Zeppelin'..."it's only a model" (to borrow a line from Monty Python's 'The
Holy Grail' movie. The model is said to reside at the airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. As luck would have
it Southwest serves that city, so we're off to Milwaukee to find the LZ130!

Our ride, 'Triple Crown One'.

(time passes...eating tiny bags of peanuts, drinking Coca-Cola, looking out the window, changing planes in Kansas City,
chatting with the flight attendants, a little nap...)

Ahh, we've arrived in Milwaukee and our destination...the Mitchell Gallery of Flight!

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Check out that prop with the offset blades! Interesting.

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There she is!!


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...Finally leaving the snowbound Midwest US and heading home to warm and sunny Texas. A winglet shot for Joe.

[Garry Russell]

Cheers Brian

Interesting

Is the Airbus? alongside the Zeppelin for same scale (for comparison)?

I can't see Southwest ever using airships ...nowhere to put winglets where they can be photographed

[FlyTexas]

Yes Garry, I think the aircraft (maybe a 757) was placed there for comparison. One of my LZ129 Hindenburg books show a Boeing 707 in scale with the LZ129 (the sistership of the LZ130) and the 707 is almost the same length of one of the airships fins when measured from the fins root. So I'm guessing that the aircraft in the pic should be a little longer than one of the LZ130's fin. Amazing, eh? Oh, and a virtual pint to anyone who can explain that goofy offset-bladed prop.

Brian

[Chris Trott]

...Finally leaving the snowbound Midwest US and heading home to warm and sunny Texas.

Wait, are we living in the same Texas? It's been cold as hell here the last week.

[Garry Russell]

TBH I initially thought it was a 757 the thought it looked short but probably the angle

[FlyTexas]

...Finally leaving the snowbound Midwest US and heading home to warm and sunny Texas.

Wait, are we living in the same Texas? It's been cold as hell here the last week.

But remember how nice it was the week before the week of the Super Bowl? That's one of the things I love about Texas...the winter weather usually doesn't stick around for very long. Although this winter has been something else, eh?


Brian

[austerdriver]

Thanks for sharing the pictures Brian. Guess you had a good time away?

[Chris Trott]

But remember how nice it was the week before the week of the Super Bowl? That's one of the things I love about Texas...the winter weather usually doesn't stick around for very long. Although this winter has been something else, eh?


Brian

Yep, I remember that week and am looking forward to this weekend and possible 70 degree weather.

[FlyTexas]

Thanks for sharing the pictures Brian. Guess you had a good time away?

Definitely had a good time. As a Southwest Airlines employee I absolutely love the freedom to travel just for the fun of it. A while back I flew out to Albuquerque New Mexico for the sole purpose of eating a Chicken Burrito. Seriously!

Yep, I remember that week and am looking forward to this weekend and possible 70 degree weather.

70 degrees....mmmm, nice!


Brian

[simondix]

Who is that in the painting carrying the broomstick. I thought the USAAF had better equipment than that?