ZMC-2 All-Metal Airship
Type: | Hydrogen-filled Rigid Airship |
Role: | Passenger Airship |
Top speed: | 70 mph / 112 kph |
Range: | 675 mph / 1,087 km |
Volume: | 200,100 ft3 / 5,667 m3 |
Length: | 148' 11" / 45.4 m |
Diameter: | 53' 2" / 16.2 m |
Engine Type: | 2 220 hp Wright J-5 Whirlwind 9-cylinder Air-cooled Radial Piston Engines |
Crew: | 2 |
Designer(s): | Ralph Hazlett Upson |
Manufacturer: | Detroit Aircraft Corporation |
Number Manufactured: | 1 |
Country of Origin: | United States |
First Flight: | August 19, 1929 |
Retired | 1941 |