Although these achievements have remained in the shadow of the popular Count Zeppelin to this day, numerous interactions between the two airship builders and their companies can be proven and documented in the exhibition with exhibits and documents that have never been shown before. In contrast to the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH, however, Schütte-Lanz did not succeed in building civilian airships after the end of the First World War.

A special eye-catcher of the exhibition is a true-to-original model of the technically revolutionary Schütte-Lanz airship SL 2, which has a length of 14.4 meters on a scale of 1:10. It was built over several months by a team of lecturers and students from the Institute for Technical Education at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. This masterpiece of model making provides unprecedented insights into the fascination of airships.

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