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Re: Zeppelin sextants and altitude corrections
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Oct 30, 08:49 -0700
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 Oct 30, 08:49 -0700
Kevin,
Thanks for your remark. Indeed, they say that the cruising altitude of a civil Zeppelin was 650 feet, while some military ones flew 10,000 to 13.000 feet, and one of them set a record of 24,000 feet. This info is obtained from Google AI (which I do not find very reliable in general).
Alex.
