Data wanted for Zeppelin "SpahKorb", spybasket/sub-cloud car

I am gathering photos and info for the German Army Airship Services' use of "Spahkorben", the spy baskets with an observer that were lowered by cable. I have Lehmanns' description of the first one he helped build, along with a few period photos of others, and of course, a complete photo survey of the one in the IWM that fell from the Lz 90. If anyone else has any more photos from old publications for these "spahkorben", I would love to hear about it. I am hoping to model a few of these things, along with the one used by the Akron and Macon. I am also trying to identify the museum example the Germans used for the LZ-130s' electronic spy flights off England prior to WW2, but no replies yet to inquirey letters I have sent to several German museums.

There's one in the Air & Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.** I don't recall the details, but it was there last November, when I passed through.

Tom

Have you checked ?
http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/schuette-l...latte01.htm


There´s enormous amount of photos of Schûtte-Lanz airships, also of their sub-cloud cars

[Mosen]

The correct spelling is "Spähkorb" (Spaehkorb)

mosen

When I convert to a european keyboard symbology, then I'll add umlauts over the "a" in Spah, OK? Until then, I will just skip the excess letters. OK? well OK!

And now we can all be ever so happy.

I tried a similar website last year that was for Schütte-Lanz through the same university, I think, but I could not get it to come up despite various truncations. Thanks for the link, which went through just fine. I really must retry various interesting links that haven't gotten through, as they seem to ebb and flow.

They´re really worth an extended look! They all seem a bit dark (at least with my monitor), but have a plenty of detail if you download them to your computer and lighten them a bit with a graphics editor. Paint Shop Pro and the tool "Gamma correction" gives excellent results.

Yes, I went through the WHOLE thing, saving pics onto my Zip drive disks.** Dark indeed, but as you say a little time massaging them with a graphics program works wonders.** Those two SPÄHKORB pics are priceless!** Seven shelf feet of LTA books and ref material and I still have only a dibble of these sort of documents and pics that are showing up in the websites.** Most of those pics would have been passed over by most any author and publisher of any usual airship history, and that is where the web comes in so beautifully;** less emphasis on high cost printing and limited offerings in traditional publishing, and more on really through digital coverage.** I do wish more CDs were marketed as digital books, because these people certainly deserve some reasonable compensation for their efforts in creating these websites, and we sure can't expect to get it all for free forever.** And Thank You Mr. Mosen...you shamed me into taking the time to load some Windows 98 keyboard language conversions onto my rig (British English so I can get the £ money symbol, French and German so I can get squiggles and umlauts and etc.) which only took a few moments, but then took much longer to create a little keyboard conversion chart for each language change.** But now it is done and I can use it forever.

Yep, it would be cool to see more photo archives come out in public like this Schütte-Lanz archive.

The funny bit is that I found this archive AFTER I had modelled S.L.9 in 1/144 for the Finnish Aviation Museum