Gross-Basenach

Gross-Basenach or Groß-Basenach is the designation for a series of five so-called M-class German military semi-rigid airships constructed by balloonist Nikolaus Basenach and Major Hans Georg Friedrich Groß (1860–1924) of the Royal Prussian Airship Battalion Nr 2[1] between 1907 and 1914.

They produced one experimental and four military Groß-Basenach types, rebuilding each one several times.

Even his more successful competitors, Parseval and Schütte-Lanz, could not compete with Zeppelin after the war's end.

The Versuchluftschiff (experimental airship) had a volume of 1,800 cubic metres and had a keel directly under the balloon envelope.

[2] The power plant was a 24-25 horsepower (HP)[2] Gaggenau automobile engine and allowed a top speed of 29 kilometres per hour (18 mph).