Editing Airship (section)

===Zeppelin===
The term zeppelin originally referred to airships manufactured by the German [[Luftschiffbau Zeppelin|Zeppelin Company]], which built and operated the first rigid airships in the early years of the twentieth century. The initials LZ, for {{lang|de|Luftschiff Zeppelin}} (German for "Zeppelin airship"), usually prefixed their craft's serial identifiers.

Streamlined rigid (or semi-rigid)<ref>Cf. [[Zeppelin NT]].</ref> airships are often referred to as "Zeppelins", because of the fame that this company acquired due to the number of airships it produced,<ref>{{cite book |last=de Syon |first=Guillaume |date=2002 |title=Zeppelin!: Germany and the airship, 1900–1939 |publisher=[[JHU Press]] |isbn=978-0-8018-8634-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABW6BoUm9HkC}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hartcup |first=Guy |author-link=Guy Hartcup |date=1974 |title=The Achievement of the Airship: A History of the Development of Rigid, Semi-rigid, and Non-rigid Airships |publisher=[[David & Charles]] |isbn=978-0-7153-6551-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4FTAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> although its early rival was the [[List of Parseval airships|Parseval]] semi-rigid design.