July 20, 1900 (June 24), Boxer, Led Zeppelin first flight. In In July 1900, an airship designed and manufactured by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in Philippians special column near Port first flight. Aircraft airship floating on Lake Constance, an aircraft shed manufacturing a wire wrapped around the aluminum on the airship, the aluminum hydrogen capsule containing 16 wrapped in cotton. Two 16-horsepower engine so that the the airship speed of 14 miles per hour. During the American Civil War, the Union army, von Zeppelin was the first balloon rose into the air, and since 1891 he has been engaged in the development work of the airship.