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Set of 4 stamps, commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Zeppelin airships. Issued on February 5.Count von Zeppelin%u2019s first airship, the 1900 LZ-1, which made 3 flights then was dismantled in 1901.Zeppelin NT (Neue Technologie), a helium-filled, semi-rigid airship manufactured since the 1990s by Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (ZLT) in Friedrichshafen, Germany, which considers itself the successor of Count von Zeppelin%u2019s company.Germany%u2019s 1919 Zeppelin LZ-120, the Bodendee, which was transferred to Italy as war reparations.Two stamps depicting balloons, from a set of 7 commemorating the history of flight in Poland. Issued on November 5.The 1790 balloon of Count Jan Potocki and Jean-Pierre Blanchard, who were the first people in Poland to fly in a hot-air balloon, over Warsaw.The 1953 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning, which was won by Poles Stefan Makn%u00e9 and Ireneusz Cie%u015blak.