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Author: Peter W. Brooks Publisher: Brassey's ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
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This volume covers rigid airships from their beginnings in 19th-century Germany until World War II and examines their role in both civil and military aviation. It gives the development histories of 163 different airships constructed during that period in Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
Author: Peter W. Brooks Publisher: Brassey's ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
This volume covers rigid airships from their beginnings in 19th-century Germany until World War II and examines their role in both civil and military aviation. It gives the development histories of 163 different airships constructed during that period in Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
Author: John J. Geoghegan Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0750999071 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 546
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Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going despite the obstacles thrown in their way – until the Navy deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first time, what really happened can be revealed.
Author: Guillaume de Syon Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801886348 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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Six decades later, there is still a mystique surrounding these technological leviathans, one that Zeppelin! addresses with insight and wit.
Author: John McPhee Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374137811 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 194
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This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the airplane and rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. Its early and secrect experimenta; development took twelve years' time and one and a half million dollars. McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's successive progenitors and makes it seem as momentous as the first trip to the moon.
Author: William F Althoff Publisher: Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1612519016 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition— complete with two hundred new photographs—to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication. Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin— ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.
Author: G. A. Khoury Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521607537 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 564
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A unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation, for researchers and professionals working in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Author: Peter W. Brooks
Author: Peter W. Brooks
Author: Douglas Hill Robinson
Author: Douglas Hill Robinson
Author: Charles Paine Burgess
Author: John J. Geoghegan
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Author: Guillaume de Syon
Author: John McPhee
Author: William F Althoff
Author: G. A. Khoury