Sky Ships
Sky Ships

Author: William F Althoff

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1612519016

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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.

Akron Aviation
Akron Aviation

Author: James I. Pryor II

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467111325

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Everyone loves a good adventure story. The history of Akron aviation provides all the real-life pathos of any adventure novel. It all began in 1875, when a young farmer named Jack C. Johnston launched himself and his balloon on one of the wildest flights ever recorded. In 1906, John Gammeter, an Akron inventor, built his own airplane and began making regular flights over the city. In Akron, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company saw the future of air commerce and would go on to write its own chapter in aviation history on a global scale. The story of Akron aviation is one of incredible triumphs and unspeakable tragedies. It is the story of men and women determined to conquer the air. Akron aviation matured along with the city, and the two intertwined to become a major influence in northern Ohio as well as the country.

The Story of the Airship
The Story of the Airship

Author: Hugh Allen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1935327062

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Originally published by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a promotional, The Story of the Airship chronicles the history and development of these great ¿silver cruisers of the sky.¿ Filled with photos and authoritative text, the book springs from an era when dirigibles, balloons and blimps competed against airplanes for public attention.

Z R S
Z R S

Author: Rowan Partridge

Publisher:

Published: 2000-12

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780963974341

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Historical fiction that speculates on how, US Naval rigid airships could have played a part in the war in the Pacific during World War II, if they had continued to evolve after 1935.