Lighter Than Air

Lighter Than Air

Author: Tom D. Crouch

Publisher:

Published: 2009-03-02

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Looks at the history of balloons and airships, from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the present day.


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.


Zeppelin!

Zeppelin!

Author: Guillaume de Syon

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2007-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780801886348

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Six decades later, there is still a mystique surrounding these technological leviathans, one that Zeppelin! addresses with insight and wit.


Military, Naval and Civil Airships Since 1783

Military, Naval and Civil Airships Since 1783

Author: Daniel G. Ridley-Kitts MBE

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0752490370

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An exploration of the history and development of the dirigible airship from its humble beginnings in the late eighteenth century through to its current role as military command posts among other uses. Starting out as an unreliable experimental aircraft whilst aeronauts first began to learn the secrets of aerial navigation, the airship was remodelled in 1900 by Count Zeppelin to become a potent weapon of war. It was then transformed again into a short-lived solution to long-distance passenger air travel. With over 100 technical drawings and contemporary images of dirigible aircraft, Ridley-Kitts presents a comprehensive and fascinating history of the airship. Military, Naval and Civil Airships is a must read for those that wish to delve into the development of the aircraft for the first time and for airship specialists alike.


Zeppelin

Zeppelin

Author: Peter W. Brooks

Publisher: Brassey's

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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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.


Airships

Airships

Author: Barry Hannah

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1555846424

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Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick


The History of Flying

The History of Flying

Author: Charles H. Gibbs-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-22

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1107622204

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This 1957 Reader's Guide by Charles Gibbs-Smith has a detailed bibliography on the histories of a variety of aircraft.