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Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809432721
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Giant Airships written by Douglas Botting and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the development, flights, and disasters of the giant airships of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Author : Douglas Hill Robinson
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295952499
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Giants in the Sky written by Douglas Hill Robinson and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John J. Geoghegan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750999071
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book When Giants Ruled the Sky written by John J. Geoghegan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William F Althoff
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612519016
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Sky Ships written by William F Althoff and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alanson Dale Topping
Publisher : Ohio History and Culture (Hard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book When Giants Roamed the Sky written by Alanson Dale Topping and published by Ohio History and Culture (Hard. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the career and contributions of Zeppelin designer Karl Arnstein and chronicles the growth of the airship industry in the early decades of the 20th century. Tells the story of Arnstein's education and his move from Germany to the US, and his work for a company that became a major defense contractor in WWII. Includes bandw historical and personal photos, and color illustrations. Topping worked for Goodyear Aerospace Corporation and Bell Aerospace-Textron. Brothers is a freelance journalist. He succeeded Topping as editor of Buoyant Flight. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ian Castle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800664
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book British Airships 1905–30 written by Ian Castle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the fascinating story of the cat and mouse duel between the airship and another pioneering form of technology – the submarine during World War 1. Detailed cut-away drawings reveal the design and development of the airship, during and after the war, whilst full-colour illustrations depict the airship in dramatic action shots. A tragic accident in 1930 brought the airship's military service to an end, resulting in a tiny window in which they were used and little acknowledgement over the years. Ian Castle gives deserved attention to an aeronautical wonder that for a short amount of time played a crucial service to the defence of Britain.
Author : Alexander Rose
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812989988
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Sky written by Alexander Rose and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky—a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg. “Genius . . . a definitive tale of an incredible time when mere mortals learned to fly.”—Keith O’Brien, The New York Times At the dawn of the twentieth century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany’s Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world’s first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the remarkable airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that would last for decades, in the quest to control one of humanity’s most inspiring achievements. And it was the airship—not the airplane—that led the way. In the glittery 1920s, the count’s brilliant protégé, Hugo Eckener, achieved undreamed-of feats of daring and skill, including the extraordinary Round-the-World voyage of the Graf Zeppelin. At a time when America’s airplanes—rickety deathtraps held together by glue, screws, and luck—could barely make it from New York to Washington, D.C., Eckener’s airships serenely traversed oceans without a single crash, fatality, or injury. What Charles Lindbergh almost died doing—crossing the Atlantic in 1927—Eckener had effortlessly accomplished three years before the Spirit of St. Louis even took off. Even as the Nazis sought to exploit Zeppelins for their own nefarious purposes, Eckener built his masterwork, the behemoth Hindenburg—a marvel of design and engineering. Determined to forge an airline empire under the new flagship, Eckener met his match in Juan Trippe, the ruthlessly ambitious king of Pan American Airways, who believed his fleet of next-generation planes would vanquish Eckener’s coming airship armada. It was a fight only one man—and one technology—could win. Countering each other’s moves on the global chessboard, each seeking to wrest the advantage from his rival, the struggle for mastery of the air was a clash not only of technologies but of business, diplomacy, politics, personalities, and the two men’s vastly different dreams of the future. Empires of the Sky is the sweeping, untold tale of the duel that transfixed the world and helped create our modern age.
Author : Mark Piesing
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062851543
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book N-4 Down written by Mark Piesing and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . . During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships. But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls. In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration, Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice flows,unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival. Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . . Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of earth’s extremes.
Author : Thomas R. Bullard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Largest Giants written by Thomas R. Bullard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Hammack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945441035
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Fatal Flight written by Bill Hammack and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship--a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard. Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed--nearly the largest building in the British Empire--to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience. The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship's first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain's most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships, but R.101 flew again, its scrap melted down and sold to the Zeppelin Company, who used it to create LZ 129, an airship even more mighty than R.101--and better known as the Hindenburg. Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind's obsession with flight
Author : Kathleen W. Deady
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736813211
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Hindenburg written by Kathleen W. Deady and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the giant airship "Hindenburg," the events that led up to its explosive crash on a New Jersey airfield in 1937, and the effects of the disaster on airship travel.
Author : Roy Rockwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Dave Dashaway and His Giant Airship written by Roy Rockwood and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Dashaway is an adventurous young aviator in the earliest days of flying.
Author : C. Michael Hiam
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611686970
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Dirigible Dreams written by C. Michael Hiam and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of airshipsÑmanmade flying machines without wingsÑfrom their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated the imaginations of people worldwide, but in less than fifty years dirigibleÊbecame a byword for doomed futurism, an Icarian figure of industrial hubris. Dirigible Dreams looks back on this bygone era, when the future of exploration, commercial travel, and warfare largely involved the prospect of wingless flight. In Dirigible Dreams, C. Michael Hiam celebrates the legendary figures of this promising technology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesÑthe pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, the doomed polar explorers S. A. AndrŽe and Walter Wellman, and the great Prussian inventor and promoter Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, among otherÊpivotal figuresÑand recounts fascinating stories of exploration, transatlantic journeys, and floating armadas that rained death during World War I. While there were triumphs, such as the polar flight of the Norge, most of these tales are of disaster and woe, culminating in perhaps the most famous disaster of all time, the crash of the Hindenburg. This story of daring men and their flying machines, dreamers and adventurers who pushed modern technology toÑand often beyondÑits limitations, is an informative and exciting mix of history, technology, awe-inspiring exploits, and warfare that will captivate readers with its depiction of a lost golden age of air travel. Readable and authoritative, enlivened by colorful characters and nail-biting drama,ÊDirigible DreamsÊwill appeal to a new generation of general readers and scholars interested in the origins of modern aviation.
Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 9780805064582
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine written by Douglas Botting and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2001-10-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed history of the opulent age of the zeppelin and the visionary builder behind the great airship, Dr. Hugo Eckener It wasn't the airplane that first romanced the public's imagination at the dawn of the twentieth century , but the great airships known as dirigibles, or zeppelins. Championing this great leap into the technological future was a visionary German entrepreneur, Doctor Hugo Eckener. For Eckener, the development of the airship, especially coming in the aftermath of the First World War, represented an opportunity to shrink the world through safe and speedy international travel. Botting's engrossing story vividly recaptures the spirit of the times, when new technologies in communication, transportation, manufacturing and other areas were revolutionizing society. The great airships were a source of wonder wherever they flew, and Eckener was likened to Christopher Columbus, hailed around the world as the great explorer of his day, not unlike the astronauts would be a few generations later. From its utitlitarian beginnings in the Great War, the airship reached its apotheosis with the round-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1929. Seventeen years after the voyage of the Titanic, this great airship- twice as big and three times as fast as that ill-fated liner-captured the world's attention and seemed to blaze a path to the future. That future, of course, was not to be, as Eckener's dream evaporated soon after, with the destruction of the Hindenburg and the impending success of the airplane.
Author : Mireille Majoor
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316123860
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Inside the Hindenburg written by Mireille Majoor and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and cut-away illustrations feature the stories of real-life children who were passengers on the Hindenburg during its final voyage.
Author : G. A. Khoury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521607537
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Airship Technology written by G. A. Khoury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation, for researchers and professionals working in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Author : Hugh Allen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1935327062
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Airship written by Hugh Allen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
