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Author : Guy Hartcup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780858851931
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Achievement of the Airship written by Guy Hartcup and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Vissering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Zeppelin; the Story of a Great Achievement written by Harry Vissering and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Hartcup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Achievement of the Airship written by Guy Hartcup and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Vissering
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Zeppelin written by Harry Vissering and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement" by Harry Vissering offers a riveting account of the remarkable accomplishment that was the Zeppelin airship. Vissering chronicles the pioneering efforts and engineering marvels behind the creation and development of the iconic airship. From its conception to its groundbreaking achievements in air travel, the Zeppelin's story unfolds as a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance. With meticulous attention to historical detail, Vissering's narrative paints a vivid picture of the technological advancements and the daring adventurers who propelled the Zeppelin into the skies. "Zeppelin" is a fascinating read that celebrates the golden era of airship travel and pays tribute to the pioneers who forever changed the course of aviation history.
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
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428992634
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The airship's potential for intertheater and intratheater airlift written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. C. Gwynne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982168277
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book His Majesty's Airship written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian Princess at its heart. The tragic story of the British airship R101—which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later—has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty’s Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. R101 was not just the largest aircraft ever to have flown and the product of the world’s most advanced engineering—she was also the lynchpin of an imperial British scheme to link by air the far-flung areas of its empire from Australia to India, South Africa, Canada, Egypt, and Singapore. No one had ever conceived of anything like this. R101 captivated the world. There was just one problem: beyond the hype and technological wonders, these big, steel-framed, hydrogen-filled airships were a dangerously bad idea. Gwynne’s chronicle features a cast of remarkable—and often tragically flawed—characters, including Lord Christopher Thomson, the man who dreamed up the Imperial Airship Scheme and then relentlessly pushed R101 to her destruction; Princess Marthe Bibesco, the celebrated writer and glamorous socialite with whom he had a long affair; and Herbert Scott, a national hero who had made the first double crossing of the Atlantic in any aircraft in 1919—eight years before Lindbergh’s famous flight—but who devolved into drink and ruin. These historical figures—and the ship they built, flew, and crashed—come together in a grand tale that details the rocky road to commercial aviation written by one of the best popular historians writing today.
Author : Alberto Santos-Dumont
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book My Airships; The Story of My Life written by Alberto Santos-Dumont and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Airships; The Story of My Life is an autobiography by Alberto Santos-Dumont. In this fascinating book, Santos-Dumont documents his life and achievements as a pioneering Brazilian inventor and aviation enthusiast. His significant contributions to the development of early airships and airplanes are chronicled in a captivating and personal narrative.
Author : J. Duggan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403920095
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Airships in International Affairs 1890 - 1940 written by J. Duggan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the unique psychological appeal of the airship worldwide and shows how this appeal was exploited for ulterior political purposes. They were used by Count Zeppelin to advance German militarism, American Admiral Moffett to fight US Army aviation ambitions, British Lord Thomson to foster Socialism and strengthen Empire ties, Mussolini to promote Italian Fascism, Stalin to foster world Communism, and Hitler to promote Nazi ideology. As airships roamed worldwide, so they carried these political influences with them.
Author : Gabriel Alexander Khoury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107019702
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Airship Technology written by Gabriel Alexander Khoury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to modern airship design and operation, written by world experts, is the only up-to-date book on airship technology intended as a technical guide to those interested in studying, designing, building, flying, and operating airship. In addition to basic airship principles, the book covers conventional and unconventional design in a panoramic and in-depth manner focusing on four themes: (1) basic principles such as aerostatics, aerodynamics, propulsion, materials and structures, stability and control, mooring and ground handling, and piloting and meteorology; (2) different airship types including conventional (manned and unmanned), hot air, solar powered, and hybrid; (3) airship applications including surveillance, tourism, heavy lift, and disaster and humanitarian relief; and (4) airship roles and economic considerations. This second edition introduces nine new chapters and includes significant revisions and updates to five of the original chapters.
Author : United States. President's Aircraft Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aircraft written by United States. President's Aircraft Board and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1218 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aerial Age Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Naval Institute
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398818615
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)
Download or read book A History of the 20th Century written by Jeremy Black and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's leading historians comes an ambitious and sweeping history of the world in the 20th century. Ranging from the world wars to the traumas of decolonization and the technological triumphs of the space race, A History of the 20th Century documents the events, the characters, the ideologies, the cultural transformations and the dramatic politics of these turbulent times. Jeremy Black examines subjects as diverse as the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution and the birth of the internet in a compelling narrative. Keen to highlight the role of demographics, the environment, culture and technology as well as the better-known tales of political rivalries, he brings a new perspective to this most important subject.
