Airship
Technology
by Gabriel A. Khoury (Editor), J. David Gillett (Editor)
(Hardcover - April 1999)
Out of Print
Airships
in International Affairs, 1890-1940
by John Duggan, Henry Cord Meyer
(Hardcover - December 2001)
The
Airship
by Christopher Sprigg, Adam Starchild (Afterword)
Since the early days of practical aviation, the rival claims of heavier-than-air
and lighter-than-air craft have been a subject more of controversy than
constructive comment. Indeed, those who have studied the history of aeronautics
will be aware that man's desire for the conquest of the air has run in
two channels. For one the goal is a real air "ship", the "clipper of the
clouds" that Jules Verne so admirably anticipated - for the other it is
a pair of wings, for which men will "call as familiarly as for their boots"
- a kind of aerial motor car. The lighter-than-air craft and the heavier-than-air
craft translate these two desires into practical terms. Amazon.com
Paperback - 258 pages (July 2001)
Lightning Source; ISBN: 0898753651
 |
By
Airship to the North Pole : An Archaeology of Human Exploration
P. J. Capelotti
The first two attempts to reach this remote and frigid outpost by air
are examined, starting with a failed 1897 attempt by Swedish engineer Salomon
August Andre who history has dubbed as either a lunatic or an idiot: his
balloon needed to stay up for a month, but would only hold enough hydrogen
gas for a few days. It disappeafred forever, as did he and two crew. Dropbears.com
Hardcover - 224 pages (September 1999)
Rutgers Univ Press; ISBN: 0813526337
Airship
Technology (Cambridge Aerospace Series, 10)
G. A. Khoury(Editor), J. David Gillett (Editor)
Hardcover - 400 pages (April 1999)
Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521430747
Out of Print
Battlebags
: British Airships of the First World War an Illustrated History
by Ces Mowthorpe
This is a fully illustrated history of the Royal Naval Air Service
airships, affectionately named "battlebags" by their crews and "pigs" by
the local civilian inhabitants, which became mighty weapons against the
deadly German U-boat menace in WW I. Amazon.com
Paperback - 256 pages (April 1998)
Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750915188
Blimps
by Darlene R. Stille
Paperback from Children's Book Press
Book Published: September, 1997
Disaster
at the Pole : The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition
to the North Pole
by Wilbur Cross
Hardcover - 316 pages (September 2000)
The Lyons Press; ISBN: 1585740497
The
Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
by John McPhee
Since the explosion of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey, energy-efficient,
lighter-than-air ships have given way to gas-guzzling jet aircraft. But
in the 1960s, an unusual band of inventors, engineers and investors, again
in New Jersey, created the Aereon, a strange, wingless hybrid airplane/dirigible.
The Aereon--the Deltoid Pumpkin Seed-- promised to be a safe workhorse
of the skies, capable of carrying the payload of entire freight trains
with minimal cost.
In this exquisitely crafted tale of back-to-the-drawing-board perseverance,
McPhee tells the story not only of the Aereon, but of any product development
team. He astutely delineates the team members' personalities and interactions,
delves back in time to the origins of lighter-than-air craft and the history
of propellers, and in the end, makes us wonder why this promising technology
hasn't been perfected. Like Aramis: Or the Love of Technology, this
is a splendid book about a potentially superior aircraft which has yet
to be adopted.
Paperback (May 1981)
Noonday Pr; ISBN: 0374516359
The
Great Texas Airship Mystery
Wallace Chariton, et al
Between 1896-1897, Texas was churning with reports of a cigar-shaped
airship ...
Hardcover / Published 1991
The
Great Dirigibles : Their Triumphs and Disasters
by John Toland
Paperback revised edition (June 1972)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486213978
Hot
Air Balloons : Flights of Fancy and Fantasy
by Ailsa Spindler, Clive McFadden
Hardcover - 80 pages (December 1999)
Todtri Productions Ltd; ISBN: 1577171594
Inside
the Hindenburg
by Mireille Majoor, Ken Marschall (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 32 pages (November 2000)
Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd); ISBN: 0316123862
Lighter
Than Air : Illustrated History of the Development of Hot Air Balloons and
Airships
by David Owen
Hardcover - 160 pages (September 1999)
Book Sales; ISBN: 0785810455
Man
Flies : The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon, Conqueror
of the Air
by Nancy Winters
(Hardcover - September 1998)
My
Airships
by Alberto Santos-Dumont, Adam Starchild
Paperback from University Press of the Pacific
Book Published: December, 2002 |
| |
Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships; Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg
Harold G. Dick, Douglas H. Robinson (Contributor)
Listed under Zeppelins
From
Airship to Spaceship : Long Island in Aviation and Spaceflight
Joshua Stoff
Hardcover / Published 1991
Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine : The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of
Air Travel
by Douglas Botting
Listed under Zeppelins
The
Hindenburg
by Patrick O'Brien
(School & Library Binding - October 2000)
The
Hindenburg (Great Disasters and Their Reforms)
by Gina De Angelis
The
Hindenburg Disaster: Doomed Airship (American Disasters)
by Victoria Sherrow
The
Hindenburg: Fiery Crash of a German Airship (Disaster!)
by Kathleen W. Deady
R101
: The Airship Disaster, 1930
by Tim Coates (Editor)
(Paperback - April 2001)
USS
Los Angeles: The Navy's Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology
by William F. Althoff
Book Description: Aviation historian William Althoff tells the story
of the U.S. Navy’s airship, USS Los Angeles, the most successful aircraft
of its type ever flown. In dramatic detail, Althoff recounts how the U.S.
Navy arranged for the famed German Zeppelin Company to build the ship,
thwarted schemes by the U.S. Army’s Air Service to take control of it,
and helped plan its record-breaking historic four-day flight from Germany
to the United States. After years of experiments meant to determine its
military and commercial application, the airship ultimately failed to command
a consensus in the Navy. "Relegated to a lower tier," Althoff writes, "the
rigid type receded to marginal relevance until, on the eve of World War
Two, it vanished altogether." In this book, the early achievements and
unceremonious demise of the Los Angeles after a long career symbolize the
airship’s unfulfilled promise. Nonetheless, the operational record of
this one machine altered American naval aeronautics and greatly influenced
transoceanic commercial air transport during a critical period of its development.
Hardcover from Brasseys, Inc.
Book Published: December, 2003 |
| |
The
Wellman Polar Airship Expeditions
P.J. Capelotti
In 1993, an expedition to Danes Island in Svalbard discovered the wrecks
of Walter Wellman's polar airships, used on his attempted flights to the
Pole in 1906, 1907, and 1909.
Paperback - 118 pages 1 edition (July 7, 1997)
Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway)/Pictorial Histories
(USA); ISBN: 8276661270
Zeppelin: Rigid Airships 1893-1940
by Peter Brooks
Listed under Zeppelins
When
Giants Roamed the Sky: Karl Arnstein and the Rise of Airships from Zeppelin
to Goodyear
by Dale Topping, Eric Brothers, A. Dale Topping
Hardcover from University of Akron Press
Book Published: 01 November, 2000
Special Order
American Airship Bases & Facilities
James R. Shock
Paperback / Published 1995
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Dirigible and the Future
Henry Ambes
Paperback / Published 1981
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
U.S.S. Los Angeles : Navy's Venerable Airship & Aviation Technology
by William F. Althoff
(Hardcover - December 2001)
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Did W.D. Custead Fly First? : The Story of W.D. Custead of Elm Mott-
Waco, Texas - Airship Builder Before the Wrights Flew
Nick Pocock
Paperback / Published 1974
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
Sky Ships : A History of the Airship in the United States Navy
William A. Althoff
Paperback / Published 1998
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
The Airmen Who Would Not Die
John Fuller
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
R100 : Her Voyage to Canada
Barry Countryman
Hardcover / Published 1982
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
>> Click
here for top sellers in Aviation
Related
Books
