Author: Dan Grossman
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750989916
Category : Aircraft accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A wealth of research has gone into collating the definitive photographic record of Zeppelin Hindenburg
Zeppelin Hindenburg
Author: Dan Grossman
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750989916
Category : Aircraft accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A wealth of research has gone into collating the definitive photographic record of Zeppelin Hindenburg
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750989916
Category : Aircraft accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A wealth of research has gone into collating the definitive photographic record of Zeppelin Hindenburg
The Illustrated London News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Zeppelins
Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Hindenburg
Author: Rick Archbold
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446517843
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A history of dirigible flight describes travel aboard the luxury German airship, the Hindenburg, and details its 1937 demise
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446517843
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
A history of dirigible flight describes travel aboard the luxury German airship, the Hindenburg, and details its 1937 demise
Scientific American
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 2134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 2134
Book Description
Empires of the Sky
Author: Alexander Rose
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812989996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812989996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
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.
Airships in International Affairs 1890 - 1940
Author: J. Duggan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403920095
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403920095
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
The Illustrated London News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Zeppelin
Author: Peter W. Brooks
Publisher: Brassey's
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Brassey's
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
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.