The Story of the Airship (Non-rigid) / A Study of One of America's Lesser Known Defense Weapons
by Hugh Allen
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About This Book
Originally published in 1931, this is the story of the lighter-than-air ship. It is not generally known that the first passenger-carrying flight was made in 1783, more than a century before the Wright brothers - or that flying really began with lighter-than-air craft. Benjamin Franklin was one of the witnesses of these earliest flights and wrote home to friends in America about them.
Chapters (16)
- The Story of THE AIRSHIP (NON-RIGID)
- Dedication
- Foreword
- CHAPTER I German Submarines in American Waters
- CHAPTER II British Airships in the First War
- Blimps Used to Search for U-Boats
- CHAPTER III American Airships in Two Wars
- CHAPTER IV The Beginnings of Flight
- CHAPTER V Effect on Aeronautics of Post-War Reaction
- CHAPTER VI Airship Improvements Between Wars
- CHAPTER VII Adventures of the Goodyear Fleet
- CHAPTER VIII Results of Fleet Operations
- CHAPTER IX Vulnerability of Airships
- References
- Index
- Footnotes
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