The Great Airships Of Count Zeppelin

Author : Werner Behrends
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781329610187
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Airships of Count Zeppelin written by Werner Behrends and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Airships of Count Zeppelin explores Ferdinand von Zeppelin's life, legacy, and his great airships. The operational history, design, and characteristics of many of his great airships are included in this edition. Also serves as an excellent reference source. (Military, HIstory, Aircraft)

Author : Guillaume de Syon
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886348
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zeppelin! written by Guillaume de Syon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six decades later, there is still a mystique surrounding these technological leviathans, one that Zeppelin! addresses with insight and wit.

Author : Peter W. Brooks
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zeppelin written by Peter W. Brooks and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexander Rose
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812989988
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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 : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780965125
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zeppelins written by Charles Stephenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 2 July 1900 the people of Friedrichshafen, Germany, witnessed a momentous occasion the first flight of LZ 1, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's first airship. Although deemed a failure, a succession of better craft (LZ2 to 10) enabled the Zeppelin to expand into the consumer market of airship travel, whilst also providing military craft for the German Army and Navy. The years of the Great War saw the Zeppelins undertake strategic bombing missions against Great Britain. This title covers the post-war fate of the Zeppelins, including the crash of the Hindenburg, and their use by the Luftwaffe at the beginning of World War II.

Author : Ernst August Lehmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zeppelin written by Ernst August Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough first person account of zeppelins, their history and flights. This book was being translated by Leonhard Adelt, who was on board with Lehmann as a guest during the Hindenburg's last flight. The book had recently been published in German when the Hindenburg was destroyed. The English translation, completed by Jay Dratler, was published in 1937 with a preface and closing chapter by American airship captain Charles E. Rosendahl, who had interviewed Lehman on his deathbed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_A._Lehmann

Author : Harry Vissering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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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 : Harry Vissering
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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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 : Douglas Botting
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 9780805064582
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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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 : Harold Dick
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344444
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships written by Harold Dick and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the extensive photographs, notes, diaries, reports, recorded data, and manuals he collected during his five years at the Zeppelin Company in Germany, from 1934 through 1938, Harold G. Dick tells the story of the two great passenger Zeppelins. Against the background of German secretiveness, especially during the Nazi period, Dick's accumulation of material and pictures is extraordinary. His original photographs and detailed observations on the handling and flying of the two big rigids constitute the essential data on this phase of aviation history.