Airship
Subtitle: design, development and disaster
By: John Swinfield
Publisher: Conway
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781844861385
Subjects: Airships; History; Pictorial works; Warfare and Defence
Description: Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stations in the Great War, Germany's pre-eminent commercial and military zeppelins, the construction of British behemoths R100 and its sister ship R101 and the calamitous losses of USS Akron in 1933 and LZ129 Hindenburg in 1937, events which ultimately heralded the end of large-scale airship production.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.