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Lighter than air : an illustrated history of the airship /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Lee
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Orion Books, ©1991.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Airships > History.
Airships.
Luftschiff
Geschichte
Luftschiff.
Geschichte.
Airships > History
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction [by Barry Goldwater]
  • The balloon
  • The search for dirigibility
  • Zeppelin, the man and his airships
  • The airship at war
  • Postwar airship enthusiasm
  • To the Arctic
  • Hugo Eckener and the Graf Zeppelin
  • The big ships
  • The end of the dream of rigid airships
  • World War II
  • Ballooning to the edge of space
  • The airship and the future
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.