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ZEPPELIN: RIGID AIRSHIPS 1893-1940

by Peter W. Brooks

Published by Putnam. 1st. 1992

Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos.

Damp staining to bottom edge of covers and to pages throughout - also to bottom of wrapper. The damp has caused wrinkling to pages internally, but still readable (don't appear stuck together). Wrapper also has some edge-creasing.

ISBN: 0851778453
Stock no. 2136264

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Contents

  • Introduction and Acknowledgements
  • Origins of Buoyant Flight
  • First Balloons
  • Dirigible Balloons
  • Pressure-Airships
  • Rigid Airship Concept
  • Schwarz and Zeppelin
  • Zeppelins LZ1 and LZ2
  • Zeppelin over the Alps - LZ3 and LZ4/5
  • Echterdingen - LZ3A and LZ4/5
  • Zeppelins for the Army - LZ6 ('ZIII')
  • DELAG - LZ7 Deutschland and LZ8 Ersatz Deutschland
  • HM Airship No.1 Mayfly
  • French Rigid - Zodiac Spiess
  • Britain Tries Again - Vicker No.9
  • The Schwaben class - LZ9, 10 and 11
  • Civil Zeppelins - LZ11 Viktoria Luise and LZ13 Hansa
  • Military and Naval Zeppelins
  • Zeppelins Go to War - Types h, i, k, l and m
  • Zeppelin Types n and o
  • Wooden Rigids - Schutte-Lanz S.L.1-20
  • Million Cubic Feet Zeppelins - L10 and L20 classes
  • Super-Zeppelins - L30 class
  • Height-climbers - L48 and L53 classes and the Afrika-Zeppelins
  • Last Military Zeppelins - L70 class
  • British Rigids During and After the War - 23, 23X and 31 classes
  • Across the Atlantic - R33 and R34
  • R38 and R80
  • R36 and ZR-1 Shenandoah
  • Bodensee, Nordstern and Los Angeles
  • Sheds and Mooring Masts for Rigid Airships
  • British 1924 Airship Programme - R100 and R101
  • Most Famous Airship - LZ127 Graf Zeppelin
  • Last American Rigids - Akron and Macon
  • The Last Zeppelins - LZ129 Hindenburg and LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II
  • Notes
  • Appendices:
  • 1. Fixed and Movable Control Surfaces of Early Zeppelins
  • 2. Commercial Operations with Rigid Airships
  • 3. Operating Statistics of Rigid Airships
  • 4. Manufacture of Rigid Airships
  • 5. Characteristics of Rigid Airships
  • 6. Key to Rigid Airship Designations
  • 7. Rigid Airship Projects
  • 8. Atlantic Zeppelin Service Schedules
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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