By
Airship to the North Pole : An Archaeology of Human Exploration
P. J. Capelotti
The first two attempts to reach this remote and frigid outpost by air are examined,
starting with a failed 1897 attempt by Swedish engineer Salomon August Andre who history
has dubbed as either a lunatic or an idiot: his balloon needed to stay up for a month, but
would only hold enough hydrogen gas for a few days. It disappeared forever, as did he and
two crew. Dropbears.com
Hardcover - 224 pages (September 1999)
Rutgers Univ Press; ISBN: 0813526337
The
Wellman Polar Airship Expeditions
P.J. Capelotti
In 1993, an expedition to Danes Island in Svalbard discovered the wrecks of Walter
Wellman's polar airships, used on his attempted flights to the Pole in 1906, 1907, and
1909.
Paperback - 118 pages 1 edition (July 7, 1997)
Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway)/Pictorial Histories (USA); ISBN:
8276661270
Airship
Technology (Cambridge Aerospace Series, 10)
G. A. Khoury(Editor), J. David Gillett (Editor)
Hardcover - 400 pages (April 1999)
Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521430747
Battlebags
: British Airships of the First World War an Illustrated History
by Ces Mowthorpe
This is a fully illustrated history of the Royal Naval Air Service airships,
affectionately named "battlebags" by their crews and "pigs" by the
local civilian inhabitants, which became mighty weapons against the deadly German U-boat
menace in WW I. Amazon.com
Paperback - 256 pages (April 1998)
Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750915188
Disaster
at the Pole : The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the
North Pole
by Wilbur Cross
Hardcover - 316 pages (September 2000)
The Lyons Press; ISBN: 1585740497
The
Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
by John McPhee
Since the explosion of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey, energy-efficient,
lighter-than-air ships have given way to gas-guzzling jet aircraft. But in the 1960s, an
unusual band of inventors, engineers and investors, again in New Jersey, created the
Aereon, a strange, wingless hybrid airplane/dirigible. The Aereon--the Deltoid Pumpkin
Seed-- promised to be a safe workhorse of the skies, capable of carrying the payload of
entire freight trains with minimal cost.
In this exquisitely crafted tale of back-to-the-drawing-board perseverance, McPhee
tells the story not only of the Aereon, but of any product development team. He astutely
delineates the team members' personalities and interactions, delves back in time to the
origins of lighter-than-air craft and the history of propellers, and in the end, makes us
wonder why this promising technology hasn't been perfected. Like Aramis: Or the Love of
Technology, this is a splendid book about a potentially superior aircraft which has
yet to be adopted.
Paperback (May 1981)
Noonday Pr; ISBN: 0374516359
The
Great Texas Airship Mystery
Wallace Chariton, et al
Between 1896-1897, Texas was churning with reports of a cigar-shaped airship ...
Hardcover / Published 1991
The
Great Dirigibles : Their Triumphs and Disasters
by John Toland
Paperback revised edition (June 1972)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486213978
Hot
Air Balloons : Flights of Fancy and Fantasy
by Ailsa Spindler, Clive McFadden
Hardcover - 80 pages (December 1999)
Todtri Productions Ltd; ISBN: 1577171594
Inside
the Hindenburg
by Mireille Majoor, Ken Marschall (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 32 pages (November 2000)
Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd); ISBN: 0316123862
Lighter
Than Air : Illustrated History of the Development of Hot Air Balloons and Airships
by David Owen
Hardcover - 160 pages (September 1999)
Book Sales; ISBN: 0785810455
Man
Flies : The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon, Conqueror of the Air
by Nancy Winters (Hardcover - September 1998)
National
Geographic's Hindenburg's Fiery Secret
VHS
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• ASIN: B00003OSU0
Golden
Age of the Great Passenger Airships; Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg
Harold G. Dick, Douglas H. Robinson (Contributor)
Paperback / Published 1992
The
Zeppelin Reader : Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age of Airships
by Robert Hedin (Editor)
Paperback - 314 pages (May 1998)
Univ of Iowa Pr; ISBN: 0877456291
From
Airship to Spaceship : Long Island in Aviation and Spaceflight
Joshua Stoff
Hardcover / Published 1991
Dr.
Eckener's Dream Machine : The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel
by Douglas Botting
For the decade preceding World War II, the last word in transoceanic travel belonged to
rigid airships--dirigibles. Douglas Botting's Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine traces
the development and demise of these huge machines, which he calls a "supreme example
of one evolutionary branch of aeronautical development." Amazon.com
Hardcover - 352 pages 1 Ed edition (October 2001)
Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; ISBN: 0805064583
Zeppelin!
: Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939
by Guillaume De Syon
"A well-written and stimulating study of the Zeppelin in German culture and a
valuable contribution to the social history of technology." —Mike Neufeld,
National Air and Space Museum
Hardcover - 295 pages (December 2001)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801867347
When
Giants Roamed the Sky: Karl Arnstein and the Rise of Airships from Zeppelin to Goodyear
by Dale Topping, Eric Brothers (Editor) (Paperback)
U.S.S.
Los Angeles : Navy's Venerable Airship & Aviation Technology
by William F. Althoff (Hardcover - December 2001)
The
Hindenburg
by Patrick O'Brien
(School & Library Binding - October 2000)
R101
: The Airship Disaster, 1930
by Tim Coates (Editor) (Paperback - April 2001)
The
Airship
by Christopher Sprigg, Adam Starchild (Afterword)
Since the early days of practical aviation, the rival claims of heavier-than-air and
lighter-than-air craft have been a subject more of controversy than constructive comment.
Indeed, those who have studied the history of aeronautics will be aware that man's desire
for the conquest of the air has run in two channels. For one the goal is a real air
"ship", the "clipper of the clouds" that Jules Verne so admirably
anticipated - for the other it is a pair of wings, for which men will "call as
familiarly as for their boots" - a kind of aerial motor car. The lighter-than-air
craft and the heavier-than-air craft translate these two desires into practical
terms. Amazon.com
Paperback - 258 pages (July 2001)
Lightning Source; ISBN: 0898753651
The
Zeppelin in Combat
A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918
by Douglas H. Robinson
Hardcover (February 1994)
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN: 088740510X
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My
Zeppelins
Hugo, Eckener / Hardcover / Published 1979
The author, Dr. Hugo Eckner, was the driving force behind the Luftshiffbau Zeppelin, the
company that produced the huge airships.
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American
Airship Bases & Facilities
James R. Shock / Paperback / Published 1995
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Dirigible
and the Future
Henry Ambes / Paperback / Published 1981
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Did
W.D. Custead Fly First? : The Story of W.D. Custead of Elm Mott- Waco, Texas - Airship
Builder Before the Wrights Flew
Nick Pocock / Paperback / Published 1974
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