The great dirigibles : their triumphs and disasters /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Toland, John Willard 1912-2004 (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Thesis Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, Dover Publications c1972.
• Θέματα: Αεροπλάνα > Ιστορία.

Recounts the eighty-year history of dirigibles, from the American airships the Shenandoah, the Macon, and the Akron, to the German Hindenburg, and includes the disasters and triumphs of builders and aeronauts such as Dr. Solomon Andrews, the Brazilian Santos-Dumont, Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, the Nor...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prologue
• The amazing Dr. Sol
• The man in the wicker basket
• Phoenix at Echterdingen
• Ships at war
• The flying "Lemon"
• "Daughters of the stars"
• The line squall
• Breakup Flight of the Norge
• The Italia
• Wilderness of the ice
• The millionth chance
• "Queen of the skies"
• Three came back
• The happiest ship
• Down to the sea
• Twilight of the gods
• Epilogue.