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Airship : design, development and disaster / John Swinfield.
- Title
- Airship : design, development and disaster / John Swinfield.
- Author
- Swinfield, John.
- Publication
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2012.
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- Description
- 336 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published: London : Conway, 2012.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-326) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Birth of the airship -- The British airship stations -- Control, commercial opportunity and controversy -- Triumph, catastrophe and cover-up -- An aerial Navy -- Glued to the Earth -- The New Order -- Design and building of the R101 -- Tragedy at Beauvais: The R101 disaster -- Italy, Norway and Russia -- Aircraft carriers of the sky: America's airships -- The mighty Graf and the Hindenburg calamity -- Epilogue: Will the airship sail again?
- ISBN
- 9781591140344 (hbk.)
- 159114034X (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012948515
- OCLC
- 825817852
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library