Sky Ships

Download or read book Sky Ships written by William F Althoff and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition— complete with two hundred new photographs—to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication. Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin— ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.

Download or read book The Great Dirigibles written by John Toland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents first-hand accounts of the men and the machines involved in dirigible flight over its sixty-year history

Download or read book Sky-ships written by Alfred Cecil Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sky is Filled with Ships written by Richard C. Meredith and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1988-11-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modeling Ships and Space Craft written by Gina Hagler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky begins with the theories of Aristotle and Archimedes, moving on to examine the work of Froude and Taylor, the early aviators and the Wright Brothers, Goddard and the other rocket men, and the computational fluid dynamic models of our time. It examines the ways each used fluid dynamic principles in the design of their vessels. In the process, this book covers the history of hydrodynamic (aero and fluid) theory and its progression – with some very accessible science examples – including seminal theories. Hydrodynamic principles in action are also explored with examples from nature and the works of man. This is a book for anyone interested in the history of technology – specifically the methods and science behind the use of scale models and hydrodynamic principles in the marine and aeronautical designs of today.

Download or read book Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure written by Vashti Hardy and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twins Arthur and Maudie receive word that their father died in a failed attempt to reach South Polaris. But a mysterious clue leads the twins to question the story they've been told, and they join the crew of a new exploration attempt in the hope of learning the truth. Will Arthur and Maudie find the answers they seek?

Download or read book Skyships Over Innsmouth written by Susan Laine and published by DSP Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will airship captain Dev and scholar Shay survive an expedition to Innsmouth, a town with horrors beyond imagining?