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When Giants Ruled the Sky : The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship by John Geoghegan (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHi-Story Press The Limited, T.H.E.
ISBN-100750987839
ISBN-139780750987837
eBay Product ID (ePID)28050078581
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhen Giants Ruled the Sky : the Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAviation / History, Social History, General, Industries / Transportation
Publication Year2022
IllustratorYes
GenreTransportation, Business & Economics, History
AuthorJohn Geoghegan
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight29.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsTotally captivating. A fascinating account of glory and tragedy that soars with suspense. I enjoyed the hell out of it!, Totally captivating. A fascinating account of glory and tragedy that soars with suspense. I enjoyed the hell out of it! -- Dirk Cussler When Giants Ruled the Sky examines the successes, problems and controversies of the American rigid airship program bringing the industrialists and engineers who designed and built them, and the officers and men who flew them, to life. No airship fancier's library should be without a copy. -- Tom Crouch It's too often forgotten that for a few short years the U.S. Navy actually possessed flying aircraft carriers and the world's greatest airship fleet. In his latest book, John Geoghegan has performed sterling service in excavating the astounding story of the Akron and the Macon from the tomb of lost history. -- Alexander Rose A well-researched history of the rigid airship "carrier" during the interwar years of U.S. naval aeronautics. A genuine contribution. -- William Althoff This extremely readable and gripping new account of the US Navy rigid airship programme and the demise of its giant flying aircraft carriers Akron and Macon, draws on fresh statements and personal accounts to tell the story through the eyes of those directly involved. The best book on the subject by far. -- Alastair Reid The best book focused upon the USS Akron & Macon published in the last 55 years! -- C.P. Hall
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal629.13325
SynopsisHow the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant long-distance transport, Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Skyis the story of how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going despite the obstacles thrown in their way - until the Navy deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first time, what really happened can be revealed., Nearly everything people know about airships is wrong. Few realize that prior to the Hindenburg disaster airships transported passengers without a single casualty for more than 20 years, a record unmatched by any other form of transportation. When Giants Ruled the Sky tells the true but little-known story of the USS Macon (ZRS-5), the world's largest, most expensive and most technologically advanced airship of her day, and the four men responsible for conceiving, designing, building, and flying her. In doing so it reveals how the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as the dominant form of long-distance transportation, and exactly what went wrong, a tale of physical courage, engineering acumen, ugly politicking and two egregious disasters.
LC Classification NumberTL659
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