When Giants Ruled the Sky : The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0750987839
ISBN-13
9780750987837
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Imprint
The History Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 29th, 2021
Weight
838 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 24.10 x 4.00 cms
Ksh 4,500.00
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How the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant long-distance transport
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 worlds 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 hairs 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.
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