Airships
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Websites
The Zeppelin Ring
http://d.webring.com/webring?ring=zeppring;list
Links to over 20 major sites concerned with Zeppelins and other rigid airships.
Zeppelin Library Archive
www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA.html
Enthusiast’s history of the Zeppelin, with lots of photographs.
Zeppelin
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/zf/introduction.htm
Oddly organised website that ‘gives you a place to begin learning about
both the history and the present of the Zeppelin airships’.
Airship
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship/
introduction.htm
Website created by same person as Zeppelin (above), which
provides information on all sorts of lighter-than-air craft, past and present.
Airship: DJ’s Zeppelin Page
www.airships.net
Very good photographs of the original Zeppelin airships, plus reproductions
of various important documents.
The Mastery of the Air
www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/engineering/
TheMasteryoftheAir/toc.html
The complete text of a book that tells the story of aviation from hot air balloons
to aeroplanes. Contains a good section on airships.
Books
Dr Eckener's Dream Machine: The historic saga of the round-the-world
Zeppelin by Douglas Botting (HarperCollins, 2002)
The story of the Graf Zeppelin's
amazing round-the-world flight in 1929 – the first-ever passenger circumnavigation
by air. Based on the reports and recollections of those on board, including
Lady Grace Drummond-Hay and the airship's creator and commander Hugo Eckener.
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The
Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg by
Harold G Dick and Douglas H Robinson (Prentice Hall/IBD, 1992)
Information
about the design, construction, and operation of the two German dirigibles
between 1934 and 1938. Co-author Harold Dick was the US representative
of the Goodyear-Zeppelin joint venture and lived and worked at Friedrichshafen
and flew in both the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg.
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The
Great Dirigibles: Their triumphs and disasters by John Toland
(Dover, rev ed 1972)
Investigates the origins of airships and includes many
pre-Zeppelin-era narratives and first-hand accounts.
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Zeppelin! Germany and the airship, 1900-1939 by Guillaume de
Syon (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
De Syon chronicles the various
ways in which the airships were used – transport,
war, exploration and propaganda – and details the attempts by successive
German governments (autocratic, democratic, Fascist) to co-opt Count Zeppelin's
invention.
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