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When Giants Ruled the Sky
- The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
Engelsk Hardback
When Giants Ruled the Sky
- The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9780750987837
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0750987839
Udg. Dato:
29 okt 2021
Længde:
40mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
164mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
29 okt 2021
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