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When Giants Ruled the Sky
The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
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Artikel-Nr:
9798874665548
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.06.2023
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Jeffrey Geoghegan
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jeffrey Geoghegan, PhD, is the author of The Time, Place, and Purpose of the Deuteronomistic History and coauthor, with David Noel Freedman and Michael Homan, of The Nine Commandments.
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 twenty 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.