Airships

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846424
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airships written by Barry Hannah and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick

Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781847971616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Airships written by John Christopher and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Transatlantic Airships, John Christopher recounts the fascinating story of the lighter-than-air 'pond hoppers' from the earliest schemes and bold pioneering flights, including the triumphant double-crossing by the R34. The book goes on to describe the rise of the Zeppelins and the ambitious British scheme to connect its far-flung Empire, the US Navy's lighter-than-air craft and the incredible post-war proposals for colossal atomic-powered leviathans. It is a story of fantastic visionaries, incredible flying machines, great moments of triumph and, ultimately, of spectacular disaster. AUTHOR John Christopher started flying balloons in the 1980s and has flown almost every size from tiny one-man cloudhoppers to huge people-carriers. He is also a journalist and author specializing in all aspects of aviation. For twelve years he edited Aerostat, the journal of British Balloon & Airship Club. ILLUSTRATIONS 250 colour photos *

Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Giant Airships written by Douglas Botting and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime air ships, epic of flight.

Author : G. A. Khoury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521607537
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airship Technology written by G. A. Khoury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and indispensable guide to modern airship design and operation, for researchers and professionals working in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

Author : Charles Paine Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airship Design written by Charles Paine Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter W. Brooks
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zeppelin written by Peter W. Brooks and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers rigid airships from their beginnings in 19th-century Germany until World War II and examines their role in both civil and military aviation. It gives the development histories of 163 different airships constructed during that period in Germany, Britain, France and the USA.

Author : Arthur Frederick Daubeney Eveleigh-de Moleyns Baron Ventry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane's Pocket Book of Airships written by Arthur Frederick Daubeney Eveleigh-de Moleyns Baron Ventry and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Piesing
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062851543
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book N-4 Down written by Mark Piesing and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . . During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships. But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls. In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration, Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice flows,unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival. Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . . Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of earth’s extremes.

Author : Sam Witt
Publisher : Bastion Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781592630004
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airships written by Sam Witt and published by Bastion Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While some choose to sail the seas and oceans seeking trade, adventure, and fame, others are more daring and sail the skies of their worlds. Discover the wonders of flight and the beauty of sailing the winds from many different methods and in many different forms. After all, no one race dominates the skies?save those that need no ships and jealously guard their skies. Like sea captains traversing dangerous waters and unknown menaces, airship captains must face the wrath of the aerial realms in the forms of dragons and other invisible dangers that pose great risk to their airships Airships provides all the rules necessary to bring flying ships into any campaign setting. Construction rules, combat, aerial and 3D movement, and other essential information is all covered. Also included are deck plans and specifications for a number of ships. Airships will bring new heroes to the fore when a village under siege cries "Look! Up in the sky!"

Author : Zenon C. R. Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goodyear Airships written by Zenon C. R. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: