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When Giants Ruled the Sky - The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship (Hardcover)
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When Giants Ruled the Sky - The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship (Hardcover)
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Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917
and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their
airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more
enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the
future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean
liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and
even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been
scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of
how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of
dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of
four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going
despite the obstacles thrown in their way - until the Navy
deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme
crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth
from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first
time, what really happened can be revealed.
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