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The Zeppelin - An Illustrated History (Paperback)
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The Zeppelin - An Illustrated History (Paperback)
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For a brief period in the early Twentieth Century it seemed as if
the future of air travel lay with the giant airships of Count von
Zeppelin. The First World War ended that dream, fixed wing aircraft
superseding the slow moving and unwieldy airships. As weapons of
war the Zeppelins were never truly successful although they did
manage to terrify huge numbers of unknowing and naive
civilians-perhaps more by imagination than by any practical
manifestation of their power. The Zeppelin crews of the First World
War spent hours in the air, cold and hungry-and with the prospect
of a horrendous death, either by fire or by falling thousands of
feet to the ground, ever present. As vehicles of mass destruction
the Zeppelins were remarkably ineffective. Their real value, lay in
their ability to make silent reconnaissance missions over enemy
territory and sea lanes. In the post-war days the public began to
realise that airships offered a form of air travel that was
comfortable, mostly stable and, sometimes, even luxurious. The
'Graf Zeppelin' and the 'Hindenburg' were the height of
elegance.Unfortunately, they had two major defects-they were
vulnerable to the elements and, due to the hydrogen that kept them
aloft, they were also highly flammable. The 'Hindenburg' disaster
of 1937 effectively spelled the end of the giant airship as a
commercial enterprise but for almost half a century these wonderful
machines had cruised elegantly through the clouds.
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