Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-03
Format: Online - approximately 574 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Ashcroft, Bruce
Article Excerpt
When Giants Roamed the Sky: Karl Arnstein and the Rise of Airships from Zeppelin to Goodyear. By Dale Topping, ed. by Eric Brothers. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2001. illustrations. Photographs. Appendices. Bibliography. Pp. xiv, 276. $27.95 ISBN: 1-884836-704
It may be hard for us to realize that in the early years of the 20th century the dirigible competed with the airplane for aerial supremacy Taken from the French "ballon dirigeable," or steerable balloon, the dirigible took to the air before the airplane and inspired...
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