Tag: Airship

His Majesty’s Airship The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine


Free Download His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine by S. C. Gwynne
English | May 2, 2023 | ISBN: 1982168277 | 320 pages | MOBI | 33 Mb
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a "captivating, thoroughly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship-and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian princess at its heart.

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Airship Design, Development and Disaster


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Conway | 2012 | ISBN: 1844861384 | English | 376 pages | PDF | 135.27 MB
Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stations in the Great War, Germany’s pre-eminent commercial and military zeppelins, the construction of British behemoths R100 and its sister ship R101 and the calamitous losses of USS Akron in 1933 and LZ129 Hindenburg in 1937, events which ultimately heralded the end of large-scale airship production.

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Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design Airship Design and Case Studies (2024)


Free Download Grant E. Carichner, Leland M. Nicolai, Bernd Chudoba, "Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design: Airship Design and Case Studies"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1600868983 | PDF | pages: 980 | 51.4 mb
undamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design, Volume 2 Airship Design and Case Studies examines a modern conceptual design of both airships and hybrids and features nine behind-the-scenes case studies. It will benefit graduate and upper-level undergraduate students as well as practicing engineers. The authors address the conceptual design phase comprehensively, for both civil and military airships, from initial consideration of user needs, material selection, and structural arrangement to the decision to iterate the design one more time. The book is the only available source of design instruction on single-lobe airships, multiple-lobe hybrid airships, and balloon configurations; on solar- and gasoline-powered airship systems, human-powered aircraft, and no-power aircraft; and on estimates of airship/ hybrid aerodynamics, performance, propeller selection, S&C, and empty weight. The book features numerous examples, including designs for airships, hybrid airships, and a high-altitude balloon; nine case studies, including SR-71, X-35B, B-777, HondaJet, Hybrid Airship, Daedalus, Cessna 172, T-46A, and hang gliders; and full-color photographs of many airships and aircraft.

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