British Airships, Past, Present, and Future

The Project Gutenberg EBook of British Airships, Past, Present, and Future, by George Whale This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: British Airships, Past, Present, and Future Author: George Whale Posting Date: August 16, 2008 [EBook #762] Release Date: November, 1996 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRITISH AIRSHIPS, PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE *** Produced by Dianne Bean. HTML version by Al Haines. British Airships: Past, Present and Future by George Whale (Late Major, R.A.F.) CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II EARLY AIRSHIPS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT TO THE PRESENT DAY CHAPTER III BRITISH AIRSHIPS BUILT BY PRIVATE FIRMS CHAPTER IV BRITISH ARMY AIRSHIPS CHAPTER V EARLY DAYS OF THE NAVAL AIRSHIP SECTION-- PARSEVAL AIRSHIPS, ASTRA-TORRES TYPE, ETC. CHAPTER VI NAVAL AIRSHIPS: THE NON-RIGIDS-- S.S. TYPE COASTAL AND C STAR AIRSHIPS THE NORTH SEA AIRSHIP CHAPTER VII NAVAL AIRSHIPS: THE RIGIDS RIGID AIRSHIP NO. 1 RIGID AIRSHIP NO. 9 RIGID AIRSHIP NO. 23 CLASS RIGID AIRSHIP NO. 23 X CLASS RIGID AIRSHIP NO. 31 CLASS RIGID AIRSHIP NO.