Drawing on the extensive photographs, notes, diaries, reports,
recorded data, and manuals he collected during his five years at
the Zeppelin Company in Germany, from 1934 through 1938, Harold G.
Dick tells the story of the two great passenger Zeppelins. Against
the background of German secretiveness, especially during the Nazi
period, Dick''s accumulation of material and pictures is
extraordinary. His original photographs and detailed observations
on the handling and flying of the two big
內容簡介:
Drawing on the extensive photographs, notes, diaries, reports,
recorded data, and manuals he collected during his five years at
the Zeppelin Company in Germany, from 1934 through 1938, Harold G.
Dick tells the story of the two great passenger Zeppelins. Against
the background of German secretiveness, especially during the Nazi
period, Dick''s accumulation of material and pictures is
extraordinary. His original photographs and detailed observations
on the handling and flying of the two big rigids constitute the
essential data on this phase of aviation history.
關於作者:
Harold G. Dick, the only American to have made twenty-two
transatlantic crossings in the passenger airships, is an honorary
life member of the Lighter-Than-Air Society. He lives in Wichita,
Kansas.
Douglas H. Robinson, an aviation historian, is the author of
several books, including The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the
German Naval Airship Division, 1912-1918; Giants in the Sky; and,
with Charles L. Keller, “Up Ship!”: A History of the U.S. Navy''s
Rigid Airships, 1919-1935.