Download or read book Lakehurst Naval Air Station Twenty Eighth written by Rick Zitarosa and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naval air station in Lakehurst, New Jersey, has a rich and bittersweet history steeped in success and tainted with tragedy. The area evolved from a gas warfare proving ground during World War I to the focal point of lighter-than-air operations in the United States. Labeled one of the world's first international airports, Lakehurst quickly became a hub of lighter-than-air activity. Although the dirigibles are no longer active, it remains crucial in the operational support of naval aviation as the Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst. Rare photographs and material from the archives of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society chronicle more than eighty-five years of base activity. Offering a unique glimpse of the people, the machines, and the background against which it has all unfolded, this volume examines Lakehurst's vital contributions to the development of aviation and national defense. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst explores the construction of the giant hangars and support buildings for the airships of the U.S. Navy and the glory days of the German zeppelin visits. The blimp programs from World War II through 1962 and the various schools and tenant commands turned the air station into a key component of naval aviation.
Download or read book Naval Air Station Lakehurst written by Kevin Pace and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rare photographs and material from the archives of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society chronicle more than eighty-five years of base activity."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps written by United States. Navy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Register of the Commission and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States Including Officers of the Marine Corps written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sky Ships written by William F Althoff and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition— complete with two hundred new photographs—to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication. Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin— ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.
Download or read book Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rear Admiral Herbert V Wiley written by Ernest Marshall and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is, simultaneously, a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.S. Navy’s lighter-than-air program. As tensions rose between Japan and the U.S. over control of East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the prospects of war between the two nations increased. The Navy tracked the Germans’ use of zeppelins during the First World War and saw in them an aircraft with the potential to conduct long-range reconnaissance over the oceans – something that could not be achieved by airplanes or surface ships. While rapid progress was being made in manned flight, it was still young enough that the future of LTA vs. HTA flight was unknown. At the time, however, airships had a much greater range than airplanes making them suitable for reconnaissance. In its history, the Navy had four great airships – the U.S.S. Shenandoah, the U.S.S. Los Angeles, the U.S.S. Akron, and the U.S.S. Macon. Wiley served on all four of these airships and the history of these vessels is covered through the career of Wiley. Three of the airships ended in disaster and Wiley survived the crash of two of them. The book explores in detail the events leading to the crash of each airship through examination of the records of the Navy’s Courts of Inquiry that investigated the cause of each crash. The book also tracks issues surrounding the use of non-flammable helium as a lifting gas instead of highly explosive hydrogen used by the Germans. The U.S. had a monopoly on the supply of helium. While Germany sought to purchase helium from the U.S., the government board governing the sale of helium blocked is availability to Germany on the basis it might be used for wartime purposes. Dr. Hugo Eckener had run the Zeppelin works in Friedrichshaven since the end of WWI and he had a vision for LTA flight that was peaceful, including international transoceanic passenger and freight services. The outbreak of WW II ended the zeppeling industry and dashed all of Eckener’s dreams. Following the crash of the Macon, Wiley returned to the surface fleet, eventually becoming Commander of Destroyer Squadron 29 in the Asiatic Fleet shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Download or read book Report written by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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