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 United States Navy K Type Airships Pilot s Manual written by Goodyear Aircraft Corporation and published by Periscope Film LLC. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, the U.S. Navy ordered a new class of Goodyear-built blimps with an envelope of over 400,000 cubic feet of helium. The "K" class carried a forty-foot long control car and were powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engines. They were intended to be used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) duties. In addition to navigational equipment that allowed night flights, the blimps were equipped with the ASG-type radar, that had a detection range of 90mi (140km), sonobuoys, and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment. The K-ships also carried four Mk-47 depth bombs, two in a bomb bay and two externally, and were equipped with a .50in (12.7mm) Browning machine gun in the forward part of the control car. An aircrew of 10 normally operated the K-ships, consisting of a command pilot, two co-pilots, a navigator/pilot, airship rigger, an ordnanceman, two mechanics, and two radiomen. This Goodyear-issued official U.S. Navy Pilot's Manual is a reproduction of an original issued in 1942. It discusses the airship and its flight controls, the envelope pressure control system, power plant and electrical system, and more. Originally "restricted," this manual was declassified long ago."

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Download or read book United States Navy G type Airships written by Goodyear Aircraft Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Up Ship written by Douglas Hill Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dirigible Airships written by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on interstate and foreign commerce and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book USS Los Angeles written by William F. Althoff and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation historian William Althoff tells the story of the U.S. Navy??'s airship, USS "Los Angeles," the most successful aircraft of its type ever flown. In dramatic detail, Althoff recounts how the U.S. Navy arranged for the famed German Zeppelin Company to build the ship, thwarted schemes by the U.S. Army??'s Air Service to take control of it, and helped plan its record-breaking, historic four-day flight from Germany to the United States. After years of experiments meant to determine its military and commercial application, the airship ultimately failed to command a consensus in the Navy. ???Relegated to a lower tier, ??? Althoff writes, ???the rigid type receded to marginal relevance until, on the eve of World War Two, it vanished altogether.??? In this book, the early achievements and unceremonious demise of the "Los Angeles" after a long career symbolize the airship??'s unfulfilled promise. Nonetheless, the operational record of this one machine altered American naval aeronautics and greatly influenced transoceanic commercial air transport during a critical period of its development.

Download or read book United States Navy K type Airships written by Goodyear Aircraft Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Naval Aviation 1919 1941 written by E.R. Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within six months of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy had checked the Japanese military advance in the Pacific to the extent that the United States could return to its original "Defeat Germany First" strategy. That the Navy was able to accomplish this feat with only six fleet aircraft carriers and little more than 1,000 combat aircraft was not sheer luck but the culmination of more than two decades of determined preparation. This thorough study, with detailed drawings and photographs, explains and illustrates the trial and error process which went into developing the aircraft, airships and ships of the interwar period. The critical factors that shaped Naval Aviation after World War I--naval treaties, fleet tactics, government programs, leadership and organization, as well as the emergence of Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviation--are discussed in depth.

Download or read book United States Navy L type Airships written by Goodyear Aircraft Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forgotten Weapon written by William F. Althoff and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airships are the forgotten weapon of World War II. Forgotten Weapons analyzes the development of airships as weapons for antisubmarine warfare, examines how scientists and airmen collaborated to combat U-boats and reveals the little-known accomplishments of airship crews. As William F. Althoff demonstrates, the naval airship logged an admirable operational record during the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continued armed contest during the war. Their useful deployment depended first, however, on effective collaboration between naval airmen and government-sponsored research institutions, such as the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC). The Battle of the Atlantic saw a race to gain technological advantage German measures met by Allied counter measures with both sides producing various weapons and sensors designed either to destroy or to protect Allied merchant shipping. For the antisubmarine campaign, U.S. contract laboratories devised the magnetic airborne detector (MAD), microwave radar, the Loran long-range navigation systems, radio sono-buoys, and pattern ordnance, all of which were fitted to airships. Key NDRC projects exploited lighter-than-air platforms for airborne tests. Hurried into production, special devices for antisubmarine warfare were fitted onto fleet airships as well as in airplanes and surface forces. The result turned the tide against the U-boat menace and saved countless lives, supplies, and shipping. This book is an invaluable history and reference for readers interested in airships, antisubmarine warfare, the Battle of the Atlantic, and the bygone squadrons of unique airmen who helped defeat the Nazi war on commerce from 1939 to 1945.

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Download or read book United States Navy K Type Airships Pilot s Manual written by Federal Aviation Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information herein is designed to embody only such material as may be of value to the pilot and the crew of the K-airship during flight operations. Further descriptive matter vital to the ship and its care is set forth in the Specification and Maintenance Manuals.While this manual is not intended to serve as an infallible guide for all flight operations, some of the more advanced points of aerostatics are included for ready reference.