The Airships Akron & Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States NavyU.S. Naval Institute, 1965 - 228 σελίδες Richard K. Smith was curious about the big rigid airships of the 1920s and 1930s. He wondered why they had disappeared from the scene of aeronautics. Two of them, the Akron and the Macon, had actually hangared airplanes. Why had such an airplane-carrying airship not been accepted? His inability to find answers to his questions in existing airship literature prompted his extensive research on the subject. As a result, this book is primarily an examination of the rigid airship's place in naval operations in the period 1919-1940, with specific focus on the flying aircraft carrier's development and performance during 1931-1935. |
Περιεχόμενα
Our Hearts Our Hopes | 31 |
Off to the Wars | 93 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Crucial Year | 107 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Years of Confusion | 163 |
CHAPTER TWELVE The Performance | 171 |
Akron and Macon | 180 |
Macon | 181 |
Curtiss F9C | 185 |
Design and Construction | 187 |
The Skyhook Airplanes | 199 |
Macon and World War II Flying Boats | 207 |
Notes | 209 |
Bibliography | 219 |
Index | 225 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
The Airships Akron & Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy Richard K. Smith Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1965 |
The Airships Akron & Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy Richard K. Smith Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 1965 |
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