Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Introduction and Acknowledgements
• Origins of Buoyant Flight
• First Balloons
• Dirigible Balloons
• Pressure-Airships
• Rigid Airship Concept
• Schwarz and Zeppelin
• Zeppelins LZ1 and LZ2
• Zeppelin over the Alps - LZ3 and LZ4/5
• Echterdingen - LZ3A and LZ4/5
• Zeppelins for the Army - LZ6 ('ZIII')
• DELAG - LZ7 Deutschland and LZ8 Ersatz Deutschland
• HM Airship No.1 Mayfly
• French Rigid - Zodiac Spiess
• Britain Tries Again - Vicker No.9
• The Schwaben class - LZ9, 10 and 11
• Civil Zeppelins - LZ11 Viktoria Luise and LZ13 Hansa
• Military and Naval Zeppelins
• Zeppelins Go to War - Types h, i, k, l and m
• Zeppelin Types n and o
• Wooden Rigids - Schutte-Lanz S.L.1-20
• Million Cubic Feet Zeppelins - L10 and L20 classes
• Super-Zeppelins - L30 class
• Height-climbers - L48 and L53 classes and the Afrika-Zeppelins
• Last Military Zeppelins - L70 class
• British Rigids During and After the War - 23, 23X and 31 classes
• Across the Atlantic - R33 and R34
• R38 and R80
• R36 and ZR-1 Shenandoah
• Bodensee, Nordstern and Los Angeles
• Sheds and Mooring Masts for Rigid Airships
• British 1924 Airship Programme - R100 and R101
• Most Famous Airship - LZ127 Graf Zeppelin
• Last American Rigids - Akron and Macon
• The Last Zeppelins - LZ129 Hindenburg and LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II
• Notes
• Appendices:
• 1. Fixed and Movable Control Surfaces of Early Zeppelins
• 2. Commercial Operations with Rigid Airships
• 3. Operating Statistics of Rigid Airships
• 4. Manufacture of Rigid Airships
• 5. Characteristics of Rigid Airships
• 6. Key to Rigid Airship Designations
• 7. Rigid Airship Projects
• 8. Atlantic Zeppelin Service Schedules
• Bibliography
• Index