The Goodyear Airships - A Photograhic History, James Shock and David
Smith
Over 150 pages of informative text and tabular information
documenting 80 years of airship history. This edition incorporates color
sections and a foldout illustration that add excitement. 8 pages of
the reorganized tabular section enable readers to follow the history
and operation of over 75 commerical airships in a clear, concise manner.
Still Available is the Deluxe Hard Cover edition with 80 Years, Above
and Beyond: The Story Of The Goodyear Blimps. This dvd covers over
80 years of history in film and video, incluing interviews with historians
and the people who build and fly these airships.
Deluxe Hardcover Edition w/DVD - $40.00 each
Softcover - $29.95 each
Wirebound - $35.00 each
American Airship Bases & Facilities, James Shock
Most any question about airship hangars, masts and
handling can be answered by James Shock's second book. More than 200
illustrations that cover 100 years of airships in America. Maps, photographs,
240 pages.
$25.00 each
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United States Airships in World War II, VADM Charles E. Rosendahl
This 220 page book is partly Adm. Rosendahl's synopsis and interpretation of contact and action reports, war diaries and the unit histories of the dozen or so Atlantic Fleet blimp squadrons. It is also Adm. Rosendahl's personal recollection of his own role and particpation in the wartime airship program.
More than 80 photographs, soft cover.
$25.00 each
Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, Kevin Pace, Ron Montgomery & Rick
Zitarosa
This photo-essay explores the famed Naval Air Station
at Lakehurst from 1917 to the early 1970's. Images cover all eras of
its rich history; first as a proving ground, then as an airship station
and most recently as a Naval test site. Best known as the site of the
Hindenburg disaster, it successfully served numerous airships, all of
which are presented here. 128 pages, 200 + photos.
$19.95 each
The Airship Experience, Hans Von Schiller, "Ducky" Ward,
Charles Mills, C.E. Aldrich, Lundi Moore & Foreward by Rick Zitarosa
Personal Stories-from a zeppelin captain relating adventures
from WWI and flights aboard the Graf Zeppelin, to one man's Navy LTA
career during the rigid era and WWII, to the thoughts and deeds of skippers
of the biggest antisubmarine and radar picket blimps of the Cold War-are
told by the airshipmen who lived them.
$25.00 each |
US Army Airships 1908-1942, James Shock
This little known history of US Army LTA operations
begins with the Army Airship Service in the Balloon Corps. Soldier Airmen
tested and operated a diverse fleet of pressure airships. These soldiers
were the first Americans to lower a "spy basket" in flight,
the first to hook on an airplane in flight and the first to attempt
to refuel and service airplanes in flight. Numerous illustrations make
this book the history of US Army Airships. 220 pages, 200 illustrations,
softcover.
$25.00 each
SNAFU: The Strange Story of the American Airship, Vice Admiral Charles
E. Rosendahl, USN (Ret.)
The long lost expose of the US Navy's airship program
as seen by its most famous proponent C.E. Rosendahl. Read how "Pearl
Harbor" could have been prevented; what really happened to the
Akron, Macon and Hindenburg; how modern airships can serve. Thought
to have been rejected by the US Naval Institute Press circa 1960, it
is here restored with foreward by Hepburn Walker, Jr., and new fold-out
diagrams by Herman Van Dyk.
$35.00 each |
Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations, Donald Cann &
John J. Galuzzo
Quincy's Squantum peninsula first hosted pilots for
the 1909 Harvard Air Meet and by the 1930's it was the nations's first
naval reserve aviation training center. But because of heavy air traffic,
the navy moved inland to South Weymouth Naval Air Station. This book
covers everything from biplanes to blimps to bombers as it presents
naval aviation on the South Shore. 128 pages, 195 black and white photos.
$19.95 each
US Navy Airships 1915-1962, (revised 2001 edition), James Shock
It's back, bigger and better, includes detailed history
of each individual airship, including rigids and now declassified
combats of WWII. 215 pages, hundreds of rare and personal stills and
plans.
$25.00 each
Moffett Field, Nicholas A. Veronico
Witness the field’s full history, from its time as a US Navy
airship port, through its days serving the army and the air force,
to its present status as home to NASA Ames Research Center and the
world’s largest wind tunnel. 128 pages, 200 photographs.
$19.95 each
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