Battlebags is the first book to record and describe in detail every single airship built or used by Great Britain during the First World War. The background to each class is given together with details on individual airships, including where they were built and stationed, their known crews, plus technical information and particulars of notable flights and total hours flown. The author, Ces Mowthorpe, also describes the development of the airship in the years leading up to the First World War and the part it was destined to play in the years that followed.

Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War : An Illustrated History

Engineering & Transportation

Mowthorpe, Ces

Engineering

Sutton Pub Ltd

Affectionately named "battlebags" by their crews and "pigs" by the local civilian inhabitants, Royal Navy Air Service airships were a familiar sight around Britains's shores. At least 226 airships of all types were built and operated by the Royal Navy during the war in a bid to beat the deadly German U-boat menace. This book describes the development of the airship in the years leading up to World War I and the part it was destined to play in the years that followed. The background to each class is given together with details of individual airships, including where they were built and stationed, their crews and technical information.

Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War an Illustrated History

The stories of the men who pioneered a mode of air transport that today is virtually forgotten features first-hand accounts by airshipmen from England, Germany, Italy, and the United States During the period 1890 to 1910, airshipmen greatly outnumbered airplane pioneers, but aircraft innovations, two World Wars, and airship disasters brought the time of the airship to an end. The exploits of these intrepid men are placed on record in this account beginning in 1890s Paris, moving on to examine the blimps and zeppelins of World War I, interwar developments, America's use of massive airships to carry aircraft and smaller airships for anti-submarine patrols in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II, civilian operators, and the fatal disasters of the Hindenberg, R101, and Shenandoah. This fascinating and fully illustrated study will inspire and appeal to all with an interest in aviation history.

Sky Sailors: The Story of the World's Airshipmen

History

Military

The History Press

First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, an illustrated reference based on thirty years research, which records and describes in detail every airship built or used by Great Britain during the First World War.

Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War

Wrens Park Publishing

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Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War : An Illustrated History

Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War an Illustrated History

Sky Sailors: The Story of the World's Airshipmen

Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War