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SHIPS IN THE SKY . GREAT AIRSHIP DISATERS OF THE WORLD
BY
JOHN TOLAND
PUBLISHED ; MULLER
HARD BACK
FIRST EDITION 1957
‘At 7.25 p.m. on May 6th, 1937, the giant dirigible Hindenburg was poised for a landing at its mooring mast at Lakehurst, New ]ersey. Exactly thirty-four seconds later the airship was a white-hot skeleton on the ground. The final toll: thirty-six dead —— thirteen r passengers, twenty-two crewmen, and one member of the ground crew. Those thirty-four seconds put an end to the dreams of centuries, the experiments of fifty years, the brilliant and dangerous twenty years in which lighter-than-air flight seemed to be a practical reality. Millions had seen the great dirigibles floating majestically overhead—silver monsters that seemed too vast to fly; and none who saw them failed to feel a certain regret at their demise. In Ships In The Sky John Toland tells the whole story of dirigibles, of the adventurous men who developed them and flew them, of the great flights and death flights that made them admired and feared beyond all other means of transportation. He tells of Santos-Dumont, the dapper little Brazilian millionaire, whose aerial escapades over Paris won him international fame and the affectionate nick-name of “Santos-Dismount”; and of the spectacular progress of the dirigible in Germany under Count von Zeppelin and Dr. Hugo Eckener. And upon the climactic chapters of airship history John Toland lavishes the kind of intense, minute-by-minute reportage that made every reader of A Night To Remember an eyewitness to the sinking of the Titanic. He describes the terrible half-hour over Ada, Ohio, when the Shenandoah, caught between two line squalls, was gradually twisted and torn apart as if by two giant hands; the momentous flights of General Umberto Nobile, and his harrowing thirty days on polar ice with the survivors of the Italia; what happened to the R-38 and R-I01,‘ and how passengers, crew, ground crew, and eyewitnesses survived the demoniac thirty-four-second blaze of the Hindenburg. The great ships, the great adventures, the great airshipmen—all are here, established by creative research and presented in an almost photographic prose.
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