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They Sailed the Skies: U.S.Navy Balloons and the Airship Program |
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Price: $23.00 |
By: J. Gordon Vaeth |
Book examines the U.S. Navy's lighter-than-air, manned balloon service from the Golden Age of Aviation through the Strato-Lab program of the 1950s and '60s. You'll read about the first flight of the DN-1 dirigible in 1916; the development of the rigid airships Akron, Macon, Shenandoah and Los Angeles; the successful racing career of top Navy balloonist Thomas
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160 pages, HB w/dust jacket, 7.25x10.25, 172 pgs, 50 b&w photographs. |
They Sailed the Skies: U.S.Navy Balloons and the Airship Program |
ISBN Number: 9781591149149
Item Number: 1446
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