LTA Books & Documents from ABAC and Other Vendors

LTA BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS

from ABAC and other Providers

Please bookmark this page, as we are adding to it steadily. Also please note that we are looking for reviews of the various books listed, by people knowledgeable of LTA; reviewers will be credited, with full contact information, links and a brief "sig." If you know of any book or other document-in any language-that should be listed here but isn't, please let us know.
If you have a lighter-than-air document that is not in our Library List, consider donating a copy to A.B.A.C. We offer a two-for-one exchange: for every document we accept, we credit the donor with twice the number of photocopy sheets (or image frames) from our library. Example: you donate a 100-page airship technical manual; you can then obtain documents from our collection totalling 200 photocopies and pay only the postage, if any.
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Contact: Marc de Piolenc.

LTA Documents from ABAC's Technical Library:

We furnish reprints from 2000+ item library of LTA publications including technicalpapers, manuals, memoirs and historical works. Reprints are available to all researchers through Archivale.com.

US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics (LTA Section) Design Memoranda ("Burgess Memos") are available as reprints [list and links under construction].

Eagle Balloons: Build Your Own Balloon Click title for detailed description and to order from A.B.A.C.

Don James: Model Hot Air Blimps Click title for detailed description and to order from A.B.A.C.

LTA Books and Documents from Other Sources

Specialized Booksellers:

Valhalla Booksellers

Biography:

Der Traum vom Fliegen. Johann Schütte - Ein Pionier der Luftschifffahrt. Paperback biography of Prof. Schuette of Schuette-Lanz fame. Click the title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]

Engineering/Technical:

Jürgen K. Bock, Berthold Knauer: Leichter als Luft - Transport - Trägersysteme. Ballone - Luftschiffe - Plattformen
Khoury & Gillett:Airship Technology (Cambridge Aerospace...Click title to order from Amazon.com. Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk. The first general LTA engineering text since Burgess' Airship Design (1927).
Jeffrey Cook: An Engineering History of the ZRS-4/5 Fin Design. Meticulously researched, concisely written and profusely illustrated, this deserves to be the last word on the Akron/Macon "weak tailfin" controversy. Read Marc de Piolenc's review (which includes ordering instructions).

Exploration:

P.J. Capelotti: By Airship to the North Pole Click title to order from Amazon.com. Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk.
Wilbur Cross: Disaster at the Pole New edition of Ghost Ship of the Pole. Click title to order from Amazon.com
Siem: Mit dem Zeppelin um die Welt. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Zeppelin-Weltfahrten. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]

Hindenburg (LZ-129)

Henning Boetius: Phoenix aus Asche. Click title to order from Amazon.de
Gina De Angelis: The Hindenburg (Great Disasters and their Reforms). Click title to order from Amazon.com. Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk
Mireille Majoor, Ken Marschall(Illustrator): Inside the Hindenburg Click title to order from Amazon.com. Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk.
The Zeppelins, by Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann (a long excerpt)

History:

Althoff: Sky Ships: A History of the Airship in the United States Navy Click title to order from Pacifica Military History. Click here to order from Amazon.com. Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk.
Fortier: R100 in Canada Click title to read on-line at the Canada Aviation Museum Web site
George Whale: British Airships, Past, Present and Future (Gutenberg text-free download)
Charles E. Rosendahl: How Soon We Forget: US Navy Airship Operations in World War Two. Read on-line at the Navy Lakehurst HIstorical Society Web site
Fulgence Marion: Wonderful Balloon Ascents (Gutenberg text-free online viewing)
Zeppelin Transport Co.: Airship Travel Made Easy Click title to view on-line at Airships.net
Candice F. Ransom, Shelly O. Haas(Illustrator): Fire in the Sky Click title to order from Amazon.com. Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk
Jim Schock: American Airship Bases & Facilities Click title to order from Amazon.com
John McPhee: The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed The fascinating and bizarre story of Miller and the Aereon Corporation, including development and flight testing of the Aereon 26 lifting body. Click title to order from Amazon.com
Harold Dick: Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships. Click title to order from Amazon.com. Click here to order from Amazon.co.uk.
Rick Archbold: Dirigeables Click title to order from Amazon.fr [text is in French].
Facon & Debaeker:Ballons montgolfieres et dirigeables Click title to order from Amazon.fr [text is in French]
Becker & Hoefling: 100 Jahre Luftschiffe. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Waibel & Kissel: Zu Gast im Zeppelin. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Knaeusel: Die grosse Verheissung. LZ1 der erste Zeppelin. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Meyer: Luftschiffe. Die Geschichte der deutschen Zeppeline. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Eichler: Luftschiffe und Luftschifffahrt. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Rademacher: Das Luftschiff. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Knaeusel: Zeppelin. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Meighoerner: Zirkel, Zangen und Cellon. Arbeit am Luftschiff. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Hans von Schiller: Zeppelin, Aufbruch im 20. Jahrhundert. Click on title to order from Amazon.de [text is in German]
Guillaume de Syon: Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Click on title to order from publisher.

Novels

ZRS, by Rowan Partridge. This "alternate history" novel by an Australian LTA enthusiast explores what might have happened if the rigid airship had been available in the Pacific in WWII. Click title to order from Atlantis Productions' Web site, airshiphistory.com. Read Marc de Piolenc's review. (Cover painting is by Cortney Skinner)
LZ 99, by Chester Mohn. A mysterious cylinder with a WW1 connection surfaces during construction of an amusement park in England. Available from eNovel.com.

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