Zeppelins - Luchtschepen

Abbott, Patrick - Airships.

Dirigible balloons, usually known as airships, were first suggested in the late eighteenth century but not until the invention of the internal combustion engine a hundred years later were they able to achieve controlled and directed flight.

Shire Publications Ltd. 1991, 32 pages, ill., Language English, Softcover. New. € 13,95
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Althoff, William F. – Sky Ships.

A History of the Airship in the United States Navy.

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written.

The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication.

Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own lighter-than-air (LTA) program in 1915.

Naval Air Station Lakehurst (now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst) in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air: rigid airships.

An instrument of very-long-range (strategic) reconnaissance, the promise of the large airship was compelling; the Navy could hardly ignore it.

In the commercial realm, success peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin ending, however, with the infamous fire in May 1937.

That setback, the onset of war and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air (HTA) technology ended rigid airship development.

The Navy Department persisted, modernizing and deploying the non-rigid type or blimp as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) platform in the Second World War and, as well, for airborne early-warning (AEW) through the 1950s.

Unlike carrier aviation and the hardware of a new” nuclear Navy, the program had yet to integrate into fleet forces and the naval-aviation organization. Concluding progressive cutbacks, all fleet airship commands were disestablished in 1961--a last flight logged at NAS Lakehurst on 31 August 1962.

This edition features over two hundred new photographs. Sky Ships presents more than two decades of archival and oral-history research, and it remains the most comprehensive volume on the subject.

New York 1994. XIII, 304p., many ill., Naam in boek. Softcover. Mint condition. Signed by the author. € 32,50
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Althoff, William F. – USS Los Angeles: The Navy’s Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology.

Historian William Althoff tells the story of the U.S. Navy's airship, USS Los Angeles, the most successful aircraft of its type ever flown.

In dramatic detail, Althoff recounts how the U.S. Navy arranged for the famed German Zeppelin Company to build the ship, thwarted schemes by the U.S. Army's Air Service to take control of it, and helped plan its record-breaking historic four-day flight from Germany to the United States.

After years of experiments meant to determine its military and commercial application, the airship ultimately failed to command a consensus in the Navy.

"Relegated to a lower tier," Althoff writes, "the rigid type receded to marginal relevance until, on the eve of World War Two, it vanished altogether."

In this book, the early achievements and unceremonious demise of the Los Angeles after a long career symbolize the airship's unfulfilled promise.

Nonetheless, the operational record of this one machine altered American naval aeronautics and greatly influenced transoceanic commercial air transport during a critical period of its development.

Washington 2004. XXIII, 290p., many ill., naam in boek. Softcover. Mint condition. € 24,95
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Anoniem - Alberto Santos-Dumont vaart met een Zeppelin langs de Eiffeltoren te Parijs.

Artikel uit oud boek van ca. 1901.

394-408p., 9 foto's waarvan 8 met Zeppelin. € 7,50
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Bauer, Manfred – Airship Sheds in Frierichshafen.

This book tells the story of the airship sheds in Friedrichshafen.

Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen 2001. 94p. + 4 spreading pages. Many ill. Naam in boek. Softcover. Mint condition. € 24,95
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Botting, Douglas - Der große Zeppelin.

Hugo Eckener und die Geschichte des Luftschiffs.

Das von Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin entwickelte Luftschiff, dessen Jungfernfahrt im Jahre 1900 stattfand, gehört zu den wundersamsten Erfindungen in der Geschichte des menschlichen Traums vom Fliegen.

Bis heute löst der Zeppelin Faszination und Bewunderung aus.

Berlin 2001, 368 Seiten, Bilderteil, Hardcover + d.j. Neu. € 22,00
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Chamberlain, Geoffrey – Airships.

A History of Cardington Airship Station and its role in world airship development.

Lavenham 1991. XVI, 228p., many ill., Nam in boek. Hardcover + d.j. Mint condition. € 19,95
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Crough, Tom D. – Lighter than Air.

An illustrated History of Balloons and Airships.

This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships.

Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the people-flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels-who made history in the sky.

Here are the eighteenth-century pioneers who first took to the skies, the peripatetic aeronauts who criss-crossed two continents a century later, the airmen who manned the great rigid airships, and the intrepid balloonists who flew their craft across oceans and continents in the years following World War II.

The first half of the volume recounts the invention of the balloon, the golden age of the professional aerial showmen in Europe and America, the use of balloons for aerial reconnaissance, and the key role of balloons in scientific research.

The second half presents the rich tale of the airship from eighteenth-century dreams to twentieth-century reality.

These chapters describe the early development of the pressure airship, the emergence of the rigid airship and its golden age in the first half of the twentieth century, and the military and civil applications of these aerial behemoths.

The author concludes by discussing modern blimps, sport balloons, and dreams of a future for airships.

The highly accessible text is complemented with a wealth of prints and photos from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le Bourget, the Zepplin-Museum at Zepplinheim, and the Imperial War Museum in London.

Written by award-winning aeronautical historian Tom D. Crouch, Lighter Than Air brings to life the color and excitement of buoyant flight.

Baltimore 2009. 192p., many ill. Naam in boek. Hardcover + d.j. Mint condition. € 24,95
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Crough, Tom D. c.s. - The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age.

With the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers history-making flight at Kitty Hawk, world attention is once again turning to these intrepid American inventors.

Written by two of the worlds leading experts on the Wrights, The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age will provide a definitive, richly illustrated look at the lives of the brothers and their world-changing invention.

Wilbur and Orville were two eccentric owners of a bicycle shop in the heartland.

But it was invention, engineering, and the new possibilities of manned flight that obsessed them. In just three years, they went from designing and flying a glider and creating a test wind tunnel to Wilburs history-making moments in December 1903 above the dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

In moving prose, Crouch and Jakab explain the Wrights achievements and the moments of their great successes, and they paint a masterful personal portrait of the two sometimes erratic, genius personalities (never married, the brothers lived together all their lives), and, most important, the world of pioneering aviation in which they operated.

Poignant archival photographs throughout the book capture that world, where ox carts and airplanes co-existed and where two determined brothers from Dayton were celebrated by presidents and kings.

But the most poignant of all the images remains that of an airplane, almost kite-like in its simplicity, struggling skyward from the dunes at Kitty Hawk.

Washington 2003. 240p., many ill., Naam in boek. Hardcover + d.j. In bijna nieuwstaat. € 22,50
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Deckers, Daphne – Het Vliegende Schaap.
Het ware verhaal van de eerste bemande ballonvlucht.

Georgette ('Sjors') is een eigenwijs schaapje dat op tragische wijze haar moeder verliest.

Wanneer de kudde haar de rug toekeert, sluit ze vriendschap met Pulletje, een eend met veel praatjes, en Gallus, een haan met hoogtevrees.

Na veel spannende verwikkelingen worden zij de 'bemanning' van de allereerste ballonvaart.

Het verhaal speelt in het Frankrijk van Lodewijk XVI, en de levens van de dieren zijn verweven met die van Joseph en Étienne Montgolfier, de uitvinders van de luchtballon.

Een klassiek verhaal met grote thema's in een wervelende
maar vooral ook humorvolle verpakking.

Amsterdam 2014. 192p., ill. Annet Schaap. Hardcover. Nieuwstaat. € 9,00
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Engelsing, Tobias c.s. – Die Zeppelins.

Lebensgeschichten einer Adelsfamilie.

Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin war neben Kaiser Wilhelm II. der berühmteste Deutsche seiner Zeit: Man verehrte ihn als „Beherrscher der Lüfte", als nationales Symbol der Einheit und der Leistungskraft des Kaiserreichs.

Bis heute aber verschwinden hinter dem Mythos der Mensch Ferdinand von Zeppelin und seine Familie.

Die Ausstellung in seinem Geburtsort Konstanz lässt die erlebnisreichen Kinder- und Jugendjahre in einer geistig anregenden Atmosphäre sichtbar werden.

Sie erzählt vom Unternehmergeist der französisch-schweizerisch geprägten Großeltern und von dramatischen Ereignissen in einer europäisch vernetzten Adelsfamilie aus dem württembergischen Hofadel.

Die Zeppelins sind auch halbe Schweizer, unterhalten freundschaftliche Beziehungen zum Hof Napoleons III. und pflegen die Liebe zubaltischen Frauen.

Berührende Erinnerungsstücke aus den Schlössern der Familie sowie Kunstwerke und Kuriosa lassen die untergegangene Welt dieser bedeutenden Familie wieder lebendig werden.

Buch zur Ausstellung über die Zeppelins in Konstanz und Friedrichshafen 2013/2014.

Konstanz 2013 1. Auflage., 200 S., sehr viele Abb., Hardcover. Wie neu. € 12,00
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Faulkner, Dr. Neil c.s. – In search of te Zeppelin War.

This book comprises a full introduction to the history and archaeology of the first strategic bombing campaign in history - the Zeppelin raids over Britain in 1915-1918 - based on pioneering new excavations and archive research.

This is the story of the first Blitz and the first Battle of Britain, featuring a full account of the first Zeppelin crash site excavation and also covering airfields, gun sites, searchlights, and radio listening posts.

The book features contemporary accounts and archive photographs alongside the reports and photographs from the excavations, including Hunstanton, Monkhams, Chingford and North Weald Basset, the Lea Valley, Potters Bar and Theberton.

Written in collaboration between academic archaeologists and aviation enthusiasts/metal detectorists, this fascinating project is also the subject of a BBC2 Timewatch documentary.

Gloucestershire 2008 1st., 160p., many ill., Softcover. Mint condition. € 14,95
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Karl Grieder – Zeppeline.

Giganten der Lüfte.

Die grosse Zeit der Luftschiffe.

Ein wertvolles Nachschlagewerk üer die Entwicklung des Luftschiffes.

Die umfassenden Hinweise, zum Teil aus zeitgenössischen Quellen, ergeben ein faszinerendes Bild einer Epoche der Luftfahrt, deren Höhepunkt zugleich auch it ihrem Ende zusammenfällt: der Katastrophe von Lakehurst vom 6. Mai 1937, der das grösste Luftschiff, die 'Hindenburg', zum Opfer fiel.

Zürich 1971. 134 S., viele Abb., naam en stempeltje in boek. Hardcover. In goede staat. € 22,50
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Hallmann, Willi – Ballone und Luftschiffe im Wandel der Zeit.

Von der Montgolfiere zum Cargo Lifter.

Diese Buch schlägt eine Brücke von den Anfängen der Ballongechichte bis zur Jetztzeit.

Königswinter 2002. 192 S., viel Abb., Naam in boek. Hardcover + d.j. Fast wie neu. € 17,50
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Hoffman, Paul – Wings of Madness.

Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.

An intriguing study of the early days of aviation offers a close-up profile of Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont who entertained Europe with his airborne acrobatics and antics beginning in 1906 with a small dirigible, in a glimpse into the tormented mind of a talented man, set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Paris.

New York 2003. 369p. + 16p. with ill., Naam in boek. Hardcover + d.j. Mint condition. € 14,95
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Japin, Arthur – De gevleugelde.

Alberto Santos-Dumont groeit op in de afgelegen binnenlanden van Brazilië.

Hij droomt ervan te kunnen vliegen zoals de helden in de boeken van Jules Verne.

Wanneer hij ontdekt dat hun avonturen verzonnen zijn, legt hij zich daar niet bij neer.

Hij vertrekt naar Parijs, zet de werkelijkheid naar zijn hand, en wordt de eerste mens die door de wolken navigeert.

De ware geschiedenis van deze vergeten pionier en zijn gestolen hart voert van Zuid-Amerika naar de Parijse belle époque – een spectaculaire historische roman.

Hoe verbeeldingskracht en passie de wereld kunnen veranderen!

Amsterdam/Antwerpen 2015. 320p., naam in boek. Hardcover. Nieuwstaat. € 12,50
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Kleinheins, Peter – LZ 120 Bodensee und LZ 121 Nordstern.

Luftschiffe im Schatten des Versailler Vertrags.

Friedrichshafen 1994. 160 S., mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Naam in boek. Softcover. Wie neu. € 19,95
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Knausel, Hans G. – Mythos Zeppelin.

Historische Fahrten mit Luftschiffen 1908-1939.

Der Mythos Zeppelin lebt. Die verständliche Faszination, die von den ruhig schwebenden Riesenzigarren ausging, hat allerdings zu einer Legendenbildung geführt, die bei objektiver Auswertung der Quellen nicht gerechtfertigt erscheint.

Tatsache ist, dass Zeppeline bereits in den zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren Ozeane und ganze Kontinente überqueren konnten, als Flugzeuge dazu noch lange nicht in der Lage waren.

Aber ebenso richtig ist, dass das System „leichter als Luft“ auch gravierende Mängel hatte und hat.

Die Nutzlast war sehr begrenzt, auch die Einsatzbedingungen unterlagen sehr vielen Einschränkungen, und es mussten immer wieder hohe Risiken eingegangen werden.

Manche spektakulären Fahrten gelangen nur mit sehr viel Glück.

In diesem Buch werden alle Zeppelinfahrten, die militärischen Einsätze im Ersten Weltkrieg, die großen Expeditionen und die planmäßigen Passagierfahrten ohne falsches Pathos geschildert und kritisch untersucht.

Der Autor räumt mit der Legende auf, Luftschiffe könnten als Verkehrsmittel der Zukunft gelten.

Oberhaching, 2003. 160 S., mit zahlreichen Abb. im Text. Hardcover. Wie neu. € 14,95
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Lusnath, H. - Zeppelin-Weltfahrten.

Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin"

Friedrichshafen 1933 . 106 S., dargestellt in einer Sammlung von 265 echten Bromsilber-Bildern. Softcover. Gebruiks- en ouderdomsporen. € 39,95
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Meighörner-Schardt, Wolfgang – Wegbereiter des Weltluftsverkehr wider Willen.

Die Geschichte des Zeppelin-Luftschifftyps "w".

Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, 1992. 156 S. mit 45 Abbildungen. Naam in boek. Softcover. Fast wie neu. € 12,50
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Ochtendblad De Tijd - Vrijdag 7 juli 1939.

4p., O.a. bericht over: Groote Britsche manoeuvres - Colijn - Onderzeeboot de Thetis - De toestand in China - De Graf Zeppelin weer in de vaart - en allerlei klein en lokaal nieuws. € 7,50
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Pugh, Peter – Barnes Wallis Dambuster.

A brand new biography of the great British inventor immortalised in The Dambusters.

Barnes Wallis is best known for his invention of the Bouncing Bombs which destroyed the Möhne, Eder, Sorpe and Ennepe dams in the Ruhr in May 1943.

The mission, carried out by 617 Squadron led by Guy Gibson VC, was a complete success, even if some have argued since that the influence on the war was more psychological than physical.

It remains one of the most exciting events of the Second World War, with its bold vision, Wallis' persistence in pushing it through against considerable opposition, and its courageous and skilful execution.

The attack on the dams was not Barnes Wallis' only achievement in his long career as an engineer and scientist.

His first notable contribution was on the R80 airship during the First World War, followed by further work on the airships R100 and R101 during the 1920s.

He made valuable design contributions on the Wellesley and, more importantly, on the Wellington bomber which served the RAF throughout the Second World War.

More Wellingtons were produced than any other British bomber.

Following the success of the bouncing bomb and its naval equivalent, TALLBOY, Wallis then produced the big bomb known as Grand Slam.

Altogether few others made as big a contribution to winning the Second World War as Wallis.

As well as being a brilliant engineer and scientist, Wallis found time for an active private life, including a lively acquaintance with the formidable birth-control campaigner Marie Stopes.

Her son Harry married, against her wishes (her genes were not good enough) Wallis' daughter, Mary.

London 2005. XIV, 200., 36p. ill., Hardcover + d.j. Mint condition. € 14,95
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Schiller, Hans von - The Zeppelin Book.

Kapitän von Schiller was one of the longest serving German airship pilots.

His ‘Zeppelinbuch’ originally published in 1938, describes some of the practical issues involved in flying large rigid airships.

After a short account of the resurgence of the post-war Zeppelin concept as a commercial venture, he goes on to list every major flight completed by ‘his’ ship, the ‘Graf Zeppelin’.

He describes the introduction into service of the Hindenburg, and how its subsequent demise was handled and investigated.

He concludes with a brief chapter on the LZ 130, and his hopes for a swift return to commercial airship operations that never came.

Standard Copyright License 2017. 212p., Many ill., Naam in boek. Softcover. Nearly new. € 19,95
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Schmitt, Werner c.s. – 20 Kapitel frühe Luftfahrt.

Inhalt u.a. Wegbereiter der Luftfahrt. Bedeutende Luftschiffstandorte. Fahrten mit dem Freiballon. Wasserflugzeuge international. Rekordflug-Doppeldecker. Deutsche Eindecker.

Berlin 1990. 207 S., Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Naam in boek. Hardcover + licht besch. d.j. € 12,50
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Steen Hansen, Ole – 100 Jaar luchtvaart.

De pioniers.

Van de allereerste pogingen van de grond lost te komen tot de allermodernste passagiersvliegtuigen – 100 jaar luchtvaart in zes boeken vol levendige illustraties en foto’s, beroemde piloten, belangrijke gebeurtenissen en natuurlijk veel vliegtuigen.

Op 17 december 1903 vlogen de gebroeders Wright op Kill Devil Hills bij Kitty Hawk in North Carolina met het allereerste gemotoriseerde vliegtuig uit de geschiedenis.

Hun prestatie maakte mensen wild enthousiast.

Dit eerste deel beschrijft de eerste ingenieuze, moedige en soms roekeloze pogingen tot vliegen.

Leidschendam 2003. 32p., vele afb., Naam in boek. Hardcover. In mooie staat. € 7,50
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Syon, Guillaume de - Zeppelin!

Germany and the Airship, 1900–1939.

An absorbing chronicle of the elegant airborne leviathan that at the beginning of the 20th century promised to revolutionize luxury travel, scientific exploration, and warfare.

"Whenever the airship flew over a village, or whenever she flew over a lonely field on which some peasants were working, a tremendous shout of joy rose up in the air towards Count Zeppelin's miracle ship which, in the imagination of all who saw her, suggested some supernatural creature."

As this paean to the Zeppelin from an early-20th-century issue of the German newspaper Thüringer Zeitung makes clear, the airship inspired a unique sense of awe.

These phenomenal rigid, lighter-than-air craft―the invention of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838-1917)―approached the size of a small village.

Although they moved slowly, there was no mistaking their exciting―or ominous―potential. Friends of the machine believed that it would revolutionize commerce, carry scientists to otherwise inaccessible places, and deliver bombs with great accuracy.
Before the airplane proved its reliability and superior practicality―and before the fiery crash of the Hindenburg in 1937―Zeppelins made a deep impression on the minds of Europeans, especially in Germany.

In Zeppelin! Guillaume de Syon offers a captivating history of this technological wonder, from development and production to its impact on German culture and society.

De Syon chronicles the various ways in which the airships were used―transport, war, exploration, and propaganda―and details the attempts by successive German governments―autocratic, democratic, fascist― to co-opt Count Zeppelin's invention.

Between 1900 and 1939, Germans saw the Zeppelin as a symbol of national progress, and de Syon uses the airship to better understand the dynamics of German society and the place of technology within it.

Though few people actually flew in any of the 119 Zeppelins built, the rigid airship made one of the strongest impressions of any flying machine on Europe's collective memory.

Six decades later, there is still a mystique surrounding these technological leviathans, one that Zeppelin! addresses with insight and wit.

Baltimore 2002. 295p., ill., Naam in boek. Hardover + d.j. In mooie staat. € 17,50
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Toland, John – Die grosze Zeit der Luftschiffe.

Nach Augenzeugenberichten schildert Bestseller-Autor John Toland das glanzvollste Abenteur der Luffahrt.

Ein erregendes menschliches Drama.

Bergisch Gladbach 1978. 288 S., mit 79 Bilder. Hardcover + d.j. Fast wie neu. € 14,95
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Winters, Nancy – Man Flies

The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon, Conqueror of the Air.

"It was for Alberton Santos-Dumont, who could not check his pocket watch because he was using both hands to steer a balloon, that Louis Cartier, in 1901, created the first wristwatch.

The youngest son of a Brazilian millionaire, he grew up on an isolated coffee plantation devouring (and believing) the novels of Jules Verne.

By the age of eighteen he was living in Paris, at the height of the Belle Epoque, heir to a huge fortune and determined to make his dreams of flying come true.

A renowned playboy, dining at Maxim's nightly and setting new styles in fashion, he at first frequently crashed his yellow silk airships into the trees of wealthy friends, such as the Rothschilds - who would send up champagne lunches for him to enjoy during repairs.

But soon he was winning prestigious prizes and being hailed as "the conqueror of the air".

Internationally acclaimed as the first man to fly, he was feted for several years in Europe and America (where he was received at the White House by Teddy Roosevelt) before learning that the wright brothers, whose early efforts had been discounted, had actually preceded him.

Man Flies tells the tragic, glamorous story of his career, and later illness, and of how this brilliant, colourful and eccentric pioneer slipped through the cracks of aviation history while his inventions and imagination continue to inspire it.

London 1997. 160p. Many ill., Naam in boek. Hardcover + d.j. Mint condition. € 22,50
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Witteman, Anton – The ZR III and the flight to America.

Translated for the first time into English, this 1925 book provides a brief history of the pre-war commercial airship company DELAG, gives a detailed description of the LZ 126 / ZR III airship, relates the course of the five test flights in Germany and Switzerland, and ends with an account of the Atlantic crossing and delivery flight.

2017. 160p., many ill., Naam in boek. Softcover. Mint condition. € 22,50
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Zeppelin-Metallwerke – Zeppelin.

Ein bedeutendes Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Luftfahrt.

Zeppelin-Metallwerke GMBH 1968. 80 S., sehr viele Abb., Hardcover. Fast wie neu. € 14,95
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