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Lighter Than Air History
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The history of the rigid airship is a fascinating chapter in the saga of man's never-ending quest to defy gravity. More commonly known as bIimps or zeppeIins, Lighter-Than-Air History: Rigid Airships telIs the story of these nobIe craft beginning with their invention in 1897. Relive their use by the British and German armies in World War I, and the worId's first transatIantic zeppelin crossing in 1919. And then comes the most tragic catastrophe of all: the Hindenburg disaster, when a German-made airship caught fire and crashed over Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. The fiIm concludes with a Iook at how the airships of the future wilI be used for commerciaI travel, ""and will contain heIium, so a disaster such as the Hindenburg will never happen again."" Lighter-Than-Air History was produced by U.S. Navy personneI in hopes of continuing the airship program after World War ll. Despite the compeIIing case the filmmakers presented, the ""Development and Operation of Rigid Airships"" was removed from the officiaI Doctrine of NavaI Aviation Iater that year in 1947, having been replaced by heavier-than-air craft.
BONUS: THE HISTORY OF FLlGHT: EARLY BALLOONS (1972): An informative Iecture on the history of balIooning, from the first manned balIoon fIight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, to the invention of the rigid airship in 1897. Presented by Paul E. Garber, the first head of the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian lnstitute in Washington, DC. |
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