Putnam Aeronautical 1992 Printers: designed by Tony Garrett; typeset by Inforum Typesetting, Portsmouth; printed and 1992 bound by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome Price: £35 92/1 Bell aircraft since 1935. Alain J. ISBN: 0 85177 845 3 Pelletier Dedication: In memory of Patricia Stroud, who, An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 4to. pp. with her husband John, contributed so much to [viii] [9] 10-255. 414 photos, 47 g.a. drawings. the Putnam series of aviation books over the past Index. Col. wrap-round painting on d.j. by thirty years Wilfred Hardy [Bell XS.1 and Lockheed F.80 Contents: Origins of buoyant flight. First chase plane] balloons. Dirigible balloons. Pressure-airships. Printers: typesetting and page make-up by The Rigid airship concept. Schwarz and Zeppelin. Word Shop, Bury; printed and bound by Butler Zeppelins LZ1 and LZ2. Zeppelin over the Alps & Tanner Ltd, Frome - LZ3 and LZ4/5. Echterdingen - LZ3A and LZ5. Price: £35 Zeppelins for the Army - LZ6 (‘ZIII’). DELAG - ISBN: 0 85177 851 8 LZ7 Deutschland and LZ8 Ersatz Deutschland. Contents: Origin and corporate history. [Aircraft HM Airship No.1 Mayfly. French rigid - Zodiac types] Spiess. Britain tries again - Vickers No.9. The Appendices: I: Selected Bell projects. II: Schwaben class - LZ9, 10 and 12. Civil Miscellaneous types. III: Milestones in Bell Zeppelins - LZ11 Viktoria Luise and LZ13 history. IV: Bell model designations. V: Hansa. Military and naval Zeppelins. Zeppelins Production details. VI: Bell aircraft used by go to war - Types h. i, k, l and m. Zeppelin NASA. VII: French Airacobras and Kingcobras. Types n and o. Wooden-rigids - Schütte-Lanz VIII: Serial numbers of foreign military and civil S.L.1-20. Million cubic feet Zeppelins - L10 and UH-1s. IX: Bell helicopters combat losses - L20 classes. Super Zeppelins - L30 class. Height Vietnam War. X: Westland Sioux production climbers - L48 and L53 classes and the Afrika- list. Abbreviations and acronyms Zeppelins. Last military Zeppelins - L70 class. Frontis.: Bell Model 212 C-FNSA (c/n 30524) British rigids during and after the war - 23, 23X of Frontier Helicopters dropping water during a and 31 classes. Across the Atlantic - R33 and demonstration (Conair photo) R34. R38 and R80. R36 and ZR-1 Shenandoah. Notes: p.[vii-viii] This account will give the Bodensee, Nordstern and Los Angeles. Sheds and reader a complete panorama of Bell activities mooring masts for rigid airships. British 1924 since 1935 up to the present, through its airship programme - R100 and R101. Most aeroplanes and helicopters as well as some of its famous airship - LZ127 Graf Zeppelin. Last projects and other flying machines. ... This book American rigids - Akron and Macon. The last conforms with most other Putnam titles. Only the Zeppelins - LZ129 Hindenburg and LZ130 Graf histories of aircraft have been covered and these Zeppelin II are presented in chronological order. Appendices: 1: Fixed and movable control [cat. 1998] The Bell company has achieved surfaces of early Zeppelins. 2: Commercial outstanding success with its large family of operations with rigid airships. 3: Operating superb helicopters which have been produced in statistics of rigid airships. 4: Manufacture of their thousands for military and civil operators rigid airships. 5: Characteristics of rigid airships. throughout the world. The author looks in equal 6: Key to rigid airship designations. 7: Rigid detail at these and the more unorthodox aircraft airship projects. 8: Atlantic Zeppelin service built before and during the Second World War. schedules Frontis.: LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II ... was the last 92/2 Zeppelin: rigid airships 1893-1940. of the line ... (Lufthansa photo) Peter W. Brooks Notes: cf. items 28/4 and 58/5 An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 4to. pp. [p.7] ... sets out to cover as concisely as possible [vi] 7-221. 253 photos, 47 g.a. drawings, 24 the entire story of those mammoth aircraft which diags. and maps. Bibliog., index. Col. wrap- had such an irresistible appeal to both the general round painting on d.j. by Keith Woodcock public and the technically-informed. ... Every [LZ129 Hindenburg] one of the 163 rigid airships, of about fifty different types built, is described in detail. ... A compact and self-contained episode in the history of human transport, this is a story that spans almost exactly forty years, providing an acknowledge that his work represented the unusual ‘case history’ in the evolution of inspiration for this book, although my approach technology. ... Those interested in the operational to and treatment of the subject is rather closer to history of the airship ... are referred to the the established ‘Putnam formula’ ... the use of bibliography. Particularly recommended are Dr. many of the general arrangement drawings Douglas H. Robinson’s The Zeppelin in Combat, originally executed (often by meticulous 1912-18 and Giants in the Sky, Capt. J.A. reference to the manufacturers’ originals, now Sinclair’s Airships in Peace and War, Capt. alas, dispersed to the four winds) by the late L.E. Ernst Lehmann’s Zeppelin and Sir Peter Bradford for the Putnam books; these drawings Masefield’s To Ride the Storm. ... The line contributed to the reputation, authority and drawings are the work of Carl G. Ahremark. welcome uniformity of the series in its early days [cat. 1998] listed as forthcoming reprint, same ... Having done my best to execute drawings of ISBN, £35. ‘post-Bradford’ aircraft, I have come to realise the magnitude of his achievement and the 92/3 The British fighter since 1912. Francis accuracy of his work. K. Mason [verso t.p.] lists references to related Putnam An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 4to. pp. titles: [vii] [8] 9-448. 600 photos, 220 g.a. drawings. Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918 Glossary, index. Col. wrap-round painting on d.j. Armstrong Whitworth aircraft since 1913 by Wilfred Hardy [Tornado F.3s] Avro aircraft since 1908 Printers: Designed and typeset by the Author Blackburn aircraft since 1909 with Apple Macintosh SE, using MicrosoftWord, Bristol aircraft since 1910 Aldus PageMaker and MacDraft; printed by British aeroplanes 1914-1918 Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome British aircraft 1809-1914 Price: £30 British aviation: the pioneer years ISBN: 0 85177 852 6 British aviation: the Great War and armistice Contents: 1: The First World War and the origins British flying boats and amphibians of air combat. 2: After the Somme. 3: Post-war British naval aircraft since 1912 austerity. 4: Biplanes at their zenith. 5: The first DeHavilland aircraft since 1915 generation of monoplanes. 6: The monoplane English Electric aircraft and their predecessors supreme. 7: The dawn of the jet age. 8: Fairey aircraft since 1915 Technology for the Cold War Gloster aircraft since 1917 Appendix: Air Ministry specifications Handley Page aircraft since 1907 Frontis.: The Royal Air Force’s solo aerobatic Hawker aircraft since 1920 Tornado F.3 demonstrator for 1991, being flown Parnall aircraft by Flight Lieutenant Archie Neill and Flight Saunders Roe and Saro aircraft since 1917 Lieutenant Jim Brown of No. 25 (Fighter) Shorts aircraft since 1900 Squadron ... (photo, Geoff Lee) Sopwith aircraft 1912-1920 Notes: for companion vol. cf. item 94/1. Supermarine aircraft since 1914 Supersedes item 65/2 Vickers aircraft since 1908 [p.9] Many years ago Putnam embarked on a Westland aircraft since 1915 series of books, each devoted to an aspect of [cat. 1998] Almost certainly the most detailed aviation history compiled by specialists in their study of the entire development of the British field, and together this series has come to fighting aeroplane, this book describes nearly represent a unique reference source for students 400 types of aeroplane with their development of aviation history. It has to be said, however, and operational histories. The types range from that some of these works were completed at a the Royal Aircraft Factory FE2 of 1912, through time when the subject aircraft companies were the fighter aircraft of the two world wars, to the still active as independent manufacturers within present-day Harrier, Jaguar and Tornado. the industry. Since their publication the nature of this industry has undergone fundamental change; 92/4 The aeroplanes of the Royal Flying and old allegiances have become blurred by the Corps Military Wing. J.M. Bruce worship of a corporate image. ... Among the 2nd revised ed. former Putnam titles was a book similarly titled See: 82/1[2] to the present work, written by the late Peter Lewis over twenty years ago, and I must SJ. 28.8.04, edited 15.3.05