U.S.S. "Los Angeles"

The Navy's Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology

by: William F. Althoff

Author: William F. Althoff

Publisher: Brassey's Inc

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 01 February 2002 (ILL)

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ISBN: 1574883763 ISBN 13: 9781574883763

U.S.S. "Los Angeles" by William F. Althoff

The story of the US Navy's airship, USS "Los Angeles", the most successful aircraft of its type ever flown. It reveals the US Army's furtive attempts to weaken the US Navy's control over developments in lighter-than-air technology. Top page

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Aviation historian William Althoff tells the story of the U.S. Navy's airship, U.S.S. 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 Germany Zeppelin Company to build the ship, thwarted schemes by the U.S. Army's Air Ser ice to take control of it, and helped plan its record-breaking historic four-day flight from Germany to the United Stattes. 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 achicvements and unceremonious demise of the Los Angeles after a long career symbolise the airship's unfulfilled promise. Nonetheless, the operational record of this one machine altered American naval aeronautics and influenced transoceanic commercial air transport. Top page