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1) My Air-Ships
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This early work on Alberto Santos-Dumont is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the journeys of an air-ship traveler and his experiences. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone interested in air-ship history.
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Airships are self-propelled aircrafts that are lighter than the air itself. Readers of this captivating volume will learn all about how these amazing flying machines work. Handy diagrams and illustrations accompany accessible text, making for an insightful book that readers of many ages and levels can benefit from. Young aircraft enthusiasts, as well as those who are new to the subject, are sure to gain valuable insight from this engaging, high-interest...
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The Airship of Winters
Captain Wren Erin Winters has always had a passion for airships. At age ten, he begins to work on one, and by age eighteen he is captaining his own ship. After a quiet two years on his own ship, he is attacked by pirated and abducted by the cruel pirate captain, Scotch Riddler.
After months of fighting and torturing, Captain Riddler and Wren begin to form a romance. It started as nothing but sex and teasing but soon...
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In the 21st century - the age of the budget airline - where quick and reliable air travel is available to a large segment of society, it seems hard to comprehend that it is less than 250 years since the first human took to the skies.
Although the wing of the bird seemed like the most obvious natural mechanism to attempt replicate, it was actually contained hot air, as demonstrated by the Montgolfiers and their balloon, that gave birth to the era...
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Adventures, Victorian gentlemen and airships! Mary Clipwood is a young and inexperienced inventor wishing for a life full of adventures. When her father's friend, Edward Harrington, builds a prototype airship and organizes an expedition following the tea route from China to London, she can't resist but to join.There are, however, forces that do not wish the expedition to reach its destination. When political enemies clash and old grudges come back...
6) Blimps
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Discusses the construction, design, operation, and uses of blimps and how it feels to ride in one.
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Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation tells the dramatic story of a world leading aviation industry, from the sweat and grease of the workshop, to the board rooms and government nationalisations that ultimately fashioned its destiny.
The heroes are Britain’s most innovative aviation pioneers and their aircraft, the men and women who persevered to be the first into the air, to fly the fastest, the highest and the furthest. This broad and highly...
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viii, 342 pages ; 18 cm.
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"Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. But when her father, an eccentric inventor, dies, the Darcy siblings are left with scrap metal; and not a penny to their names. Their only hope to save the family reputation and fortune is to embark on a quest to discover an invention of historical importance in honor of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee....
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Computer technician Jack Fletcher is no hero, despite his unwelcome reputation as one. In fact, he's just been the victim of bizarre circumstances. Like now. His sister happens to disturb one of his nanoelectromechanical system experiments, and now they aren't where they're supposed to be. In fact, they're not sure where they are when they wake up to see a woman with the reddest hair Jack has ever seen -- and a gun. Octavia Pye is an Aerocorps captain...
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The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the "problem of human flight" already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air & Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci....
11) Early Balloons and Airships: The History and Legacy of Dirigibles Before the Invention of Airplanes
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The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the "problem of human flight" already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air & Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci....
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Exploring the history and development of the dirigible airship from its humble beginnings in the late eighteenth century, through to its current role as military command posts among other uses, this book is a comprehensive account of the dirigible airship. Starting out as an unreliable experimental aircraft as aeronauts first began to learn the secrets of aerial navigation, the airship was then remodelled in 1900 by Count Zeppelin to become a potent...
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446 pages ; 21 cm
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In a post-apocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City of the Founders. Steaming over a territory once known as Southern California -- before it was devastated in the alien war--Buckle navigates his massive airship through skies infested with enemy war zeppelins and ravenous...
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Cinder spires volume 1
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630 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting...
16) Skybreaker
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Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
17) Prudence
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Custard protocol volume 1
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357 pages ; 22 cm.
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Twenty-year-old Prudence "Rue" Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics.
18) Jack Cloudie
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After narrowly escaping the gallows for a bank robbery gone wrong, Jack Keats is pressed into service in the Royal Aerostatical Navy aboard a run-down airship, with a seemingly mad captain, on its way to the deserts of Cassarabia.
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With everyone onboard harboring dark secrets and at least one person determined to make sure the airship doesn't make the return trip, Flight of Dreams gives an utterly suspenseful, heart-wrenching explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of the twentieth century. On the evening of May 3, 1937, Emilie Imhof boards the Hindenburg. As the only female crewmember, Emilie has access to the entire airship, from the lavish dining rooms and passenger...
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39 clues. Doublecross volume 2
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190 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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The Cahills are the world's most powerful family, but their strength is being tested. A sinister man calling himself The Outcast has targeted the family and set them an impossible test. He's recreating four of history's worst disasters and challenging the young Cahills to find and stop the tragedies before it's too late. Now, with one disaster behind them, siblings Dan and Amy Cahill and their friends have just days to discover what the Outcast's...
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