Lanterna Rally

Author: Edwin Campbell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781331396666

Excerpt from Zeppelins: Past and Future When, however, early in 1909, Count Zeppelin handed over his first military airship to the German Government and it was found successful to a degree, a considerable section of expert Opinion in Germany decided that the superior of the aeroplane for military purposes had been discovered; and despite, or rather because of, a series of failures and catastrophes, she secured just such a lead in rigid-airship construction as France had Obtained in aeroplanes, with the added advantage that it was much more difficult to overcome or equal. Those catastrophes, coupled with a tremendous advance in aeroplane design and performance, had induced other nations to believe that the aeroplane was the better, as it was the more attractive machine, and while France, Italy, and Great Britain devoted some attention to non-rigid types of airship, the rigid was, broadly, regarded as Germany's preoccupation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.