What was the Hindenburg?

Título
What was the Hindenburg?

Janet B. Pascal

Resumen
Describes the history of the Hindenburg airship and its fateful flight from Germany to the United States in 1937, when it burst into flames upon arrival, and details the decline of the use of airships for commercial transportation.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2014

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Descripción física
1 v., 108 p. : b&w ill. ; 19 cm.

Contenido
What was the Hindenburg? -- Dreaming of flight -- Lighter than air -- The earliest zeppelins -- The world's first airline -- Zeppelins in the war -- No more zeppelins for Germany -- The golden age -- The Hindenburg -- A magical flight -- The final voyage -- A torch in midair -- What went wrong? -- The death of the zeppelin.

Materia corporativa
Hindenburg (Airship) -- Juvenile literature.

Término de la materia
Aircraft accidents -- New Jersey -- Literature.
 
Airships -- Germany -- Literature.

Síntesis
Describes the history of the Hindenburg airship and its fateful flight from Germany to the United States in 1937, when it burst into flames upon arrival, and details the decline of the use of airships for commercial transportation.

ISBN
9780448481197

Información de publicación
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]


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