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British
Naval Airships by Brian Turpin
The
defininitive history of all airships designed for the Royal
Naval Air Service between 1909 and 1921,
and their subsequent
development and operational use by that serivice during
the Great War and after.
Illustrated with over 1,200 photographs,
some 230 original line drawings and 19 colour plates set
in a 4 volumes hardback set.
Published
by the Airship Heritage Trust in cooperations with The Fleet
Air Arm Museum
Price
£135.00 plus postage and packing
Beginning
with the Admiralty's over ambitious attempt to introduce
a large rigid airship into service in 1911, the four
volumes tell in detail the story of the wartime rigid
airships and the less ambitious but more successful
non rigid airships, of which over 200 were eventually
built. Deployed against the German submarine fleet,
they formed part of what eventually became a massive
anti-submarine force of aircraft and warships which
eventually defeated the U-boat menace.
Despite their success, after the war airships were neglected
by both the Admiralty and the Royal Air Force, and the
magnificent achievement of the R 34 in crossing the
Atlantic to New York in July, 1919, was forgotten in
the aftermanth of the R38 disaster.
Each airship type is described in full techincal detail,
followed by their individual service histories, when
operating from the numerous naval airship stations established
around the British Isles and in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The rigid airship story is followed into the post war
period and ends with the attempt to establish a civil
airship programme using the R 33 and R 36, which eventually
led to the ill-fated Imperial Airship Scheme.
To
find out more, download the
contents
pages here
BRIAN
TURPIN began his long career in aviation as an engineer,
studying at the College of Aeronautical Engineering
in London before joining the Royal Air Force in 1955.
On leaving the RAF in 1960, he obtained his Commercial
Pilots Licence and after working as a flying instructor
for a few years joined his first airline operating
a car ferry service across the English Channel.
After forty years of airline and executive flying,
he retired from commercial aviaition in 2000. Still
keen to contiue flying, he then joined a local flying
club and worked as an instructor for the next sixteen
years, finally retiring with over 23,000 flying hours.
His interest in balloons and airships began when he
was a child, but it was not until 1972 that he was
able to make his first balloon flight when he joined
a local group of balloon enthusiasts in Essex. He
subsequently gain his balloon pilots licence and has
also flown in the Goodyear airship and later in the
new Zeppelin NT.
Research in to the history of British naval airships
began in the late 1960's and has continued ever since,
resulting in numerous articles in aviation magazines,
a previous book to the subject and the present four
volumes.
A member of Air-Britain for many years, he recived
the Air Writer of the Year Award in 1969 and again
2019, on both occassions for articles on British airship
history.
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Price
£135 plus Postage
Postage
Costs will be automatically added on checkout.
UK
fulfilment via Evril: £15.00
For
non UK delivery prices, please
contact us with regards to your country and we
will get postage quote from our printers.
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