My Five Years With Soviet Airships
Nobile, Umberto
First Edition
Very rare book.
This is Number 84 of only 500 numbered copies.
Umberto Nobile (1885-1978), the famous Italian airship pioneer was invited to the Soviet Union in 1929 after airship constrution in Italy were stopped following the crash of Nobile's airship "Italia" in the Arctic.
Nobile worked in the USSR from 1931 to 1936 on several airship projects. His personal manuscript written in English about this time did not find a publisher. It was only after Nobile's death that his widow Dr. Gertrude Nobile agreed the publication of Nobile's manuscript through the Lighter-Than-Air-Society…
CONTENTS
Foreword
An Invitation from Moscow
Arrival in the Soviet Union
At Archangel
Towards Franz Josef Land
A Meeting with the "Graf Zeppelin"
At Cape Flora
On Prince Rudolph Island
Disappointment
In Novaya Zemlya
In Moscow
A Good Bargain for the Dirigiablestroi
At Work in the "Constructor Bureau"
Secretaries and Interpreters
"Samocritica"
The "Homeless Ones"
Chess in Russia
The Fate of a Meteorologist
Our first Airships
Before the Courts in Moscow
The Eventful Flight of V-3
Continual Changes at the Top
Airships designed by our Planning Office
In the Kremlin Hospital
Back at Work
High Days and Holidays
The "Chistka"
Airships and the "Chelushkin" Shipwreck
The Destruction of V-7
V-6 in Flight
The Disaster to V-7 (II)
The Problem of Large Airships
The Moscow - Sverdlovsk Air Line
V-6 wins the World's Duration Record
The Tragic End of V-6
Conclusions drawn from an Experience
Photographs
Table - Airships Constructed in Russia
Footnotes
Hardcover
153 Seiten / pages
photos
very good condition
Akron, Ohio - 1987 - The Lighter-Than-Air-Society
Art.Nr. 24947
