My Zeppelins (Flight, its first seventy-five years) Review

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(More customer reviews)While travelling by air is generally taken for granted today, in the 1930's the fuure of air travel and the shape that it would take was far cloudier. At that time, the technically immature airplane was poised against the giant airships of the German Zeppelin company. 'My Zeppelins' is the story of the attempt to make the Airship a commercially viable vehicle that ended in the Hindenburg disaster of 1937.The author, Dr. Hugo Eckner, was the driving force behind the Luftshiffbau Zeppelin, the company that produced the huge airships. While he is only known today among a relatively small number of aviation historians, at the time he was a celebrity of worldwide porportions. A vocal critic of the Nazi party, only his enormous fame kept him from being liquidated along with Hitler's lessor opponents. The book deals mostly with the spectacular success of the Hindenburg's predecessor, the Graf Zeppelin, from financing the craft to the initial ocean-crossing operations. This is most certainly a niche book, of interest to the serious airship enthusiast.

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