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Other Blimp Resources, Links, and Information
The Society's mission is to preserve the distinguished history of Navy Lakehurst, the Lighter Than Air [LTA] Program and the worlds first international airport. Museum, tours, slide presentations, lectures and LTA memorabilia are available through the Society. This site has the best overall history details I have found on LTA and Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
"Naval Airship
Association"
A dynamic site with everything you need
concerning past and on-going navy airship operations, reunions, and etc.
"Weeksville U.S.
Naval Air Station"
History and great photos of another
important blimp base in North Carolina.
"Airship Association"
Very significant British-based organization.
ZEPPELIN RING
A collection of Zeppelin sites grouped conveniently. Many of the same sites as in my list here.
ZEPPELIN Site
Zeppelin history and photos as well as present
happenings in lighter-than-air industry. An excellent resource for LTA subjects.
The Zeppelin Library
Archive
One of the best sites on the Net for
information on the early lighter-than-airships in the 20's and 30's.
The personal account of a flight from Rio to Akron aboard the Graf Zeppelin in 1933
A flight aboard a dirigible, as seen through the eyes of an eight year old girl.
American
Blimp Corporation
A dynamic site with good information, history, and pictures of modern blimps.
Lightship Group
Great pictures of those brightly painted and
glowing lightships.
"Hindenburg Crash Site Memorial"
Visit the Hindenburg crash site at Lakehurst.
THE ZEPPELIN MAST
Great zepp pictures and memorabilia. Get a copy of the original Hindenburg baggage label
National
Air and Space Museum
A great place to spend a rainy
day.
Ride the Goodyear blimp
Take a virtual ride (even with sounds) on the
Akron with Eric Nuzum
Blimps Make People Happy!
Checkout this site and see if these model radio
controlled blimps make the "big kid" in you smile and want to fly one, too.
Welcome to NavyOnLine.
A gateway to United States Department of the Navy
online resources.
Naval Historical
Center
A great site where Navy buffs can reminisce.
Marks Airship Postcard
collection!
This web site possibly has the largest single
online collection of airship images and postcards on the net and it's still growing!.
A ceramic airship teapot!
This web site has the perfect gift for your tea drinking friends.
Virtual Helium Web Site
Learn the fascinating story about
the lifting gas used in airships.
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-- Airships: A Popular History of Dirigibles, Zeppelins, Blimps, and Other Lighter-Than-Air Craft
-- Adventures of Buddy The Blimp.
-- The complete book of airships: Dirigibles, blimps & hot air balloons.
-- The Blimp Book.
-- Roo Kickkick and the Big Bad Blimp.
-- The Blimp Boys Go to War:
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-- Blimps & U-Boats: U.S. Navy Airships in the Battle of the Atlantic.
-- Navy Boats and Blimps:
-- Buy me a Blimp!
-- The Story of Flight: Early Flying Machines, Balloons, Blimps, Gliders, Warplanes, and Jets.
-- Blimps Balloons and Bombs.
-- Blimp RAID: Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment system.
-- The Blimp Crew.
-- Manufacturer finds variety of uses for modern blimps.
-- Navy Airships at War.
-- Famous Blimps.
-- Blimp!
-- Blimps in space.
-- Blimps: Flying Machines.
-- On the Move... Blimps
-- Up, Up, and Away!: All About Balloons, Blimps and Dirigibles.
-- Airships in World War I & II:
-- A practical guide to building small gas blimps.
-- AIRSHIPS, A POPULAR HISTORY OF DIRIGIBLES, ZEPPELINS, BLIMPS AND OTHER LIGHTER THAN AIR CRAFT.
-- Battle Blimps at War.
-- Some technical notes on thermal blimps.
-- Navy Airships and Blimps:
-- Footnote to history: Salvage of the USN Blimp K-14
-- Blimps: Big & Beautiful.
-- Mysteries of the Blimp.
-- Blimps & Such.
-- Airships
-- Airship Technology.
-- Airship Aerodynamics:
-- Zeppelins: German Airships 1900-40
-- Warriors Airships and Blimps:
-- The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918.
-- From Airships to Airbus:
-- Giants in the sky: A history of the rigid airship.
-- Up Ship!: A History of the U.S. Navy's Rigid Airships 1919-1935.
-- Birth of the Blimp:
-- Lighter Than Air: History of Hot-Air Balloons and Airships.
-- Airship Patents:
-- Golden Age of the Great Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg.
-- When monsters roamed the skies;: The saga of the dirigible airship.
-- Kite Balloons To Airships: The Navy's Lighter-than-air Experience.
-- The Disaster of the Hindenburg: The Last Flight of the Greatest Airship Ever Built.
-- Balloons, Blimps, and Ballast:
-- The Goodyear Blimp Story.
-- Bring On the Blimps!
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