America's Forgotten Airship Disaster: The Crash of the USS Shenandoah CKB101000 ISBN13: 9780578679372

ISBN13: 9780578679372

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America's Forgotten Airship Disaster: The Crash of the USS Shenandoah CKB101000 ISBN13: 9780578679372On a stormy September morning in 1925, the giant Navy airship Shenandoah tumbled out of a turbulent sky and crashed into aviation history. Fourteen of the ship's 43 crewmen died in the crash. The Shenandoah was America's first rigid dirigible. It was longer than two football fields and powered by five 300 horsepower Packard engines. Ripped apart by strong winds over rural Ohio, the buoyant nose of the ship circled helplessly in the storm for nearly an