Airship the life and tragic death of the Worlds Largest flying machine. You open your book in 1930, what was happening that day . On october the fourth, 1930, a 777 foot long airship, the largest thing that had ever flown, larger than the titanic by volume was about to take off on a trip from london to india. As part of a scheme hatched by the British Empire to connect the farflung pieces of the empire, it was a moonshot. A scheme you call it, one of your chapters is titled is dreams and imperial vision . S. C. Gwynne a nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they wer
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