A 30 minute talk on the history of the UK and US airship programmes, first given at BarCamp London 5.

1. When Zeppelins
Ruled the Earth
Simon Willison
BarCamp London 5
September 28th 2008

15. R101

17. Arctic exploration

18. The Norge

19. Umberto Nobile Roald Amundsen

22. The Italia

24. The US Navy

25. USS Shenandoah

28. USS Akron

33. USS Macon

40. List of airships of the United States Navy
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(ZR-1) Shenandoah - 1923-25 (crashed)
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(ZR-2) R38 - 1921 (crashed)
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(ZR-3) Los Angeles - 1924-39
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ZMC-2, a metalclad-airship built by the
Aircraft Development Corp - 1929-41
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(ZRS-4) Akron - 1931-33 (crashed)
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(ZRS-5) Macon - 1933-35 (crashed)

42. The future

43. Aeroscraft

45. Zeppelin
One “l” - you could moor
a Zeppelin to it

46. http://airshipworld.blogspot.com/
http://airshipventures.blogspot.com/
http://aerocrat.livejournal.com/
http://www.luftschiff.de/
http://simonwillison.net/tags/airships/