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  • When Giants Ruled the Sky

  • The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
  • By: John J. Geoghegan
  • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
  • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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When Giants Ruled the Sky

By: John J. Geoghegan
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
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Nearly everything people know about airships is wrong. Few realize that prior to the Hindenburg disaster airships transported passengers without a single casualty for more than twenty years, a record unmatched by any other form of transportation. When Giants Ruled the Sky tells the true but little-known story of the USS Macon (ZRS-5), the world's largest, most expensive, and most technologically advanced airship of her day, and the four men responsible for conceiving, designing, building, and flying her. In doing so it reveals how the American airship came within a hair's breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as the dominant form of long-distance transportation, and exactly what went wrong, a tale of physical courage, engineering acumen, ugly politicking and two egregious disasters.

©2021 John J. Geoghegan (P)2023 Tantor
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Airships rule

Very informative read for the airship neophyte and expert alike. My only gripe - the narrator really should’ve known how to pronounce “Akron”

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About time

Great book in a great subject. Lots of facts but not a total text book read.

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