Book recommendation was Re: Battle blimps

For anyone who likes Airship, I'd recomend:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565041941/qid=1018996597/sr=8-7/
ref=
sr_8_7_7/002-0314784-1498433

Great stories of alternate times where the airship flourished and
fixed-wing
aircraft didn't.

Chan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Battle blimps

> At 12:54 PM -0700 4/16/02, Brian Burger wrote:
> >On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Michael Llaneza wrote:
> >
> >>  I smell a Harpoon scenario there.
> >
> >No, you just caught a whiff of whatever the PopMech editors smoke
when
> >they write these articles! :>
> >
> >I think they used the phrase 'laser cannons' at least five times... I
know
> >there are serious proposals for bringing back the rigid airship in
various
> >forms, including military, but PM is getting pretty goofy.
>
> Considering the Laser that is on the ABL takes up the better part of
> a 747, I don't see this stuff being fitted to a blimp or semi-rigid
> any time soon.
>
>
> >
> >That said, I like rigid airships, they're cool, and more power to the
> >ideas of bringing them back! Zepplin AGM in Germany is also back in
the
> >zepplin business; I think they've got their 2nd zep flying now
>
> Is this the Zepplin NT that was bandied about a few years back?
>
> I personally think Admiral Moffet had some good ideas as far as
> Airships and Fleet operations went. Things just didn't pan out very
> well for them operationally.
>
>
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