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Aviation historian William Althoff tells
the story of the U.S. Navy’s airship, USS LOS ANGELES, the most
successful aircraft of its type ever flown. In dramatic detail,
Althoff recounts how the U.S. Navy arranged for the famed German
Zeppelin Company to build the ship, thwarted schemes by the U.S.
Army’s Air Service to take control of it, and helped plan its
record-breaking, historic four-day flight from Germany to the
United States. After years of experiments meant to determine its
military and commercial application, the airship ultimately failed
to command a consensus in the Navy. “Relegated to a lower tier,”
Althoff writes, “the rigid type receded to marginal relevance
until, on the eve of World War Two, it vanished altogether.” In
this book, the early achievements and unceremonious demise of the
LOS ANGELES after a long career symbolize the airship’s unfulfilled
promise. Nonetheless, the operational record of this one machine
altered American naval aeronautics and greatly influenced
transoceanic commercial air transport during a critical period of
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