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THE airship in aeronautical text-book literature has received but scant attention in the past. Aeroplane and seaplane design and the theoretical problems associated with them compose the subject matter of such works, while airships are dismissed in a few meagre paragraphs under the general heading of “lighter-than-air craft.” There is no special reason for this other than that the airship has almost consistently been regarded as the step-child of officialdom and certainly not to be encouraged by any consistent policy of construction and development. Yet, regarded as a scientific problem, the design of the rigid airship, as the present work proves, presents a problem in a type of structure which has not previously occurred in engineering and consequently gives rise to a crop of fresh problems both on the aerodynamic and the structural sides.
The Rigid Airship: a Treatise on the Design and Performance.
(The Specialists' Series.) By E. H. Lewitt. Pp. x + 283. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1925.) 30s. net.
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The Rigid Airship: a Treatise on the Design and Performance . Nature 117, 299 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117299a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117299a0