British Airships 1905-30 by Ian Castle, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, England, 2009, $17.95. By 1914 British airship technology was lagging far behind Germany’s, with no rigid airship program and few airships of any other description. But the British began producing a large number of smaller, less expensive nonrigid airships, soon to become known as “blimps.” The …
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