Add to ORKGThe U.S. Navy’s rigid airship program (1919–1939) represented an innovative attempt to meet the needs of the Fleet in an era of geopolitical uncertainty and rapid technological change. However, when it was over, 105 men of the Navy, including Admiral William A. Moffett, and four of the Navy’s five rigid airships, would be lost. Why did the Navy initiate, sustain, and ultimately terminate this controversial program? This thesis answers these questions by analyzing the Navy’s pursuit of rigid airships from 1900–1939 through the four paradigms of military innovation studies. In the end, this study reveals that no single paradigm (civil-military, inter-service, intra-service, or socio-cultural) fully explains why the Navy maintained a rigid air...
In the period following the First World War, air power theorists argued a future war would be decide...
Karl Arnstein\u27s life was defined by the world wars which shattered Europe. But for these cataclys...
While much is discussed about the naval and land fronts of the Union and Confederate armies during t...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996At the turn of the century, the United States Navy fo...
<p>The “release” of new technology to users often finds those users developing their own ways of usi...
The stressing of an airship depends on three nonuniformly distributed forces: air forces; the distri...
The article deals with the history of development of controlled aerostats (airships) in the XIX - ea...
On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg exploded. In the popular mind, this catastrophe ended the long reign...
Until the outbreak of the Second World War, uncertainty existed whether airships and airplanes would...
Metalclad airship development of the past history are considered along with the immediate prospects ...
This thesis examines how air power has affected navies using the case of the United Kingdom between ...
The advance of transportation technology depends on science and economics. During the 1930s, airship...
Airships run the first commercial but rudimentary air transportation services. The airplane conquere...
Until the outbreak of the Second World War, uncertainty existed whether airships and airplanes would...
The central figure in the modernization of the U.S. Navy. The career of Washington Irving Chambers s...
In the period following the First World War, air power theorists argued a future war would be decide...
Karl Arnstein\u27s life was defined by the world wars which shattered Europe. But for these cataclys...
While much is discussed about the naval and land fronts of the Union and Confederate armies during t...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996At the turn of the century, the United States Navy fo...
<p>The “release” of new technology to users often finds those users developing their own ways of usi...
The stressing of an airship depends on three nonuniformly distributed forces: air forces; the distri...
The article deals with the history of development of controlled aerostats (airships) in the XIX - ea...
On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg exploded. In the popular mind, this catastrophe ended the long reign...
Until the outbreak of the Second World War, uncertainty existed whether airships and airplanes would...
Metalclad airship development of the past history are considered along with the immediate prospects ...
This thesis examines how air power has affected navies using the case of the United Kingdom between ...
The advance of transportation technology depends on science and economics. During the 1930s, airship...
Airships run the first commercial but rudimentary air transportation services. The airplane conquere...
Until the outbreak of the Second World War, uncertainty existed whether airships and airplanes would...
The central figure in the modernization of the U.S. Navy. The career of Washington Irving Chambers s...
In the period following the First World War, air power theorists argued a future war would be decide...
Karl Arnstein\u27s life was defined by the world wars which shattered Europe. But for these cataclys...
While much is discussed about the naval and land fronts of the Union and Confederate armies during t...