Las Animas - Bent County Library District

On May 6th, 1937, the world's largest passenger airship was attempting to dock near Lakehurst, New Jersey when it suddenly erupted in flames and crashed to the ground. But what really caused the Hindenburg tragedy? in the two-part miniseries that reveals what may have been a deadly conspiracy: When a corrupt American oil tycoon plots to sabotage the floating German leviathan, the ship's young designer and the mogul's daughter find themselves in a...

"Computer technician Jack Fletcher is no hero, despite his unwelcome reputation as one. he's just been the victim of bizarre circumstances. His sister happens to disturb one of his nanoelectrical system experiments and suddenly they aren't where they're supposed to be, and don't know where they are...."--P. 4 of cover.

A top secret drone crashes in the lawless horn of Africa. The CIA is prepared to write off the loss until evidence surfaces that the wreckage of their aircraft may be hidden in a hanger outside of the airport.

Provides information about the history of blimps, and tells how they are operated and used.

Describes the building, launching, missions, and final dismantling of a hypothetical rigid airship, based on the careers of three Navy dirigibles.

"The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--

"The tragic story of the British airship R101-which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later-has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty's Airship, historian S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong. Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half...

Describes the development and early flights of airships and the disastrous crash of the Hindenburg at an airfield in New Jersey in 1937.

A skilled mechanic in 1930s Germany is offered a job on the most magnificent airship ever built, the Hindenberg. But dangers from flammable gas, storms and lightning are there. Follows the airship as it bursts into flame and investigates the cause of the disaster.