ROSENDAHL, Commander C.E.
What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States.
First Edition of What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States; Inscribed by Commander C.E. Rosendahl
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1938.
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First edition of this spirited defence of the airship that calls for America to secure and maintain airship superiority. Octavo, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top stain red, illustrated with 16 black and white photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "With best wishes to Carl Hennicke, C. E. Rosendahl, Vice Admiral USN Retired." The recipient, Carl Hennicke (1902-1991), "was a mechanic for some of the best-known fliers of the 1920s" (Newsday, 22 August 1968), as well as being a wing-walker and parachutist. He spent the final three decades of his life seeking to establish an aviation museum in Long Island. Very good in a good unclipped dust jacket with damp staining, a few small closed tears with tape repairs, and toning.
Commander C. E. Rosendahl’s 'What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States' is a forceful intervention in early twentieth-century debates about American air power, arguing that rigid airships represented a strategically significant technology the United States could not afford to ignore. Writing from the perspective of a naval officer closely associated with lighter-than-air aviation, Rosendahl frames the airship as a long-range platform with distinct advantages for reconnaissance, patrol, and maritime defense, especially across the vast distances of the Atlantic and Pacific.
What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States.
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