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169. Flight Magazine, 27 April 1912.
170. From Many Angles, p 95.
171. From Balloon to Boxkite, p 225–26.
172. Flight Magazine, 8 June 1912.
173. AIR 1/796/204/4/924.
174. The Father of British Airships, p 85 and Battlebags, p 5.
175. The Airship No 3, p 48.
176. Airmen or Noahs, p 133.
177. The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government 1909–14, p 217–18.
178. The Air Weapon, p 182.
179. The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government 1909–14, p 218.
180. The Good Soldier, p 166.
181. From Many Angles, p 103–104.
182. From Many Angles, p 105.
183. The Good Soldier, p 144.
184. Expectation and Reality: the Great War in the Air, p 1.
185. Airmen or Noahs, p 23.
186. The War in the Air Volume I, p 226–27.
187. Flight Magazine, 28 August 1913.
188. From Many Angles, p 105.
189. Flight Magazine, 12 October 1912.
190. Ibid, 19 October 1912.
191. The Father of British Airships, p 88.
192. Flight Magazine, 23 November 1912.
193. Ibid, 14 December 1912.
194. History of British Aviation 1908–14, p 149–50.
195. The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government 1909–14, p 222.
196. Ibid, p 233.
197. Flight Magazine, 7 December 1912.
198. Flight Magazine, 25 January 1913.
199. Ibid, 1 February 1913.
200. Ibid, 8 February 1913.
201. The Air Weapon, p 205.
202. The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government 1909–14, p 236.
203. The Achievement of the Airship, p 88.
204. British Aviation the Pioneer Years, p 230.
205. Ibid, p 238.
206. Cab 38/23/9.
207. Flight Magazine, 5 April 1913.
208. Ibid.
209. Flight Magazine, 25 January 1913.
210. Ibid, 8 March 1913.
211. Ibid, 29 March 1913.
212. Ibid.
213. Ibid
214. Ibid, 30 August 1913.
215. Ibid, 29 March 1913.
216. Flight Magazine, 5 July 1913.
217. Airmen or Noahs, p 119.
218. Flight Magazine, 26 July 1913.
219. Irish Times, 24 July 1913.
220. Usborne papers.
221. CID 179B Cab 38/24/21 dated 7.6.13
222. Usborne papers.
223. The Airship No 3, p 48.
224. Irish Times, 27 May 1913.
225. Flight Magazine, 17 May 1913.
226. Ibid
227. Ibid, 6 June 1913.
228. The Airship No 3, p 48.
229. Irish Times, 13 June 1913.
230. Ibid, 18 June 1913.
231. Ibid, 27 June 1913.
232. The Air Weapon, p 224.
233. Air 1/627/17/100, dated 14 September 1913.
234. New York Times, 21 August 1913.
235. AIR 1/627/17/100.
236. The Father of British Airships, p 114.
237. AIR 1/627/17/100.
238. Flight Magazine, 30 August 1913.
239. From Many Angles, p 110.
240. The War in the Air, p 229.
241. The Times, 4 October 1913.
242. Airmen or Noahs, p 126.
243. The Air Weapon, p 225.
244. Flight Magazine, 11 October 1913.
245. Usborne papers.
246. The Times, 13 September 1913.
247. Ibid, 27 September 1913.
248. Clive Maitland Waterlow, p 231.
249. Flight Magazine, 1 November 1913.
250. Daily Chronicle, 20 October 1913.
251. Airmen or Noahs, p 119.
252. A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War One, p 10.
253. Edward M. Maitland, p 36.
254. Ibid.
255. The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government 1909–14, p 219–220.
256. Usborne papers.
257. The Airship No 3, p 48.
258. Airship Navigator, p 12.
259. Flight Magazine, 13 December 1913.
260. Ibid.
261. Ibid.
262. Ibid.
263. Ibid.
264. Ibid.
265. ADM 1/8378 (1.7.14)
266. The Airship No 3, p 48.
267. Flight Magazine, 10 January 1914.
268. The Times, 24 February 1913.
269. Cab 37/119/47
270. CID 190B Cab 38/27/22
271. Adm 1/8621 (7.6.14)
272. The Airship No 3, p 48.
273. Usborne papers.
274. Kingsnorth Airship Station, p 19.
275. Ibid, p 20.
Chapter 4
1. Kingsnorth Airship Station, p82.
2. The War in the Air, p 361–64.
3. Airmen or Noahs, p 121.
4. DAD No 12055 August 1914.
5. Usborne papers.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. AIR 1/240/15/226/69
9. Tumult in the Clouds, p 165.
10. Flight Magazine, 25 September 1914.
11. Cab 37/121/125 (16.10.14)
12. Airmen or Noahs, p 166.
13. Cab 37/121/125 (16.10.14)
14. Usborne papers.
15. Ibid.
16. Kingsnorth Airship Station, p 35.
17. Airship Experimental Report 1915.
18. Flight Magazine, 25 December 1914.
19. Cab 37/123 (1.1.15).
20. Usborne papers.
21. Airship Pilot No 28, p 36.
22. Flight Magazine, 30 April 1915.
23. Airships over the North Channel, p 13.
24. Handbook of SS Type Airships.
25. Usborne papers.
26. The Times, 18 July 1925.
27. The Airship No 3, p 48.
28. The War in the Air, p 463.
29. Airship Navigator, p 20.
30. The British Airship at War 1914–18, p 45.
31. Airmen or Noahs, p 122.
32. The World Crisis, p 1623–1624.
33. Ibid, p 285.
34. Elmhirst papers.
35. Airship Pilot No 28, p 67.
36. Usborne papers.
37. Airship Pilot no 28, p 47.
38. Ibid.
39. Airmen or Noahs, p 124.
40. Elmhirst papers.
41. The World Crisis, p 284.
42. Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine, p 59.
43. Appendix 3 to CID 137B Cab 38/19/60
44. Great Britain and Sea Power 1815–1853, p 202.
45. Flight: 100 Years of Aviation, p 94.
46. Expectation and Reality – the Great War in the Air, p 1.
47. The World Crisis, p 284–85.
48. Tumult in the Clouds, p 144.
49. Zeppelins over England, p 49.
50. Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine, p 71.
51. Ibid.
52. Sailor in the Air, p 145.
53. Air 1/2633 dated 18 October 1915.
54. Usborne papers.
55. Airmen or Noahs, p 16.
56. Usborne papers.
57. Air 1/2633 dated 18 October 1915.
58. Air 1/2639 dated 19 February 1916.
59. Irish Aviators of World War 1, p xxv.
60. Air 1/2639 undated.
61. The Airship No 3, p 46.
62. Usborne papers.
63. Airship Navigator, p 20.
64. The War in the Air Volume II, p 386.
65. Usborne papers.
66. The Times, 10 October 1931.
67. Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine, p 98.
68. Ibid, p 94.
69. Airmen or Noahs, p 22.
70. Ibid, p 130, quoting from The Grand Fleet by Lord Jellicoe, p 489.
71. The Times, 31 August 1921.
72. Usborne papers.
Chapter 5
1. Airmen or Noahs, p 125.
2. Ibid, p 3
3. Battlebags, p 136.
4. The British Airship at War 1914–18, p 48.
5. Battlebags, p 143.
6. Vickers Aircraft since 1908, p 27.
7. Zeppelins: German Airships 1900–40, p 33–34.
8. Zeppelins: German Airships 1900–40, p 46.
9. Airmen or Noahs, p 128.
10. Sailor in the Air, p 206.
11. Airmen or Noahs, p 137.
12. Battlebags, p 80.
13. Airship Pilot No 28, p 64–65.
14. Air 1/275 (26.3.1918)
15. Adm. 167/55 (26.10.1918)
16. Airmen or Noahs, p 35–36.
17. Usborne papers.
18. The RNAS Airship Service, p 88.
19. Airmen or Noahs, p 26, quoting Blackwood’s Magazine, April 1919, page 561, Vol MCCXLII
20. The War in the Air, p 464.
21. Airship Pilot no 28, p 36.
22. The Black Ship, p 157.
23. The Story of the Airship (Non-Rigid), p 48.
24. The Forgotten Blimps of World War Two, p 3.
25. Trapeze Artists, p 382.
26. Airmen or Noahs, p 148.
27. Trapeze Artists, p 383.
28. Ibid, p 383.
29. Ibid, p 385.
30. Usborne papers.
Appendix 1
1. First Military Aviator, by Jon Guttman, in Aviation History, November 2012.
2. Lighter-than-air-Craft, p 15.
3. The Air Weapon, p 26.
4. Army Wings, p 7 and Balloons in War 1784–1902, p 69.
5. Balloons in War 1784–1902, p 73.
6. The Eye in the Air, p 14.
7. The Air Weapon, p 33.
8. Cochrane – the Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain, p 72.
9. Ibid, p 76.
10. The Eye in the Air, p 16.
11. The Air Weapon, p 27.
12. Lighter-than-air-Craft, p 22.
Appendix 2
1. The History of Early British Military Aeronautics, p 5–6.
Appendix 4
1. The Times, 19 October 1910.
Appendix 5
1. Flight Magazine, 5 November 1910.
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