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From: David Pike
Date: 2025 Nov 5, 10:47 -0800
Dave Walden you wrote:
I seriously recommend you look at the Kindle version. It’s written as a log the whole way through and costs pennies. If you go after a paper version, it’ll cost you an arm and a leg plus p&p.
Another useful source is Sir Arthur Whitten Brown's 'Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours. At Chapter IX, he discusses future Navigation, and at Chapter X he makes the case for the use of airships compared to aeroplanes as the best solution to transatlantic air travel. See https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/47129/pg47129-images.html
Incidentally, I learned yesterday that Maitland was somewhat more than a ‘passenger’ in the R38 when she broke up in the air. The whole tragic story is written up here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship . DaveP
