Airship Handling DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY flight history Naval aircraft WWII blimps Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Atlantis Productions Media: DVD Airship Handling, the video companion to James Shock's book, American Airship Bases and Facilities, is a video history of the US Naval airship as seen by their ground handlers in the 1920's, '30's, `40's and '50's. The presentation begins with the only known titled film made of the USS Los Angeles' tests of her riding-out trolley. Next comes an edited and titled film detailing landing, mooring and docking the USS Macon at Moffett Field, California in 1934. "K-type Air-ship Landing Operations" follows: A color, sound added film made at Lakehurst, New Jersey during WW II. The program con-tinues with a rare, color training film covering the launch and re-covery of the huge ZPG-2 type ASW airship, made as the Navy had adopted mechanical "mules" to manage the big blimps on the ground. Video transfers made from National Archives and National Air and Space Museum original prints. DVD Conversion by Airship International Press. B&W and color. Approximately 40 minutes. For DVD Player (North American NTSC)
