Heroic airmen and their exploits (Registro nro. 117483)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 18018861 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | D501 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Walters, E. Walter, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1877- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Heroic airmen and their exploits |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-08-29 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Fiona Holmes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Heroic airmen and their exploits by E. Walter Walters is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It traces the rise of flight and celebrates the courage of First World War pilots and aircrew, especially those who battled Zeppelins over Britain. Emphasizing narrative over technicalities, it highlights notable flyers and dramatic interceptions that captured the public imagination. The opening of the work sets a non-technical, commemorative tone, sketches the aim to illuminate brave deeds, and briefly outlines how the book will proceed. It surveys early airship progress (the Robert brothers, Giffard, Tissandier, Renard) and Santos-Dumont’s achievements, then moves through semi‑rigid and non‑rigid designs toward the Zeppelin, alongside the birth of the aeroplane from Wenham, Maxim, Langley, and the Wrights to Farman, Blériot, and Antoinette. Clear explanations of Zeppelin structure and buoyancy control, plus a primer on aeroplane handling and pilot training, prepare readers for wartime episodes. The narrative then recounts 1916 raids on Britain and the actions that stopped them: Robinson’s destruction of a Zeppelin at Cuffley, Sowrey and Brandon bringing down or forcing down two more (with the detailed inspection of L33), and Lieutenant W. K. Tempest’s night interception near Potters Bar—told through eyewitness scenes of searchlights, gunfire, blazing wreckage, and the honors that followed. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Charles H. Kelly, 1917 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Aeronautics |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/heroicairmenthei00walt/page/n7/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/heroicairmenthei00walt/page/n7/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76758">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76758</a> |
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