if being shot at by british fighter aircraft using incendary amunition counts as 'accident' you are right. for one reason or another the brits didn't like to be bombed from above and incendary rounds and large amonunts of hydrogene make for impressive fireworks.
Read the Wiki article that is sourced high winds alone destroyed a large number of German dirigibles during WWII.
... and what again forced them to go high if not somebody shooting at them at lower altitude. we can agree, though that airships are not much of military use besides long range maritime patrols and for weather work.
Yes I meant WW1. Dirigibles had to also fly high due to anti aircraft fire. True American dirigibles in the Carribean during WWII were successful in limiting U Boat attacks.... and what again forced them to go high if not somebody shooting at them at lower altitude. we can agree, though that airships are not much of military use besides long range maritime patrols and for weather work.
and i guess you meant WWI
Those airship were used to bomb London.... think of DC... 1864
They bombed Belgian cities too... think Northern cities before the election of 1864
Yes but the Germans weren't using 1860s technology to do so and there bombing of cities was more of a nuisance. The idea of the Confederacy actually using technology that a much more advanced nation wasn't able to practically use until sixty plus years later is a bit of a fantastical idea.
wouldn't even need an airfield
why are they part of the artillery branch?
Yes, the airships do tend to crash or bust into balls of fire but they could have done this to Washington , Baltamore, Phildeliphia or New York just four all you need...
The Zeppelin's used technology that was decades latter then the ACW. The Confederacy could not produce what would take Zeppelin decades to perfect well after the ACW.
but if James Douglas Kerrich from New Orleans would not have died as 2 year old in 1810
I have no idea who your talking about or how a twy year old influenced the design of dirrigibles.
he would have, but unfortunately he died
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Stringfellow's achievement is pretty well known. His drone was pretty small, but still it was a breakthrough. Samuel Langley's drones No. 5 and No. 6 were much bigger and had internal combustion engines. Not until the Wrights did a man successfully pilot an engine powered heavier than air plane.The first in flight... read the story of the real first powered flight....
First powered flight
If you happen to be passing through Chard, a small town in Somerset, England, you may be surprised to see signs welcoming you to the "birthplace of powered flight".
If you happen to be passing through Chard, a small town in Somerset, England, you may be surprised to see signs welcoming you to the “birthplace of powered flight”. If you don’t believe your eyes, head to the town centre. On the high street you can see a bronze statue commemorating the world’s first aeroplane.
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Yes and no. Kitty Hawk certainly deserves its place in aviation history, but so does Chard. In June 1848, inventor John Stringfellow achieved the seemingly impossible when his steam-powered aeroplane flew the length of a disused lace mill in the centre of town.
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Stringfellow thus came within a whisker of immortality, except for one thing: he himself did not fly. His aeroplane was what we would call a drone. It wasn’t until Orville Wright achieved his 12-second, 37-metre flight in Kitty Hawk in 1903 that humans finally emulated the birds and achieved heavier-than-air powered flight.
Here is a link to history.net... some details of the first powered flight...
William Henson and John Stringfellow: Pioneer Aviation Strategists
In the 1840s, British aeronautical pioneers envisioned a world where air travel would connect people around the globe.
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I interesting story...
