Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 From the 1850s to the 1890s

Chapter 2 From the 1890s to the start of Neville’s Aviation Career

Chapter 3 The ‘Golden Age’ before August 1914

Chapter 4 From August 1914 to February 1916

Chapter 5 Usborne’s Achievements and his Legacy

Appendix I: Lighter-than-Air Flight Before the Advent of the Dirigible

Appendix II: Airship Terms

Appendix III: ‘Air Battles of the Future’

Appendix IV: The Clément-Bayard Airship

Appendix V: The Lebaudy Airship of 1910

Appendix VI: The British Army – Early Heavier-than-Air Craft

Appendix VII: The Origins of Fixed-wing Aviation in the Royal Navy

Notes

References