Books and Magazines
The BBM&L Library used to be at the University of Cranfield but the collection is currently looking for a more central home. It is a reference-only collection, and the Library is unable to lend any books or other publications. A small selection is shown below.
The British Balloon Museum is pleased to accept donations of balloon literature of any kind, including books entirely on lighter than air flight, magazine articles, birthday cards, balloon cards, packaging, printed programmes from balloon meets and pilot’s packs. Log books of historical balloons or persons associated with ballooning are welcome, as they reflect the development of the sport.
| Cat No. | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| BO0000188 | L/A – Notes on Aerostation & Kite Balloon Notes | |
| BO0000215 | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aviation & Space | |
| MA114 | National Geographic Magazine February 1977 – The Silver Fox | |
| MA115 | National Geographic Magazine December 1978 – Double Eagle II | |
| BO0000192 | ? | Das Werk Zeppelins |
| BO0000194 | ? | 30 Jahre. Luftschiffahrt – Zeppelin |
| BO0000201 | A de St SauverC & A DolfusJean Renee Fontaine | L’Atlantique en Ballon |
| BO0000193 | A Hildebrandt | Luft =, Schiff =, Fahrt |
| BO0000114 | Abbott P | Airships |
| BO0000183 | Abbott P | Airships |
| BO0000148 | Adams-Ray E | Andrée Diaries |
| BO0000065 | Airship Guarantee Co | Airship R100 |
| BO0000173 | Allan I | The Last Great Adventure |
| BO0000039 | Allen J | Aviation & Space Museums of America |
| BO0000025 | Bacon G | Record of an Aeronaut |
| BO0000013 | Baker J A | British Balloons |
| BO0000017 | Baker J A | Balloons and Ballooning |
| BO0000202 | Benoit Peeters | Les Metamorphoses de Nadar |
| BO0000066 | Bertrand R | Petite Histoire Ill.des Ailes Francaises |
| BO0000213 | Bill Gunston | Aviation – The Story of Flight |
| BO0000087 | Blakemore T L | Pressure Airships |
| BO0000008 | Boesman J | Luchtschepen en Ballons |
| BO0000147 | Bookbinder A | Comrades |
| BO0000042 | Bothe W-B | Ballonfahren in Munster |
| BO0000009 | Botting D | Shadow in the Clouds |
| BO0000040 | Botting D | The Giant Airships |
| BO0000022 | Brewer G | Fifty Years of Flying |
| BO0000060 | Brewer G | Some Kite Balloon Experiments |
| BO0000129 | Bridgeman W | Lonely Sky |
| BO0000132 | Bridgman L | Jane’s all the World’s Aircraft 1953-54 |
| BO0000133 | Bridgman L | Jane’s all the World’s Aircraft 1952-53 |
| BO0000134 | Bridgman L | Jane’s all the World’s Aircraft 1947 |
| BO0000135 | Bridgman L | Jane’s all the World’s Aircraft 1943-44 |
| BO0000011 | Briggs G O | Move Over Jet Here Comes The Zep |
| BO0000048 | Brooks P W | Historic Airships |
| BO0000049 | Burge C G | Complete Book of Aviation |
| BO0000084 | Burgess C P | Airship Design |
| BO0000105 | Buttlar Brandenfels | Zeppeline gegen England |
| BO0000019A | Cameron Balloons | Cameron Balloons |
| BO0000027 | Cameron D | Ballooning Handbook |
| BO0000029 | Castle H G | Fire Over England |
| BO0000209 | CES Mowthorpe | Battlebags – British Airships of the First World War |
| BO0000157 | Cescotti R | Aviation Dictionary German/English |
| BO0000097 | Chandler C D | Balloon and Airship Gases |
| BO0000137 | Chandler C deF | Aircraft Power Plants |
| BO0000223 | Charles A Lindburg | We |
| BO0000184 | Charles D | Story of Aircraft |
| BO0000146 | Charlwood D | No Moon Tonight |
| BO0000179 | Christopher J | Hot Air |
| BO0000077 | Clarke B | History of Airships |
| BO0000190 | CN ShawcrossKM Beaumont | Air Law |
| BO0000127 | Collier B | Heavenly Adventurer |
| BO0000002 | Cornish J J | Air Arm of the Confederacy |
| BO0000217 | Count de la Vaulx | Les Derigibles Pt.IIChapters 15-17 |
| BO0000218 | Count de la Vaulx | Les Derigibles Pt.IIChapters 18-19 |
| BO0000178 | Coxwell H | My Life and Balloon Experiences |
| BO0000180 | Coxwell H | My Life & Balloon Experiences.2nd Series |
| BO0000068 | Davy M J B | Aeronautics |
| BO0000140 | De Havilland | De Havilland Hydromatic Propellor |
| BO0000074 | Dean C | Housing the Airship |
| BO0000041 | Deighton L | Airshipwreck |
| BO0000115 | Dick H G | Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg |
| BO0000003 | Dixon P L | Ballooning |
| BO0000061 | Dolder F | Himmelfahrt mit Helvetia |
| BO0000220 | Douglas Botting | Dr Eckeners Dream Machine |
| BO0000051 | Ebert W M | Vom Abenteuer Ballonfahren |
| BO0000100 | Eckener H | My Zeppelins |
| BO0000023 | Ege L | Balloons and Airships 1783-1973 |
| BO0000057 | Egleton C | A Falcon for the Hawks |
| BO0000156 | Eiloart A | Flight of the Small World |
| BO0000016 | Fabb J | Flying and Ballooning |
| BO0000052 | Finlay W | Famous Flights of Airships and Balloons |
| BO0000195 | FJJ Sharman | Basil Blimp – The big Balloon |
| BO0000196 | FJJ Sharman | Micro Airships |
| BO0000203 | FJJ Sharman | Introduction to Micro Airships – End of the Second Wave |
| BO0000126 | Fokker A H G | Flying Dutchman |
| BO0000206 | Frances K Mason M Windrow | The Concise Encyclopedia of Aviation |
| BO0000214 | G Gibbard Jackson | The World’s Aeroplanes and Airships |
| BO0000026 | Gardiner L | Lunardi |
| BO0000026A | Gardiner L | Man in the Clouds |
| BO0000004 | Gibbs-Smith C H | Ballooning |
| BO0000078 | Gibbs-Smith C H | Sir George Cayley’s Aeronautics |
| BO0000174 | Gibbs-Smith C H | Aeronautics |
| BO0000139 | Golding H | Wonder Book of Aircraft |
| BO0000104 | Goote T | Peter Strasser der F.d.L. |
| BO0000121 | Graham-White C | Aeroplane |
| BO0000141 | Green W | Aircraft of the World |
| BO0000145 | Green W | Jet Aircraft of the World |
| BO0000159 | Green W | Observer’s Book of Aircraft |
| BO0000160 | Green W | Observer’s Book of Aircraft |
| BO0000001B | Grover G E | Military Ballooning, 1862 |
| BO0000054 | Gunston B | Aviation |
| BO0000191 | Gunter Schmidt Werner Schwipps | 20 Kapitel Fruhe Luftfarht |
| BO0000067 | Hachette L | Encyclopedie par L’Image L’Aviation |
| BO0000151 | Haggard H R | Allan Quatermain |
| BO0000069 | Hansen Z | The Goodyear Airships |
| BO0000046 | Hardy A | Weekend with Willows |
| BO0000181 | Harper H | Man’s Conquest of the Air |
| BO0000099 | Hartcup G | Achievement of the Airship |
| BO0000091 | Heichen W | Abenteuer der Luft |
| BO0000073 | Higham R | British Rigid Airship, 1908-1931 |
| BO0000092 | Hildebrandt A | Balloons and Airships |
| BO0000076 | Hodges G | Memoirs of an Old Balloonatic |
| BO0000070 | Hood J F | Story of Airships |
| BO0000175 | Hooks M J | Aviation Year No.1. |
| BO0000176 | Hooks M J | Aviation Year No.2. |
| BO0000059 | Hooper D | 10th Anniversary Dublin Ballooning Club |
| BO0000155 | Huddleston J | Earth is but One Country |
| BO0000030 | Jackson D D | Aeronauts |
| BO0000081 | Jackson R | Airships in Peace and War |
| BO0000010 | Jenkinson A K | Balloons Around the World |
| BO0000221 | John Christopher | Riding the Jetstream |
| BO0000222 | John Christopher | Ballooning – From Basics to Record Breaking |
| BO0000098 | Johnson V E | Flying and Some of Its Mysteries |
| BO0000012 | Keller C L | U.S.S. Shenandoah |
| BO0000082 | Knausel H G | Zeppelin and the United Sates of America |
| BO0000158 | Lawrence J | Observer’s Book of Airplanes |
| BO0000161 | Lawrence J | Observer’s Book of Aircraft |
| BO0000079 | Leasor J | Millionth Chance |
| BO0000015 | Lee A G | Flying Cathedral |
| BO0000186 | Leeder D B | Aviation Vol.1. Balloons and Airships |
| BO0000096 | Lehmann E A | Zeppelins |
| BO0000197 | Leo Dicknson | Ballooning over Everest |
| BO0000152 | Lewis C | Sagittarius Rising |
| BO0000123 | Lewis P | British Aircraft 1809-1914 |
| BO0000113 | Linke F | Die Luftschiffahrt |
| BO0000106 | Litchfield P W | Why? |
| BO0000177 | Mabley E H | The Motor Balloon “America” |
| BO0000050 | Mackworth-Praed B | Aviation: The Pioneer Years |
| BO0000182 | Malpas E | Lighter than Air |
| BO0000112 | Marben R | Zeppelin Adventures |
| BO0000033 | McCarry C | Double Eagle |
| BO0000090 | McKinty A | Father of British Airships |
| BO0000144 | McPhee J | Deltoid Pumpkin Seed |
| BO0000053 | Meager G | My Airship Flights 1915-1930 |
| BO0000204 | Michael M Mooney | The Hindenburg |
| BO0000036 | Miller C | Airships and Balloons |
| BO0000083 | Morris A | Balloonatics |
| BO0000058 | Moss P W | The British Civil Aircraft Registers |
| BO0000118 | Mowforth E | An Introduction to the Airship |
| BO0000205 | MR Apne | [In Russian] |
| BO0000110 | Nielsen T | Zeppelin Story |
| BO0000108 | Nimfuhr R | Dir Luftschiffahrt |
| BO0000102 | Nobile U | My Polar Flights |
| BO0000103 | Nobile U | My Five Years with Soviet Airships |
| BO0000198 | Norman Pritchard | British Records |
| BO0000199 | Norman Pritchard | World Records |
| BO0000200 | Norman Pritchard | British Balloon & Airship Competitions Handbook |
| BO0000072 | Owen D | Flight |
| BO0000005 | Park R M | Diary of a Wayward Balloon |
| BO0000187 | Paul Garrison | The Encyclopedia of Hot Air Ballooning |
| BO0000208 | Paul R Hare | The Royal Aircraft Factory |
| BO0000120 | Pesce G | The Italian Airships |
| BO0000130 | Pollard A O | Boy’s Book of Aviation |
| BO0000088 | Poolman K | Zeppelins Over England |
| BO0000080 | Pritchard J L | Sir George Cayley |
| BO0000117 | Publisher | They Were Dependable |
| BO0000119 | Publisher | Airships – A New Look |
| BO0000035 | Rechs R J | Who’s Who of Ballooning |
| BO0000224 | Richard G Van Treuren | Hindenburg – The Wrong Paint |
| BO0000047 | Riley J | Foxcub KitBook of the Goodyear Airship |
| BO0000136 | Robertson B | British Military A/C Serials 1911-1979 |
| BO0000109 | Robinson D H | Zeppelin in Combat |
| BO0000034 | Rolt L T C | Aeronauts |
| BO0000225 | Rosalind Plume | Dante Balloon Group – The First 25 Years |
| BO0000225A | Rosalind Plume | Dante Balloon Group – The Next Five Years |
| BO0000021 | Saffery C | Mini Ballooning |
| BO0000063 | Sage T | Don Cameron Balloons |
| BO0000075 | Schutte E H J | Luftschiffbau Schutte-Lanz 1909-1925 |
| BO0000211 | SE Ellacott | The Story of Aircraft |
| BO0000111 | Seibel C W | Helium |
| BO0000024 | Shepherd D | When The Chute Went Up |
| BO0000153 | Shute N | Slide Rule |
| BO0000093 | Simmonds R | All About Aircraft |
| BO0000122 | Simons D G | Man High |
| BO0000107 | Sinclair J A | Famous Airships of the World |
| BO0000018 | Smith A | Throw Out Two Hands |
| BO0000116 | Smith R K | Airships Akron and Macon |
| BO0000062 | Spelterini S | High Alpine Ballooning |
| BO0000154 | Spoerl H | Der Gasmann |
| BO0000043 | Straub H | Fliegen mit Feuer und Gas |
| BO0000128 | Thetford O | Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-57 |
| BO0000210 | Tim Childerhouse | The Aldershot Aeronauts |
| BO0000006 | Turnbull C | Hot Air Ballooning |
| BO0000086 | Upson R H | Free and Captive Balloons |
| BO0000085 | Vaeth J G | Graf Zeppelin |
| BO0000032 | Ventry A F D | Airship Saga |
| BO0000056 | Ventry A F D | Janes Pocket Book of Airship Development |
| BO0000014 | Verne J | Cinq Semaines en Ballon |
| BO0000138 | von Karman T | Aerodynamics |
| BO0000045 | Wagoner D | Ropes & Tether Systems |
| BO0000095 | Warner E P | Aerostatics |
| BO0000007 | Warwick A R | Ballooning |
| BO0000212 | Will Hayes | The Complete Ballooning Book |
| BO0000089 | Williams T B | Airship Pilot No.28. |
| BO0000124 | Williamson M M | Aircraft Development & Production (1) |
| BO0000125 | Winston R A | Dive Bomber |
| BO0000055 | Wragg D W | Flight before Flying |
| BO0000094 | Wykeham P | Santos-Dumont |
