Long before the first airplanes took to the skies, humans had already overcome gravity with the help of airships. Starting with crude hot air balloons, the 18th century saw the development of more ...

The blimp, the airship, the dirigible. Whatever you call them, you probably don’t find yourself thinking about them too often. They were an easy way to get airborne, predating the invention of the ...

In three enthralling episodes, The Airships reveals the dynamic role these remarkable flying machines played in history, in peacetime and in war. Steeped in the drama of international political ...

One hundred years after the first U.S. Navy airship took to the skies, zeppelins and blimps are poised to make a comeback Mark Piesing The USS Shenandoah leaves its hangar at the Lakehurst Naval Air ...

Composites enable next-generation rigid airship design. LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1, its first full-scale, electric-powered prototype airship, is shown here during construction in Mountain View, Calif ...

Few modes of transportation have captured the public’s imagination like blimps and other airships. Something about these lighter-than-air aircraft evokes the past and feels futuristic simultaneously.

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When I say “airship,” you might think of the Goodyear Blimp, now celebrating 100 years of advertising tires by slowly hovering above outdoor sporting events. Or, if you’re drawn to the macabre, recall ...