If you ever mention the word dirigible or airship to anyone, you'll typically get two answers, Hindenburg and marketing. The first was an unfortunate event that led to the demise of an industry, and ...

In the March 1912 issue of Popular Mechanics, during the height of airship "balloonacy," one of the world's first aeronautical engineers Victor Lougheed wrote an article arguing that lighter-than-air ...

Millions of visitors to the St. Louis Exposition were awed by the feats of aeronaut Roy Knabenshue (in New Jersey, fourth from left, in 1910, with Walter Brookins, in short-sleeve shirt, and Glenn ...

The RS-1, largest semi-rigid dirigible in the world and the largest of any airship in the army air service, had its second test flight Friday afternoon over O’Fallon, this time remaining in the air ...

The dirigible airship, the oddball aircraft of another era, is making a comeback. California-based Aeros Corporation has created a prototype of its new breed of variable buoyancy aircraft and expects ...

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) – Bob Jones has a lofty idea for improving communications around the world: Strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on ...

LOS ANGELES --The fabled Goodyear Blimp is retiring. But don't fret, blimp fans. That big, cigar-shaped thing you've seen floating over sports events all your life will still be there. It will also ...

The first time Don McDonald went to Grand Central airport was in 1929. He and his father watched the launch of the metal dirigible built by Thomas B. Slate, a local inventor who had developed ...

THE new exhibition at the Keith de Lellis Gallery, “New York: A Bird’s-Eye View,” has a striking assortment of aerial views of the city. No image is more arresting than that of the Navy dirigible Los ...