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 ...

Despite the 1937 disaster wherein a hydrogen-powered German airship known as the Hindenburg exploded over New Jersey killing 36, dirigibles have remained in flight for over 170 years. Known also as ...

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.

It’s longer than three Boeing 737s. Someday it could carry up to five tons of cargo and float from San Francisco to Chicago. Long hidden in a dark hangar at Moffett Field, the remarkable Pathfinder 1 ...

In 2025, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. is celebrating the 100th anniversary of building its first airship, the Pilgrim. The company built hundreds of airships, some for its own advertising use and ...

“Welcome to LTA: Where we are going to darken the skies.” This is how Alan Weston often greets people visiting his factory. He’s partly joking, partly expressing aspiration. Weston is the chief ...

Associated Press staff illustrator Noel Sickles's "artist's conception" of the crash of the USS Macon into the Pacific Ocean on 12 February 1935. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons For a few decades ...

The Winona Area Historical Society is inviting the public to attend “Tragedy To Triumph-100 Years of Airships in Ohio.” Two programs will be held: at 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday at the 1895 Meeting House in ...