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 ...

Capt. Jack Dallas wowed onlookers when he showed up with his Stroebel airship during the 1907 Cedar Rapids Carnival. The airship used a large bag filled with hydrogen gas to float. Dallas — called an ...

The trials comes amid a growing need for systems that can provide a persistent capability to monitor oceans and other bodies ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on local history by Anchorage historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this ...

Around 86 years ago, a German airship, the Hindenburg, crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster still resonates, thanks to newsreel footage and the dramatic recording made by radio broadcaster ...

Two figures from Central Louisiana were among the first to help mankind get their feet off the ground in the early 1900s. Those men were Charles Page of Pineville, who built the first airship, and Leo ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - On Friday, September 19, Alexandria International Airport honored the legacies of two late Central ...

A piece of fabric from an ill-fated airship that crashed into the Humber 100 years ago is to be auctioned off. The material was cut from the R38/ZR2 airship that came down in the estuary on August 24, ...