From 1921 to 1935, the Navy maneuvered five lighter-than-air flying giants, with occasional visits to San Diego. But the endeavor met with several catastrophes.

It's a plane, it's a helicopter, it's a butt-shaped blimp. The Airlander 10 is like no other aircraft in the skies. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, he ...

Here’s a radical idea: the U.S. Navy should embrace airships to supplement its battle fleets. Nearly a hundred years after the Navy tinkered with airships, a new proposal has emerged that would see ...

The World Sky Race, a series of airship rallies around the planet, flying over the homes of two billion people, has a $5m ...

“It was beautiful! And she was getting her work done. So — where had this obsession with speed come from, why had everyone caved to it so completely? Because people did what everyone else did. Because ...

Airships are often viewed as symbols of alternate realities or animated films. Though slower than planes and less powerful ...

They're not going to replace the 747, but it looks like the airships may be making a comeback. On its website, American Blimp Corp. explains how airships work. Non-rigid airships, known as blimps, ...

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In their time and in their brief day, they were the lords of the skies. A little more than a century ago, giant airships that resembled huge sausages, as long as a city block, moved majestically ...