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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you look up in the Houston skies this weekend and see what looks like a giant cucumber floating through the clouds, you aren't hallucinating. Hendrick's Gin, the maker of a super premium gin made ...

According to Airships.com: A dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is both powered and steerable (as opposed to free floating, like a balloon). Blimps like the Goodyear blimp, rigid airships ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Thursday that it intends to spend $400 million to develop a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above Earth for 10 years, providing unblinking and intricate ...

When the Macon was launched in 1933, the giant dirigible was more than just the biggest object ever to sail through the skies. To a nation laid low by the Depression, it was a symbol of hope.

First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel’s dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched Erik Ofgang - History Correspondent “When I was making it, people ...

According to Airships.com: A dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is both powered and steerable (as opposed to free floating, like a balloon). Blimps like the Goodyear blimp, rigid airships ...