This isn't inviting bad karma, it's learning from past mistakes. Rigid airships are making a comeback, but perhaps few others are as bold as the Solar Airship One project. The airship era ...

What You Need to Know: The Akron-class airships, Akron and Macon, represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy's only flying aircraft carriers. Built by Goodyear ...

Euro Airship plans to build and launch Solar Airship One, a rigid, solar- and hydrogen-powered airship designed for a zero-emissions, around-the-world flight. The airship will utilize solar panels ...

A 230-foot-long inflatable, the Pelican, will lift off in America next week - the first rigid airship to take flight since the Hindenburg disaster.

SAN DIEGO—Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s LTA Research is preparing to begin outdoor flight tests of its Pathfinder 1 large rigid airship after getting the 120-m-long (393-ft.) technology ...

Several years ago some of the most prominent leaders in automotive industries cooperated to form a purely engineering group that had as its primary purpose developing a type of rigid-airship ...

The company considers the Pilgrim —the airship that debuted in 1925—to be the first official Goodyear Blimp. It was also the first commercial non-rigid airship to use helium.

THE future of the rigid airship from the commercial point of view is brought prominently into notice by a paper lately issued by the Air Ministry entitled “Notes on Airships for Commercial ...

Rigid airships could potentially use far less carbon dioxide than boats. And a solar-powered airship could use jet streams to fly across the globe in record time.

AT2 Aerospace, the company that continues the Lockheed Martin work on a hybrid airship, hints that it's closer than ever to market launch.