There’s one flying machine that demands all to stop in their tracks, regardless of whether they care about flying or not.

Airships promised luxury in the sky—but how did they stack up against ocean liners? From speed and safety to spectacle and ...

“I wanted to build airships.” We are standing in the vast wood-beamed hangar where one such vessel, a 400-foot-long “variable buoyancy functional cargo airship” called the Aeroscraft, is ...

Despite such tragedies, “N-4 Down” makes one wonder why airships are not in greater practical use today. Piesing deserves credit for bringing this forgotten bit of aerospace history back to light.

AirVenture fans talk about historic opportunity to see a Goodyear Blimp from the seat of another one in flight.

The airships, called Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicles (LEMVs), are designed to act as unblinking eyes in the sky for ground forces in Afghanistan.

As the ship moves forward, the layer of air slides back and out from under the hull. But blowing more bubbles to replenish it does not require much energy, so fuel savings of 5-10% are within ...

PHOTOS: Next-generation airships Residents of Southern California are no strangers to airships. The Goodyear blimp, based next to the 405 Freeway in Carson, regularly lumbers its way across ...

SOME of the problems that have to be solved when protecting airships against fire, due to electric sparks in the neighbourhood of free hydrogen, are discussed in an article in The Times of October ...

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 ...

Solar airships could make flying more environmentally friendly - but a trip from London to New York would take 3 DAYS Flying by jet is the most damaging transport option for the planet ...

Airships have been in South Florida since the 1930s when the U.S. Navy set up a base in Opa-locka. The 785-foot-long USS Akron and USS Macon were moored in what is now the Gold Coast Railroad Museum.