The wreck of the USS Shenandoah is ingrained in the identity of Noble County, where residents still preserve remnants of the ...

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 ...

It was 100 years ago this week – way back in 1924, in the thick of the early roaring days of aviation history – when a giant U.S. Navy airship visited the Puget Sound and took the population by storm.

NORFOLK, Va.-- Nancy Sheppard is a local historian shining a light on a forgotten disaster. It’s a history lesson that every person in Hampton Roads should hear. “It spent 95 years being forgotten,” ...

Pictured is the airship AC-1 at Scott Field circa 1923. File photo courtesy of the Oluf T. Jensen Collection at the 375th Air Mobility Wing History Office On May 3, 1923, Scott Field’s latest ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LONDON — A blimp-shaped, helium-filled airship considered the world’s ...

Airships, which are best known today for their use as advertising blimps, have long been recognized for their potential as large, low-emissions transportation vessels that can haul huge amounts of ...

While it would be inaccurate to say that rigid airships have been relegated to history, few methods of transportation have ever faced such a setback based on a single incident. When LZ 129 Hindenburg ...

Hybrid Air Vehicles’ prototype AirLander 10 airship embarks on a test flight over Cardington, England, in August 2016. The company hopes to have production models flying in 2025. Tom Grundy, the CEO ...