From glorified balloons to military vehicles, we look up at the flighty past of dirigibles. Inventors Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries are the first to cross the English Channel in a hydrogen ...

The R101 disaster remains one of the most devastating airship tragedies in aviation history. Built as part of Britain’s ambitious airship program, the massive craft was intended to connect the British ...

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.

Crouch, Tom D. 2009. Lighter than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

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-Zeppelin in ...

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build ...

The blimp, the airship, the dirigible. Whatever you call them, you probably don’t find yourself thinking about them too often. They were an easy way to get airborne, predating the invention of the ...