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 ...

The Moffett Field Historical Society is undertaking a multi-year restoration of the control car from the WWII-era blimp K-22. Parts of K-22 were accidentally discovered in Hangar One during its ...

Long before the first airplanes took to the skies, humans had already overcome gravity with the help of airships. Starting with crude hot air balloons, the 18th century saw the development of more ...

On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” USS Macon (ZRS-5) was lost in a storm of the California coast. Having once ...

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.

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 ...

On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship Shenandoah ZR-1 — translated to “daughter of the stars” — crashed in three sections over Noble County, Ohio. Designated by the U.S. Navy as an aircraft for use in long ...

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 ...

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 ...