Reviving an early 20th-century ambition, an experimental airship debuted at Moffett Field in November, albeit for only a few minutes before technicians rolled the massive aircraft back inside its ...

Long since blimps stopped being useful, besides as floating billboards, America still associates the airship, somewhat ironically, with the tire company Goodyear. But according to the Associated Press ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The fabled Goodyear Blimp is retiring. But don't fret, blimp fans. That big, cigar-shaped thing you've seen floating over sports events all your life will still be there. It will ...

Word association with “airship” probably yields responses ranging from “Goodyear Blimp” to “Hindenburg.” Perhaps there’s also a vague sense that airships had their greatest run in popularity during ...

In “His Majesty’s Airship,” S.C. Gwynne tells of the doomed dirigible R101, and the man behind a disaster. By John Lancaster When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Operating from U.S. Navy airships during the early 1930s, diminutive Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawks tested one of the more ...

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 ...

Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped ...

It was a long, hard climb, even for the Navy, but “Rosie” finally made it. Last week President Roosevelt nominated Captain Charles E. Rosendahl, foremost U.S. airship expert, for promotion to rear ...

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — A blimp was sighted in the skies of northeastern and central Pennsylvania in the last few days, but how much do you know about these lighter-than-air aircraft? You may have seen ...

One hundred forty-two years ago today, on October 8, 1883, the first flight of an electric-motor powered airship took place. French brothers Albert-Charles and Gaston Tissandier piloted the dirigible ...