It's a bird; it's a plane!! It's a ... cloud?! No, it's a massive, once-military-grade hover-capable blimp designed to ...

AT2 Aerospace, the company that continues the Lockheed Martin work on a hybrid airship, hints that it's closer than ever to ...

Long before the first airplanes took to the skies, humans had already overcome gravity with the help of airships. Starting ...

The US Navy had five rigid airships, each met with different fates - most cruelly, all but one crashed. Using helium as opposed to hydrogen, these airships had potential advantages, quite the ...

Pathfinder 1, bankrolled by a Google billionaire, is an attempt to revive the airship. A century after terrifying disasters, is it a safe-enough bet?

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 ...

The Sparrowhawk was a type of plane known as a “parasite fighter” intended to be deployed from a larger aircraft, while N2Y-1s were a special training aircraft for rigid airships. Pilots could ...

This is the first semi-rigid airship to be built in the 95-year history of the Wingfoot Lake Hangar. For more than 87 years, the Goodyear blimps have appeared at the most watched news ...

The balloon-like body of the airship – the "envelope" – is made of polyester with an innovative film from DuPont™ called Tedlar®, surrounding a semi-rigid internal structure, which ...

Yet despite popular media having declared rigid airships such as the German Zeppelins to be dead and a figment of a historic fevered imagination, new rigid airships are being constructed today ...

Depending on a variety of factors, airships fall into different categories. When talking about the framework, we've got rigid, semi-rigid, or non-rigid airships, and when talking about what powers ...

"Pathfinder 1 is a pretty amazing vehicle," says Alan Shrimpton, editor of the Airship Journal. "It is the first fully rigid airship, certainly of that size, for a very long time, and there was a ...