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

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

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?

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, backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, marks a bold step in airship innovation. On October 24, 2024, LTA Research announced the airship’s first untethered flight at NASA’s Moffett ...

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 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 ...

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 ...