History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison’s plaintive cry, “Oh, the ...
Explore the extraordinary true story of Umberto Nobile, his dog Titina, and their survival after a deadly airship crash in ...
In 1928, Umberto Nobile’s airship Italia reached the North Pole, only to crash on the return journey and leave part of its crew stranded on drifting Arctic ice while the balloon section vanished with ...
That fireball was LZ37. Nobody wanted to see repeats post-war. Image: “The great exploit of lieutenant Warnefort 1916 England” by Gordon Crosby, public domain. After all the crashing and burning of ...