They're not going to replace the 747, but it looks like the airships may be making a comeback. On its website, American Blimp Corp. explains how airships work. Non-rigid airships, known as blimps, ...

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 ...

Here’s a radical idea: the U.S. Navy should embrace airships to supplement its battle fleets. Nearly a hundred years after the Navy tinkered with airships, a new proposal has emerged that would see ...

In the years between the world wars, the US Navy experimented with massive rigid airships as flying scout cruisers. These ...

November 15, 2007 JP Aerospace has developed a class of twin balloon, high altitude, low cost utility airships that will be the highest flying airships ever built. Designed for use in ...

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In their time and in their brief day, they were the lords of the skies. A little more than a century ago, giant airships that resembled huge sausages, as long as a city block, moved majestically ...

Ever since the Hindenburg went up in flames, aeronautic manufacturers have dreamed of a future in which massive airships might one day dominate our airways. However, jets quickly emerged as the safer, ...

A picture from nuclear tests, codenamed Stokes, involving airships in 1957 during Operation Plumbbob.National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office In 1957, the US military tested whether ...