If you ever mention the word dirigible or airship to anyone, you'll typically get two answers, Hindenburg and marketing. The first was an unfortunate event that led to the demise of an industry, and ...

If you look up in the Houston skies this weekend and see what looks like a giant cucumber floating through the clouds, you aren't hallucinating. Hendrick's Gin, the maker of a super premium gin made ...

In the March 1912 issue of Popular Mechanics, during the height of airship "balloonacy," one of the world's first aeronautical engineers Victor Lougheed wrote an article arguing that lighter-than-air ...

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) – Bob Jones has a lofty idea for improving communications around the world: Strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on ...

According to Airships.com: A dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is both powered and steerable (as opposed to free floating, like a balloon). Blimps like the Goodyear blimp, rigid airships ...

The RS-1, largest semi-rigid dirigible in the world and the largest of any airship in the army air service, had its second test flight Friday afternoon over O’Fallon, this time remaining in the air ...

When the Macon was launched in 1933, the giant dirigible was more than just the biggest object ever to sail through the skies. To a nation laid low by the Depression, it was a symbol of hope.

The first time Don McDonald went to Grand Central airport was in 1929. He and his father watched the launch of the metal dirigible built by Thomas B. Slate, a local inventor who had developed ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Thursday that it intends to spend $400 million to develop a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above Earth for 10 years, providing unblinking and intricate ...

According to Airships.com: A dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is both powered and steerable (as opposed to free floating, like a balloon). Blimps like the Goodyear blimp, rigid airships ...