The project aims to make readers experience the 1929 adventure through the testimony of one of its passengers and images of the golden age of zeppelins.View on euronews ...

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in ...

Born into German nobility in 1838, Ferdinand von Zeppelin attended an engineering college and then joined the German army. During the U.S. Civil War, he was sent to Virginia to serve as an observer ...

From 1921 to 1935, the Navy maneuvered five lighter-than-air flying giants, with occasional visits to San Diego. But the ...

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 ...

An airship parked this week at the Port of Beaumont has departed for San Francisco. An initial trek, from the port to the Southeast Texas Regional Airport, is the first domestic flight of a Zeppelin ...

On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo Megías fulfilled his dream by embarking on the first trip around the world in the Graf Zeppelin. It was not the first time that Megías, King Alfonso XIII ...