Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Weston, CEO of LTA Research, talks about the test section for the airship Pathfinder 3 Thursday at the Akron Airdock. The ...

The British airship R101 was the “Titanic” of the skies, a steel-framed giant nearly 800 feet long. On the evening of Oct. 4, 1930, the R101 set off from Cardington, north of London, en route to an ...

Airships, sometimes called dirigibles, dirigible balloons or blimps, are lighter-than-air aircraft whose popularity peak was reached in the interwar period. Back then they were used for passenger and ...

Around 86 years ago, a German airship, the Hindenburg, crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster still resonates, thanks to newsreel footage and the dramatic recording made by radio broadcaster ...

Charles Lindbergh's rise to fame wasn't fueled just by his daring adventures, such as his first-ever solo flight across the Atlantic, or his navigation of uncharted routes to help map the future of ...

Welcome to the 21st century. Flying cars. Disposable clothing. And overhead, fleets of majestic airships, ferrying glamorous international passengers from America to Europe and back again, all through ...

Zeppelins, the rigid airships most famously epitomized by the Hindenburg, now seem kind of retro, rather than the image of futurity they represented in the 1930s. But they could be about to make a ...

The largest airship to be built in the United States since the 1930s is expected to start taking shape later this year inside the Akron Airdock, with its first flight possibly coming in 2023. And the ...