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 ...

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 ...

Remembered as one of the most jarring aviation disasters in history, the Hindenburg, the first airliner to provide commercial service between North America and Europe, burst into flames and crashed ...

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 ...

My Alerts is a service for subscribers. Please login or subscribe in order to use My Alerts. Aerospace company H2 Clipper says it has been granted a patent for an improved structural and delivery ...

On May 6, 1937, the airship Hindenburg burst into flames above a New Jersey airfield. Of the 97 people trapped aboard, 62 survived. Despite that relatively moderate loss of life, the Hindenburg still ...

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In the 1920s and ’30s, the Navy commissioned the first wave of what was envisioned as an armada of rigid airships — also known as dirigibles — lumbering across the skies like nesting dolls, disgorging ...