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Postcards celebrating the night a German airship was shot down. Britain was attacked from the sky for the first time, early in 1915. No one expected air raids, so when German airships first flew ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most ...

With the airship exposed, the big guns of anti-aircraft batteries ringing London go into action. Flashes light the horizon and booming sounds shatter the silence. The response—from German ...

CargoLifter built the world’s largest free-standing building, big enough to hold 14 Boeing 747s, for its prototype CL-75 airship. Courtesy Cargolifter German Entrepreneur Carl von Gablenz had an ...

with improvements that would set the hearts of 1930s German and American airship builders aflutter. So what is going on here? Are we about to see these floating giants darken the skies once more?