In the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British ...

The Graf Zeppelin accomplished several aviation firsts, including the first commercial transatlantic flight, and a round-the-world flight. The airship had a luxurious gondola with private cabins ...

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 ...

The original design contract was for a high-speed, high-altitude airship for military use which could fly higher and faster than the wartime German Zeppelins. The contract was awarded to Short ...

BEN ROBINSON:'By the end of the month, 'Germany's leading zeppelin captain, Heinrich Mathy, had also been killed, 'and four German airships had been reduced to scrap. BEN ROBINSON:'It was the ...

The tire company's iconic "lighter-than-air" craft debuted in 1925 and began providing aerial coverage of events across the country in 1955 ...

We haven’t seen airships in our skies since the days of the Hindenburg disaster – a German airship that caught ... thinks so and its Airlander zeppelins which use helium for lift, are supposed ...

The original design contract was for a high-speed, high-altitude airship for military use which could fly higher and faster than the wartime German Zeppelins. The contract was awarded to Short ...

represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy’s only flying aircraft carriers. Built by Goodyear-Zeppelin... What You Need to Know: Nearly a century ago, the U.S. Navy ...