No one expected air raids, so when German airships first flew over Britain, people weren't ready. As the war went on, whistles would sound the alarm and people learnt to run for cover in London ...

The German airships, along with smaller ... the loss of USS Akron represents the greatest loss of life in airship history. On April 21, 1933, just two weeks after the Akron tragedy, the USS ...

Named after Count, or in German Graf Ferdinand fone Zeppelin, the inventor of airships bearing his name in the honor, this ship was to be the first German aircraft carrier of the WW2 and Hitler ...

BEN ROBINSON:'At the beginning of September 1916, 'more than a dozen German airships headed for Britain ... This clip will be relevant for teaching History at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England Wales ...

Early on, the German Zeppelins racked up an impressive ... Weston’s enthusiasm for his new project grew as he studied the history of airships. The Hindenburg disaster of 1937 might have been ...

Courtesy Cargolifter German Entrepreneur Carl von Gablenz had an unusual vision: a fleet of giant helium airships that would haul outsize industrial loads, such as oil rigs or wind turbine blades ...

Yet despite popular media having declared rigid airships such as the German Zeppelins to be dead and a figment of a historic fevered imagination, new rigid airships are being constructed today ...