Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic ...

The wreck of the USS Shenandoah is ingrained in the identity of Noble County, where residents still preserve remnants of the ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — News media are invited to view the newest addition to Moffett Field – the first airship to fly over the U.S. for more than 70 years – on Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. This ...

In an old aircraft hangar in Suffield, Ohio , a crew of eight to 10 mechanics and manufacturers is working to assemble Goodyear's next generation of airships. Its carbon fiber and aluminum skeleton ...

Born into German nobility in 1838, Ferdinand von Zeppelin attended an engineering college and then joined the German army. During the U.S. Civil War, he was sent to Virginia to serve as an observer ...

When those words were spoken by announcer Herbert Morrison to a radio audience in 1937, it signaled the death knell for the development of blimp technology. The Hindenburg airship disaster happened on ...

An airship parked this week at the Port of Beaumont has departed for San Francisco. An initial trek, from the port to the Southeast Texas Regional Airport, is the first domestic flight of a Zeppelin ...

The Bills-Chiefs game is drawing more than just fans to Western New York. An iconic visitor was spotted from Niagara Falls to the Southtowns.

Moonlight glistens off a huge zeppelin airship as it glides over Botswana's Kalahari desert. High-tech sensors on board probe the arid sands below, looking for buried diamonds. This is De Beers' ...