Here’s a radical idea: the U.S. Navy should embrace airships to supplement its battle fleets. Nearly a hundred years after the Navy tinkered with airships, a new proposal has emerged that would see ...

Zeppelins, the rigid airships most famously epitomized by the Hindenburg, now seem kind of retro, rather than the image of futurity they represented in the 1930s. But they could be about to make a ...

The U.S. Navy built enormous rigid airships designed to patrol vast stretches of ocean and even launch aircraft in flight.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helium-filled airships to carry passengers as soon as 2026 in $600 million deal with British Airways' sister airline A sister ...

Before airplanes and rockets, but right after manned balloons, there were airships—basically, balloons with rudders and a means of propulsion. Some were blimps, their shape maintained entirely by the ...

November 15, 2007 JP Aerospace has developed a class of twin balloon, high altitude, low cost utility airships that will be the highest flying airships ever built. Designed for use in ...

Sometimes the edge of space can almost be as good as space itself --- that is, when it comes to telescopes riding airships at the top of Earth’s tenuous and rarefied stratosphere. High Altitude ...