It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the past four days ...

The powered balloon -- Count Zeppelin and the invention of the rigid airship -- The Zeppelin as a nationalistic symbol -- The Zeppelin as a war-winning weapon -- The imitators: British military rigids ...

The Los Angeles, pride of the Navy, only rigid airship† in the U. S., is going to have two sisters. Last week, a judging board of the Navy announced that the designs submitted by Goodyear-Zeppelin ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...

Zeppelins are a relic now, and most people's interactions with airships of any kind consist of seeing the Goodyear Blimp at sporting events or as references in pop culture. After the Hindenburg ...