THE very word airship implies a craft that will * plow the air, much as a large ship plows the sea. From the beginning, the principles of marine navigation have governed the design of dirigible ...

The terms "airship" and "dirigible" are interchangeable and refer to any lighter-than-air craft that is powered and steerable (as opposed to free-floating balloons). The word, "dirigible" comes ...

The Hindenburg was designed to ferry passengers across the Atlantic in serenity, with the dirigible floating smoothly ... Hydrogen is much lighter than air, and allows the massive Zeppelin to ...

Almost double the size of a Goodyear blimp, the floating aircraft is a modern take on an old concept to revolutionize the skies with “lighter-than-air” ships. LTA, an aerospace research and ...

This is the first in a series. As January 1925 ended, the giant hangar at Lakehurst, N.J. housed two of the world’s most modern dirigibles. Each was over two football fields long. The USS Shenandoah ...