If it’s a big event, the Goodyear Blimp is there.” Though that's a full-sized statement, for nearly 100 years, the Goodyear ...

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Starting with crude hot air balloons, the 18th century saw the development of more practical dirigible airships, including hydrogen gas balloons. On 7 January 1785, French inventor, and pioneer of ...

He died in 1882 at the age of 57. Giffard built the Giffard airship (also called the Giffard dirigible) - the world's first full-sized airship or dirigible. The Giffard airship was an elongated ...

Believers in heavier-than-air flying machines the world over are at present enjoying a good laugh at the discomfiture of the French over the loss of their first government dirigible "La Patrie ...

with the dirigible floating smoothly through the clouds. The Hindenburg was the first of two "Hindenburg" Class airships constructed by the Zeppelin Company. Construction of the airship began in ...

General Nobile spoke at the Harvard Union last night on his flight to the North Pole. "The lighter than air craft will never have to compete with air planes for transportation privileges.

"There's a new airship in town," said Morning Brew, after the launch, which is backed by Google co-founder and "dirigible fanatic" Sergey Brin. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

with the dirigible floating smoothly through the clouds. The Hindenburg was the first of two "Hindenburg" Class airships constructed by the Zeppelin Company. Construction of the airship began in ...