Postcards celebrating the night a German airship was shot down. Britain was attacked from the sky for the first time, early in 1915. No one expected air raids, so when German airships first flew ...

Yet despite popular media having declared rigid airships such as the German Zeppelins to be dead and a figment of a historic fevered imagination, new rigid airships are being constructed today ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most ...

During the First World War, the German Army and Navy both used huge airships popularly referred to as Zeppelins for the aristocratic engineer Graf (Count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin. While the ...

The giant silver German zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg made its first flight on March 4, 1936. The hydrogen-filled airship ...