The very first Zeppelin produced, dubbed the LZ-1, or Luftschiff Zeppelin 1, looked promising when it was first built in 1899, but when it flew in 1900, it went over like a proverbial lead balloon.

Why did Stephen Davis write “LZ-’75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 American Tour” (Gotham: 218 pp., $22.50)? He’s already the author of the band biography “Hammer of the ...

(Credit: airships.net) The ship – called Luftschiff Zeppelin 1, or just LZ 1 – was completed in the winter of 1899 but von Zeppelin waited for warmer weather before he filled it with hydrogen ...

But of those hundreds of flights, nothing I've flown on in the past compares to the Zeppelin LZ N07-101 I flew on Saturday. It's Goodyear's newest airship, dubbed Wingfoot One. Wingfoot One lands ...

The LZ 129 "Hindenburg" was a giant passenger airship built by the German Zeppelin Company in the 1930s. The airship made its debut flight on March 4, 1936, but just a little more than a year ...

A NEW Zeppelin airship, LZ-129, is now nearing completion in Germany (Science Service, June 6), and if satisfactory will be put into service as a sister ship to the Graf Zeppelin, now operating ...

Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik is to produce a long-range version of its Zeppelin LZ N07 navigable airship for transcontinental tours. The German manufacturer has started work on a 125m (410ft)-long ...

The image shown above likely depicts the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, an airship built in Germany in 1928. That dirigible's most famous flight occurred in 1929, when it circumnavigated the globe in 21 ...

Air-raid sirens were a thing of the future. Shortly after 11pm the first incendiary from the Zeppelin LZ 38 fell on 16 Alkham Road in Stoke Newington. It smashed through the roof and ignited the ...

Why did Stephen Davis write “LZ-’75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 American Tour” (Gotham: 218 pp., $22.50)? He’s already the author of the band biography “Hammer of the ...

What LZ-'75 offers is a rare, behind the scenes perspective, still a strong selling point since most information on the band is either well known or well guarded. Subtitled The Lost Chronicles of Led ...