CNN estimated the airship/aerostat to have a length of around 100 feet. This is far smaller than the hangar and the cradle it houses. At some 1,150 feet long and 450 feet wide, the hangar is one of ...

A historic World War II-era airship hangar in California caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Despite attempts to extinguish the flames, firefighters have been forced to abandon their ...

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge. It may look like a blimp – like the kind used these days for ...

Euro Airship, a France-based aeronautical company specializing in rigid airships, has unveiled its ambitious project, Solar Airship One, set to embark on the world's first non-stop global flight ...

PRAGUE (AP) — There's a giant airship on a roof in Prague. The huge object that resembles a giant zeppelin airship appears to have landed on the roof of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in the ...

The Hindenburg, a floating German-built palace at 805 feet in length lifted by more than 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen gas, ignited and collapsed to the ground in a billowing tower of flame on May ...

A blimp-shaped, helium-filled airship considered the world's largest aircraft flew for the first time Wednesday with a short but historic jaunt over an airfield in central England. Engines roaring, ...

It’s May 11, 1926, and a giant airship, the Norge (meaning Norway), has just been unhooked from its mast at one of the world’s most remote settlements, Ny-Ålesund, in the Svalbard archipelago. This ...

LONDON (AP) - A blimp-shaped airship billed as the world's largest aircraft flew for the first time Wednesday with a short but historic jaunt over an airfield in central England. Engines roaring, the ...