The Goodyear Blimp has nothing on this futuristic airship. The Solar Airship One is a rigid airship that promises to go beyond sci-fi fantasy to reality in the not-too-distant future by ...

Rigid airships had a short and perilous career in the Navy. From 1921 to 1935, five lighter-than-air giants sailed the skies and then suffered catastrophic structural failures or were scrapped. Yet in ...

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in ...

The Goodyear Blimp is a corporate icon, one that's instantly recognizable. In addition to its long history and incredible size, the blimp also seems to have a sense of humor. A September 2019 Twitter ...

AMONG the important papers read last week at the Institution of Naval Architects was one on airship construction by Mr. C. I. R. Campbell, who has been responsible at the Admiralty for the design of ...

The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a victory lap over the skies of an Ohio city this week. The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Pilgrim,” its first blimp to take ...

A once-in-a-lifetime ride on the Goodyear Blimp is up for auction to support an Ohio nonprofit. The airship, which took its first flight 100 years ago, has been a regular at major sporting events ...

In their time and in their brief day, they were the lords of the skies. A little more than a century ago, giant airships that resembled huge sausages, as long as a city block, moved majestically ...