This fall, if our San Francisco Bay Area readers spot a zeppelin overhead, don’t worry — you haven’t been caught in a time warp. It will just mean that a startup called Airship Ventures has succeeded ...

When passengers took off from Friedrichshafen, Germany on October 11, 1928 for the world’s first nonstop, transatlantic commercial flight, they didn’t embark upon the voyage from their seats on an ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...

After years of planning and construction, Goodyear’s fleet of high-technology Zeppelin airships is complete. Aviation pioneer Shaesta Waiz smashed a bottle of bubbly across the bow of Wingfoot Three ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH), founded in 1908 in Germany by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its ...

The Zeppelin Company, founded in 1908 by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its airships and transoceanic commercial air service. This collection consists of three copies of a ...

The sprawling Hannover convention center grounds as seen from the Zeppelin. Photo: Jack Roberts Zeppelins differ from blimps in that they have a rigid internal structure to provide strength to the ...

One hundred years after the first U.S. Navy airship took to the skies, zeppelins and blimps are poised to make a comeback Mark Piesing The USS Shenandoah leaves its hangar at the Lakehurst Naval Air ...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin loves airships. He loves them so much that his 2012 debut for Google Glass (RIP) involved a skydiving stunt where a team of jumpers leaped out of a zeppelin floating over ...