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 ...

The project aims to make readers experience the 1929 adventure through the testimony of one of its passengers and images of the golden age of zeppelins.View on euronews ...

When the first airships took to the sky in the mid-19th century, the odd-looking vessels created an aviation sensation. Developed as a successor to the hydrogen balloon, the airship enjoyed its golden ...

On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo Megías fulfilled his dream by embarking on the first trip around the world in the Graf Zeppelin. It was not the first time that Megías, King Alfonso XIII ...

On October 8, 1883, the Tissandier brothers flew the first electric-powered airship, pioneering electric propulsion in ...

Frederick Michael Rope was born in Shrewsbury in 1888, attending the town's school and later becoming an accomplished ...

It set off for India on 4 October 1930 from Cardington, but crashed in France the next day, killing 48 of the 55 people on board. Richard Moon, actor and co-writer, said he wanted the production to ...