THE very word airship implies a craft that will * plow the air, much as a large ship plows the sea. From the beginning, the principles of marine navigation have governed the design of dirigible ...

He died in 1882 at the age of 57. Giffard built the Giffard airship (also called the Giffard dirigible) - the world's first ...

RATHERa striking contrast is offered by the pitiful wrecking of the first non-German rigid dirigible, the British naval airship “Mayfly” which broke in two before it even got into the air ...

with the dirigible floating smoothly through the clouds. The Hindenburg was the first of two "Hindenburg" Class airships constructed by the Zeppelin Company. Construction of the airship began in ...

Britain's innovative Airlander 10 airship could soon take to the skies ... air by engine propellers powered by conventional fuel.The dirigible is "unlike any other aircraft cabin you've sat ...

built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche’s Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new “tunnel ship” (with ...

"There's a new airship in town," said Morning Brew, after the launch, which is backed by Google co-founder and "dirigible fanatic" Sergey Brin. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

Portland basketball fans got a free, very safe recreation of the Hindenburg disaster when a Ford airship crashed into the stands during a game between the Trail Blazers and Indiana Pacers.