The Hindenburg remains one of aviation's most recognizable names, but it's story extends far beyond it's final moments. A new exhibition in Dallas invites visitors to rediscover the remarkable ...

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 U.S. Navy once dreamed of floating airships that could launch clusters of tiny fighter airplanes. Thomas Paone Tom Paone curates three collections at the National Air and Space Museum, including ...

On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” USS Macon (ZRS-5) was lost in a storm of the California coast. Having once ...

The USS Akron flies off the Panama Canal Zone on March 15, 1933, with the airship's training plane suspending in her hangar opening. (U.S. Army Air Corps photo from the collections of the Naval ...

Flights of fancy -- The early attempts -- Going the distance -- His Majesty's Airship R34 -- Transatlantic airliners -- Disaster over the Humber -- The Amerikaschiff -- Zeppelin fever -- Linking the ...

The Zeppelin Museum offers a clear view of how airships actually operated, beyond their often romanticized image. Located in Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Constance, it occupies a former ...

It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the past four days ...

What might it be like to watch an alien spacecraft fall from the sky? Residents of Ava, Ohio, in 1925 experienced something close to this, when the USS Shenandoah, a naval airship, crashed down on ...