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 ...

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 ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic ...

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 ...

An airship parked this week at the Port of Beaumont has departed for San Francisco. An initial trek, from the port to the Southeast Texas Regional Airport, is the first domestic flight of a Zeppelin ...

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 ...

Long before airships became novelties associated with sightseeing tours and sporting events, they were vaunted marvels of the sky. As military assets, they were used as aerial scouts in search of ...

We can finally put to rest an urban legend about the time a Zeppelin visited Tulsa, 90 years to the day after the airship came to town. The legend says the top of the 320 South Boston Building was ...

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 ...

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 ...