This isn't inviting bad karma, it's learning from past mistakes. Rigid airships are making a comeback, but perhaps few others are as bold as the Solar Airship One project. The airship era effectively ...

The Goodyear Blimp has nothing on this futuristic airship. The Solar Airship One is a rigid airship that promises to go beyond sci-fi fantasy to reality in the not-too-distant future by ...

The Los Angeles, pride of the Navy, only rigid airship† in the U. S., is going to have two sisters. Last week, a judging board of the Navy announced that the designs submitted by Goodyear-Zeppelin ...

See a mistake? Contact us. A company owned by Google co-founder Sergey Brin aims to build the longest U.S. aircraft since the golden age of airships nearly a century ago. LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1 ...

Longer, faster, quieter and able to maneuver like a helicopter, Goodyear’s newest generation blimp — actually a dirigible — has finished construction in Ohio and awaits deployment to its permanent ...

While it would be inaccurate to say that rigid airships have been relegated to history, few methods of transportation have ever faced such a setback based on a single incident. When LZ 129 Hindenburg ...

Los Angeles • Goodyear has let the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps, but the company's flight program will continue. About two dozen employees were on hand early Tuesday to witness ...

In their time and in their brief day, they were the lords of the skies. A little more than a century ago, giant airships that resembled huge sausages, as long as a city block, moved majestically ...