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 ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — News media are invited to view the newest addition to Moffett Field – the first airship to fly over the U.S. for more than 70 years – on Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. This ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH), founded in 1908 in Germany by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its ...

A century ago, zeppelin passengers soared across the Atlantic Ocean in luxurious gondolas hanging from humongous hydrogen-filled balloons — the biggest aircraft humanity has ever built. Then, in 1937, ...

On an early Sunday morning in 1933, Trinidad looked up and saw a giant: the dirigible airship Graf Zeppelin gliding across the island on a transatlantic journey. Crowds gathered from Mayaro to Port of ...

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, and figured out the ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...