Later this month, Goodyear will launch its newest airship, the 246-foot, 10-ton Wingfoot Three, out of a hangar in Akron, Ohio. It’s a big deal, and not just in the literal, ...

Airships, except when they’re used for tire company ads, seem like vestiges of the past nowadays. But Hybrid Air Vehicles wants to change that with its new Airlander aircraft, which promises to be ...

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Unveiled at a ceremonious ribbon-cutting event, Oct. 26 at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, NAWCAD and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, reveal the MZ-3A ...

In 1937, the Hindenburg crossed the Atlantic for the last time, from Frankfurt in Germany to the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. But on May 6, 1937, as the airship attempted to dock with a ...

Later this month, Goodyear will launch its newest airship, the 246-foot, 10-ton Wingfoot Three, out of a hangar in Akron, Ohio. It’s a big deal, and not just in the literal, ...

For the first time in over 80 years, one of Goodyear’s famous blimps took flight today bearing a different name. The Spirit of Goodyear, here leaving its Pompano Beach Florida hangar, bears a ...

Alaska could be the home of the world's first modern cargo airship once the aircraft rolls off Lockheed Martin's assembly line in 2019, officials said last week. The deal involves an Anchorage ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Pentagon in recent years has experimented with airships for cargo and surveillance missions. Several prototypes have flown but none have led to major acquisitions ...

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, ...