Technically, the airship is all a load of hot air: a typically cigar-shaped, self-propelled aircraft made of a vast balloon filled with nearly weightless lifting gases, featuring an attached car ...

88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans ...

88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans ...

That time a UFO maybe exploded over Michigan in 1897 ... The Phantom Airship. From November 1896 to May 1897, thousands of people claimed to have seen strange lights they believed were airships.

Celebrate 100 years of the Goodyear Blimp with an exclusive behind-the-scenes flight. In 1925, the first Goodyear Blimp, Pilgrim, took to the skies, earning recognition from the Smithsonian as a ...

The blimp is more than just clever advertising, he said. Even at 100 years old, he sees the Goodyear Blimp as a symbol of how far curiosity, and a little bit of helium, can take you.

Just after two in the morning, it crashed into a wood north of Paris and exploded. The impact detonated the 5.5 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen in the airship’s 15 gasbags.

We head up into the skies over Los Angeles in honor of the Goodyear Blimp's 100th. ... it suddenly exploded into a fireball. National Air and Space Museum curator emeritus, Tom Crouch, ...

But for those lucky few who go aboard a blimp, Basaran said it offers an entirely new perspective. “We can be up over Akron with somebody who's lived here 50, 60 years. And they've never seen it from ...

88 years ago today, it rained fire from the sky over the Shore. As the largest airship ever built, the LZ-129 − better known as the Hindenburg − tried to dock in Lakehurst after a trans ...

Amid talk of sustainable aviation fuel and electric flights, there's another form of air travel currently being mooted as a green alternative to flying: the airship.