THE very word airship implies a craft that will * plow the air, much as a large ship plows the sea. From the beginning, the principles of marine navigation have governed the design of dirigible ...

While it looks a lot like a blimp, Pathfinder 1 is a dirigible. It has a rigid framework, made of welded titanium hubs and carbon fiber reinforced tubes, that keeps its shape — unlike blimps ...

He died in 1882 at the age of 57. Giffard built the Giffard airship (also called the Giffard dirigible) - the world's first full-sized airship or dirigible. The Giffard airship was an elongated ...

In the early hours of May 12, 1926, the navigator of the Norge cried “Here we are!” The airship had reached the North Pole.

The demolishment of the British military airship by a storm last October, and the easy loss by the French soldiers of their first national military dirigible, has strongly brought out the fact ...

This is the first in a series. As January 1925 ended, the giant hangar at Lakehurst, N.J. housed two of the world’s most modern dirigibles. Each was over two football fields long. The USS Shenandoah ...

In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral ... would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street. Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker.

with the dirigible floating smoothly through the clouds. The Hindenburg was the first of two "Hindenburg" Class airships constructed by the Zeppelin Company. Construction of the airship began in ...

Portland basketball fans got a free, very safe recreation of the Hindenburg disaster when a Ford airship crashed into the stands during a game between the Trail Blazers and Indiana Pacers.