Here’s a radical idea: the U.S. Navy should embrace airships to supplement its battle fleets. Nearly a hundred years after the Navy tinkered with airships, a new proposal has emerged that would see ...

Airships, which are best known today for their use as advertising blimps, have long been recognized for their potential as large, low-emissions transportation vessels that can haul huge amounts of ...

A picture from nuclear tests, codenamed Stokes, involving airships in 1957 during Operation Plumbbob.National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office In 1957, the US military tested whether ...

Airships offer a unique mode of transport, bridging the gap between planes and freighters. This video explores the potential ...

Zeppelins, the rigid airships most famously epitomized by the Hindenburg, now seem kind of retro, rather than the image of futurity they represented in the 1930s. But they could be about to make a ...

Airships, which for centuries have reflected the inventive spirit of visionaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Jules Verne, are currently experiencing a renaissance. Though they’ll never compete with ...

You can see Hanger One from Highway 101 as you come to the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. It dwarfs NASA’s Moffett Field, and the closer you get, the more massive it appears. The giant domed ...

Anyone who travels through Lehigh County is familiar with traffic congestion, particularly on Interstate 78, Route 22 and other major thoroughfares. Most of us have experienced the daily frustrations ...

The Army and U.S. Transportation Command are interested in developing modern versions of the craft for combat and humanitarian missions. Development of a logistics airship -- an aerial vehicle that ...

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 ...

As concern over climate change and rising temperatures grows, the airline industry is taking heat (pun intended). Flying accounts for 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions; that’s lower than ...