In the early 20th century, the Soviet Union began purchasing airships from France, Germany and Italy. The nation wanted to propel the Soviet military with the rest of the world's superpowers and ...

During the early 20th century, the U.S. Navy experimented with massive rigid airships designed to act as flying aircraft carriers. These airships, including USS Akron and USS Macon, carried small ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Science fiction rose to prominence in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when authors like H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Mary Shelley imagined the extraordinary possibilities of ...

Long before airships became novelties associated with sightseeing tours and sporting events, they were vaunted marvels of the sky. As military assets, they were used as aerial scouts in search of ...

It was 100 years ago this week – way back in 1924, in the thick of the early roaring days of aviation history – when a giant U.S. Navy airship visited the Puget Sound and took the population by storm.

When passengers took off from Friedrichshafen, Germany on October 11, 1928 for the world’s first nonstop, transatlantic commercial flight, they didn’t embark upon the voyage from their seats on an ...

Airship Italia moored in King's bay, Spitsbergen island, Norway, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LV, No 23, June 3, 1928. The Arctic has always had an almost mystical appeal to anyone who’s ...

With airships flying over San Francisco and Helsinki in late 2025, MARK PIESLING asks if the much-vaunted airship resurgence has finally begun.