The USS Macon crash brought a quick end to the U.S. Navy’s vision of “flying aircraft carriers” powered by helium gas ...

B ecoming Led Zeppelin starts as a lot of rockumentaries do – with one of the band’s most recognisable riffs (guitarist Jimmy Page ’s 1969 skull-rattler from ‘Good Times Bad Times’) blaring over a ...

Pathfinder 1, bankrolled by a Google billionaire, is an attempt to revive the airship. A century after terrifying disasters, ...

From the seventh floor of his Montreal office, Arnaud Thioulouse enjoys a view of the midtown rail tracks and freight trains ...

Opener Good Times, Bad Times, with its catchy riff and daredevil cascading solos gave way to the beautiful acoustic Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You, which itself morphed into the avant-garde, almost ...

In the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic ...

The Graf Zeppelin flew "the first regularly ... and was far faster than ocean liners that plied the route. But the crash of the airship Hindenburg in 1937 – which killed 36 people including ...

A flying ship or zeppelin—named after Paul Von Hindenburg, the military leader of Germany who ... the firm he founded because he thought it epitomised a man-made, avoidable disaster. His firm would ...

Before the start of a new golden age for airships, however, several hurdles must be cleared — not least the cultural memory of the Hindenburg disaster, which saw the commercial zeppelin burst ...

The Hindenburg was the largest flying object ever constructed by man. It was a modern marvel of luxury and technology, a ...