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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...