At 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 ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...

The Zeppelin Company, founded in 1908 by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its airships and transoceanic commercial air service. This collection consists of three copies of a ...

One hundred years after the first U.S. Navy airship took to the skies, zeppelins and blimps are poised to make a comeback Mark Piesing The USS Shenandoah leaves its hangar at the Lakehurst Naval Air ...

BERLIN -- A Zeppelin airship made the first commercial flight today since the fiery Hindenburg disaster in 1937, carrying 12 paying passengers over Lake Constance from the southern German town of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH), founded in 1908 in Germany by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its ...