In a few months, according to the plans of the National Aerial League, an express service of dirigible balloons will be inaugurated from Paris in four directions. The league's airships ...

The bigger the dirigible airship can be made ... balloons known in Germany as “kite balloons” are built on this plan and have weathered hurricanes that tore them from their cables but were ...

At the controls stood the airship’s designer and sole occupant ... As early as 1909, Amundsen had been making plans to reach the North Pole by airplane, but intervening events prevented this; until, ...

In California, the West Coast Airship ... dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street. Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker. vice-president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., said that the plan ...

He died in 1882 at the age of 57. Giffard built the Giffard airship (also called the Giffard dirigible) - the world's first ...

Britain's innovative Airlander 10 airship could soon take to the skies ... UK company Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) says its plans are well underway for greener but slower commercial air travel.The ...

RATHERa striking contrast is offered by the pitiful wrecking of the first non-German rigid dirigible, the British naval airship “Mayfly” which broke in two before it even got into the air ...

While it looks a lot like a blimp, Pathfinder 1 is a dirigible. It has a rigid framework ... While tight-lipped on the timeline, LTA plans to roll out more outdoor testing, including low-altitude ...

While at rest on its shoring, the Graf will be minutely inspected by dirigible experts, to estimate an airship’s lifetime. The Grafs record for 1930: 155 flights covering 144,275 mi. Passengers ...