The R-100 was scrapped. The Akron and Macon plopped into the sea. Of the large rigid airships built since the War only those of Germany have been successful—the Los Angeles, now in retirement at ...

The enterprises claim that rigid airships will herald an era of sustainable luxury air travel despite only having a top speed of 80 miles per hour. British start-up Hybrid Air Vehicles is the ...

Rigid airships, also called zeppelins ... of time outweighed the need for speed and maneuverability. And, in the modern era, blimps were used for “advertising, freight transportation, tourism ...

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 ...

“The Pathfinder 1 proof of concept aircraft combines the best historical design, modern materials, and new, patented engineering and manufacturing techniques to create a next-generation airship ...

From January of 1915 through July of 1917, Germany conducted numerous air raids on British cities using rigid airships – Zeppelins. This was hazardous duty, for Zeppelins full of hydrogen were liable ...

They experimented with internal-combustion engines, electric motors and rigid hulls made of aluminum. But airships really took off during World War I, when rigid models developed by Germany’s ...