Airships had been primarily a Teutonic undertaking since Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin began experimenting with the technology in the 1890s. The airships, regarded so highly during the early 20th ...

The most well known of the Zeppelin airships was named after former German President Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. Also known as the LZ129, the 803 foot-long vessel was nearly four-times the ...

But airships really took off during World War I, when rigid models developed by Germany’s Ferdinand von Zeppelin were used to bomb Paris and London. They became known as “zeppelins.” ...

The crash of the Hindenburg marked the end of the airship era and ushered in the rise of airlines like Pan Am. By 1940, the two remaining Zeppelin airships were scrapped by order of Germany's Nazi ...