The USS Macon crash brought a quick end to the U.S. Navy’s vision of “flying aircraft carriers” powered by helium gas ...

Summary and Top 4 Points: The Graf Zeppelin, Germany's first aircraft carrier, was laid down in 1936 but never entered service due to internal disputes, skepticism, and war priorities.

Goodyear's fleet of three blimps is based out of Akron, Ohio; Carson, Calif.; and Pompano Beach, Fla.; and the company will gradually update it with the new airships. The first zeppelin is being ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most ...

What You Need to Know: The Akron-class airships, Akron and Macon, represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy’s only flying aircraft carriers. Built by Goodyear ...

Documentary Film which uses the letters and diaries of passenger Lady Grace DrummondHay and archival footage to document the Graf Zeppelin airships circumnavigation of the globe in 1929 In 1928 ...

Rightly so, the smoking room was separated from the rest of the Zeppelin by an airlock and the room was kept at a positive air pressure so no hydrogen could leak in. In addition, no open flames ...