Airship Times

The world's largest Zeppelin Airship sits tethered at the Port of Beaumont Monday as she is refitted with her engines and fins.  

Alexandra Hall, with Airship Adventures in Moffett Field,Calif., poses for a portrait with a model of a zeppelin airship, Friday, October 10, 2008.  

Alexandra Hall, with Airship Adventures in Moffett Field,Calif., poses for a portrait with a model of a zeppelin airship, Friday, October 10, 2008.  

The loud roar from the thrust of the engine lasted only a few seconds - just long enough to get the Goodyear blimp off the ground. Members of the ground crew pull on nose lines as the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Innovation lands Monday in Gadsden. But ...  

We first learned about Airship Ventures plans to bring airship travel back to the US after a 70 year absence back in May when they secured 8 million in funding for the project. Now it appears that their dream of filling the skies with huge, slow balloons once more will become a reality this...  

NEWARK, N.J. - Clark native Tim Lichardus hasn't had a place to call home for the last 12 years _ no apartment, no house, no timeshare. His job as a blimp crewman requires him to live out of a suitcase 11 months of the year.  

On October 20, Airship Ventures' zeppelin will arrive in Moffett Field. It's exciting news for everyone in the Bay Area, including Esther Dyson, an investor in Airship Ventures.  

Airship Ventures today announced that the largest airship in the world, the 246 foot long Airship Ventures Zeppelin has left Hamburg, Germany aboard the 530 foot long container ship "Combi Dock I" and is on its way across the Atlantic.  

A French adventurer's attempt to become the first man to cross the Channel in a pedal-powered blimp ended in failure after the wind changed.  

A French adventurer's attempt to become the first man to cross the Channel in a pedal-powered blimp ended in failure.  

You may think the grand old days of airships are long gone but with concern over aviation’s carbon emissions mounting, an initiative launched by the European Commission within the sixth European Framework Program aims to revive the concept, primarily for cargo traffic.  

Friedrichshafen (Germany), Sep 27 (DPA) The world’s biggest airship, the 75-metre-long Zeppelin NT, is on its way to the US by ship.The airship is making the journey across the Atlantic to Beaumont in Texas, its manufacturer said Saturday. Because of the rigid construction of the craft, it is...  

PORT CLINTON - A new aeronautical communications device shown off yesterday at the ARES Inc. munitions testing site at the Erie Industrial Park near here could help save lives during future terrorist attacks or natural disasters, Army officials said. Aerostat, a 75-foot-long blimp that...  

We first learned about Airship Ventures plans to bring airship travel back to the US after a 70 year absence back in May when they secured 8 million in funding for the project. Now it appears that their dream of filling the skies with huge, slow balloons once more will become a reality this...  

The French adventurer Stephane Rousson, inspired by the classic film ET, set off from Kent in his attempt to become the first person to cross the Channel in a pedal-powered airship.