Airship Times

BBC TV show focuses on Barrow's airship disasterNW Evening MailA BBC programme is set to shed light on Barrow's role in one of the most remarkable – and disastrous – periods in British aviation history. Coast, which airs tomorrow on BBC Two at 9pm, will detail the story behind Vickers' failed attempt in 1911 to ...  

Blimps had their heyday between World War I and World War II, and since then, they’ve more or less been left behind by the airplane. Some things, though, blimps are just plain better at, and the Army is getting ready for the first flight of their “Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle,” aka “spy blimp.” View full [...]  

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/vz2pmx/airship_technology) has announced the addition of the "Airship Technology. Edition No. 2" report to their offering. This comprehensive guide (second edition) to modern airship design and operation, written by world experts, is the only up-to-date book on airship technology intended as a technical guide to those interested in studying, designing...  

BETHALTO, Ill. -- He was known as George Blackburn for most of his life, but after his divorce last fall he wanted to start life over. So Blackburn changed his name to Led Zeppelin II.Zeppelins daughter, Mindy Baker, says he saw the iconic British rock ban...  

A new promotional video was released showing off a quick match from the upcoming crowd-sourced, MMO, Guns of Icarus Online. The game features teams of four manning a gun-ship and taking on various quests in a massive post-apocalyptic, steam-punk world.  

BLIMPS will be flown at two proposed wind turbine sites. Rutland MP Alan Duncan has been contacted by REG Windpower which has said its decision to not put up the blimps in Ketton has been reversed. Mr Duncan had written to the company to ask that the ...  

Jake Von Slatt tells Boing Boing, "I got an email this morning from Flaminio Bovino, a young Italian designer who though I might like this amazing blimp lamp he made. He was correct!"  

Upstart Virginia aerospace firm Mav6 is offering to install guided missiles on the massive, robotic spy blimp it's building for the Air Force. The idea would only be slightly terrifying, if the massive airship was headed to Afghanistan, as originally planned. But Mav6 and its CEO, a respected retired Air Force general, are also promoting the giant airship for homeland security missions over U.S. soil. In that way, today's war blimp could...  

Arguably the finest British film made during the second world war, Powell and Pressburger's 1943 epic traces the career of General Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), a bluff, middle-class British soldier from the Boer war, where he won a VC, up to 1943 when clearly a less gentlemanly form of military behaviour was needed to defeat the Nazis. They were inspired by David Low's celebrated military fogey, Colonel Blimp, but they turn the cartoonist's...  

It can't go faster than 34MPH and it's already a year late for its planned deployment in Afghanistan, but Northrop Grumman's Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) is now set for its maiden flight. The test run is scheduled for sometime between June 6th and 10th over Lakehurst, New Jersey, whose residents ought to be forewarned that it is not a solar eclipse or a Death Star, but simply a helium-filled pilotless reconnaissance and...  

FORT BENNING, Ga., May 21 (UPI) -- For military bases too small to keep blimp-like aerostats, the U.S. Army is testing "Helikites," a half-kite, half-blimp aircraft for low-level surveillance. An aircraft that combines the properties of a blimp ...  

Lecture By Kenneth Deacon: 'Airships Over The Humber' Running in conjunction with its similar-themed exhibition, Sewerby Hall and Gardens will be hosting the second of its lectures offering extra insight into Barnes Wallis on Friday, 25 May at 2pm in the ...  

Disney takes off on blimpafaqs (press release)By Jhumur Nandi, afaqs!, New Delhi, May 22, 2012 Disney Channel kicked off a 10-day outdoor campaign in which it has created a replica of an original Disney branded aircraft in the form of a blimp placed over two hoardings measuring 40X40 feet and ...  

The 75th anniversary of the May 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster will be marked with a dinner gathering of airship enthusiasts and historians, followed on May 6 with the annual memorial service at the crash site in Lakehurst.  

OAKLAND--Last week marked the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, and the end of the golden era of zeppelin passenger travel. But anyone who lives in or around the San Francisco Bay Area is no doubt aware that these days, zeppelin ...