The giant hangars channel the early summer breeze like a box canyon. In the 1930s, they housed U.S. Navy airships like the Macon, a behemoth 785 feet long and 150 feet high. More recent tenants ...

For gamers growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, airships became a symbol that you had officially made it in the game. If you had an airship, the story was about to hit a whole new level.

The most famous airships are probably the Zeppelins of the early 20th century, and perhaps they are best known for the many accidents they endured (culminating in the Hindenburg disaster).

One project that did reach the mockup stage was the U.S. Navy’s YEZ-2A, an experimental airborne-early-warning craft. An airship’s envelope offers protection from wind, so it is a good place ...

Reviving an early 20th-century ambition, an experimental airship debuted at Moffett Field in November, albeit for only a few minutes before technicians rolled the massive aircraft back inside its ...

Postcards celebrating the night a German airship was shot down. Britain was attacked from the sky for the first time, early in 1915. No one expected air raids, so when German airships first flew ...