Airships, or dirigible balloons, are lighter-than-air aircraft that operate from a lifting-gas that is less dense than the surrounding air, keeping them afloat. The three main types of airships are ...
Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in ...
Few modes of transportation have captured the public’s imagination like blimps and other airships. Something about these lighter-than-air aircraft evokes the past and feels futuristic simultaneously.