Rigid airships, as the name implies ... we’ve been flying with any regularity,” Buerge says. Early on, the German Zeppelins racked up an impressive record for safety and capability.

Yet despite popular media having declared rigid airships such as the German Zeppelins to be dead and a figment of a historic fevered imagination, new rigid airships are being constructed today ...

Pioneered from 1900 by the Zeppelin Company, German military airships ... housing the experimental hydrogen-filled airships R-31 and R-32 (R standing for ‘Rigid’). In 1917 an attractive ...

Rigid airships are often called zeppelins, although technically that refers specifically to airships designed and built by the German company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Perhaps the most famous of ...

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 ...

Designed by Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, the rigid airships were marvels ... but it hoped to shore up its naval power with airships. In 1908, German privy councillor Rudolph Martin bragged ...

OK, we made that part up, but it would be awesome, no? The current New Technology (NT) semi-rigid airship platform was designed by Zeppelin and offers improved maneuverability and speed ...

Calm weather made it easier for Zeppelin crews to hit their targets. German airships were called Zeppelins. Large bags filled with hydrogen gas enabled them to float. The crew controlled the ...

BEN ROBINSON:'By the end of the month, 'Germany's leading zeppelin captain, Heinrich Mathy, had also been killed, 'and four German airships had been reduced to scrap. BEN ROBINSON:'It was the ...

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 ...