Floating through the air 200 feet above the ground, I glide past a cluster of buildings, a stand of trees, the shoreline of a shimmering bay. A golf driving range drifts into view. Four men stop ...

Airship Paris’s zeppelin – 75 meters long, five stories high and as wide as a four-lane motorway – made its inaugural commercial flight over a region of villages and woodland northwest of ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, March 29.-The Zeppelin airship made a successful flight to-day to a height of 6,000 feet. The greatest altitude yet reached. The landing also was successful.

The modern Zeppelin NT, such as the one currently carrying the Farmers Insurance logo, is a semi-rigid airship rather than a blimp. Source: Airships.net Share this: ...

Before the airliner, the ultimate in luxury flying was the Hindenburg Zeppelin Airship. ... Also known as the LZ129, the 803-foot-long vessel was nearly four times the length of a Boeing 747.

ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP ASCENDS.; Rebuilt Dirigible, with 10 Passengers, Remains Up for 3 1/2 Hours. Share full article. Oct. 24, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

After years of planning and construction, Goodyear’s fleet of high-technology Zeppelin airships is complete. Aviation pioneer Shaesta Waiz smashed a bottle of bubbly across the bow of Wingfoot ...

A century ago, zeppelin passengers soared across the Atlantic Ocean in luxurious gondolas hanging from humongous hydrogen-filled balloons — the biggest aircraft humanity has ever built. Then, in ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — Imagine a slow, scenic glide through the skies in an aircraft that burns little fuel, pollutes hardly at all, affords a good view for all on board and makes no both… ...

Airship Paris’s zeppelin – 75 meters long, five stories high and as wide as a four-lane motorway – made its inaugural commercial flight over a region of villages and woodland northwest of ...

The sights of Paris are among the most familiar on the planet, but now tourists have a “new” way to see them – by helium-filled airship. Airship Paris’s zeppelin – 75 meters long, five ...