In the March 1912 issue of Popular Mechanics, during the height of airship "balloonacy," one of the world's first aeronautical engineers Victor Lougheed wrote an article arguing that lighter-than-air ...

MINEOLA, L.I. -- To William Ballantyne, 22 years old, belongs the distinction of being the first aerial stowaway to cross the Atlantic. Ballantyne was originally a member of the R-34's crew. Just ...

The first time Don McDonald went to Grand Central airport was in 1929. He and his father watched the launch of the metal dirigible built by Thomas B. Slate, a local inventor who had developed ...

The dirigible airship, the oddball aircraft of another era, is making a comeback. California-based Aeros Corporation has created a prototype of its new breed of variable buoyancy aircraft and expects ...

According to Airships.com: A dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is both powered and steerable (as opposed to free floating, like a balloon). Blimps like the Goodyear blimp, rigid airships ...

My Alerts is a service for subscribers. Please login or subscribe in order to use My Alerts. Aerospace company H2 Clipper says it has been granted a patent for an improved structural and delivery ...

Of course, there's a large elephant in the room here, or at least a huge manatee: hydrogen, along with any other flammable substance, is currently prohibited as a lift gas in the United States, due to ...