"The Goodyear Blimp has really put itself where the people are," says Dan Grossman, an author and aviation historian. "Of all the people in the United States who have ever seen a blimp, mostly it's ...

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 ...

While some aerospace engineers are working on sexy, attention-getting aircraft such a supersonic airliners and Mach 3+ jet fighters, others are focused on the seemingly more mundane but more useful ...

In their time and in their brief day, they were the lords of the skies. A little more than a century ago, giant airships that resembled huge sausages, as long as a city block, moved majestically ...