Explore Skyhookers by William Wolf, an illustrated history of the USS Akron, USS Macon, and the F9C Sparrowhawk fighters that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1854, the Republican Party was formally established at a meeting in New York City. In 1885, French bacteriologist Louis Pasteur inoculated a human being for ...

When the ground crew in Frankfurt released the ropes of the Hindenburg on May 3, 1937, a brass band blared martial music and young Nazis scurried alongside. An American aboard the airship, Margaret G.