Soon, with hardly a murmur from the propellers, we were floating 300m above Lake Bodensee and looking down through the gondola windows on to history. Arguably, the skies above Friedrichshafen in ...

Nicaragua recently issued a sheetlet of 16 commemoratives recalling the flights of the Zeppelin airships, including a global journey that took less than two weeks to complete. The stamps depict ...

The around-the-world flight of the hydrogen-filled German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, was one of the biggest news stories of 1929. The craft took off from Lakehurst, N.J., on Aug. 8, 1929, heading east ...

Many were sceptical when the Zeppelin was relaunched in the 1990s, but the modern airship has found a 21st century market It may not have the grandeur or sheer scale of its pre-war predecessors that ...