This isn't inviting bad karma, it's learning from past mistakes. Rigid airships are making a comeback, but perhaps few others are as bold as the Solar Airship One project. The airship era effectively ...

One hundred years after the first U.S. Navy airship took to the skies, zeppelins and blimps are poised to make a comeback Mark Piesing The USS Shenandoah leaves its hangar at the Lakehurst Naval Air ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship Shenandoah ZR-1 — translated to "daughter of the stars" — crashed in three sections over Noble ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Goodyear Blimp has nothing on this futuristic airship. The Solar Airship One is a rigid airship that promises to go beyond sci ...

Pathfinder 1, bankrolled by a Google billionaire, is an attempt to revive the airship. A century after terrifying disasters, is it a safe-enough bet? On 24 October 2024, a brief post was shared on the ...

Composites enable next-generation rigid airship design. LTA Research’s Pathfinder 1, its first full-scale, electric-powered prototype airship, is shown here during construction in Mountain View, Calif ...

While the concept of rigid airships and the basic airframe design are a throwback to pre-Hindenburg times of the early 1900s, Pathfinder 1 uses a frame made from 3,000 welded titanium hubs, joined by ...

THE airship in aeronautical text-book literature has received but scant attention in the past. Aeroplane and seaplane design and the theoretical problems associated with them compose the subject ...

The Los Angeles, pride of the Navy, only rigid airship† in the U. S., is going to have two sisters. Last week, a judging board of the Navy announced that the designs submitted by Goodyear-Zeppelin ...