THE very word airship implies a craft that will * plow the air, much as a large ship plows the sea. From the beginning, the principles of marine navigation have governed the design of dirigible ...

While it looks a lot like a blimp, Pathfinder 1 is a dirigible. It has a rigid framework, made of welded titanium hubs and carbon fiber reinforced tubes, that keeps its shape — unlike blimps ...

5 started off from the Parc d’Aérostation at Saint Cloud in the direction of the Eiffel Tower. At the controls stood the airship’s designer and sole occupant, Alberto Santos-Dumont, while the ...

In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral ... would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street. Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker.

The demolishment of the British military airship by a storm last October, and the easy loss by the French soldiers of their first national military dirigible, has strongly brought out the fact ...

Lakehurst was “the only place the Hindenburg could go” because it had a hangar where airships like the 804-foot-long ...