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 ...

The Goodyear blimp may have been flying around for almost 90 years, but it still manages to turn heads. On Friday, there was another reason to look beyond nostalgia for the days of the great airships ...

Sergey Brin's company, LTA Research, is developing "Pathfinder" electric airships, aiming to build the longest U.S. aircraft since the 1930s. The Pathfinder airships, including 400-foot Pathfinder 1 ...

Goodyear's new airship takes advantage of clear skies and calm conditions on its maiden voyage near Akron. The company announced the name for the new semi-rigid dirigible on Monday. (Karen Schiely, ...

Fellow columnist Shad Powers knows me all too well. Knows that I like quirky, strange, weird, off-the-grid stories or anything to do with animals or flying machines. I'm fascinated by anything that ...

AKRON, Ohio -- Films documenting the history of the USS Akron, a helium-filled U.S. Navy rigid airship that crashed in 1933, killing 76, will be preserved by the University of Akron. The university's ...

Los Angeles • Goodyear has let the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps, but the company's flight program will continue. About two dozen employees were on hand early Tuesday to witness ...