On May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg burst into flames while attempting to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey. In ...

The Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, marked the violent end of the age of luxury airship travel, largely due to its highly flammable hydrogen (a substitute for helium denied by the U.S. over Nazi ...

We haven’t seen airships in our skies since the days of the Hindenburg disaster – a German airship that caught fire in the skies over New Jersey. But has airship technology matured? Bedford, UK-based ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...

The Pike County Historical Society and Museum will offer a unique program which will tell of the history of the fatal flight of the German Airship Hindenburg ...

In their time and in their brief day, they were the lords of the skies. A little more than a century ago, giant airships that resembled huge sausages, as long as a city block, moved majestically ...

Kelluu, a Finnish company just 50 miles from the Russian border, is building small airships for arctic warfare.

What You Need to Know: The Akron-class airships, Akron and Macon, represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy’s only flying aircraft carriers. Built by Goodyear-Zeppelin in ...