Airships were once the future, then disaster struck and their legacy faded away. But now, new materials, safer designs, and cleaner technologies are bringing them back into the spotlight. In this ...

Discover how airships could revolutionize sustainable air travel. With just one short-haul flight a year responsible for 10% of individual carbon emissions, airships offer a potential solution by ...

This ain’t no blimp. The first new dirigible in nearly a half century to bear the the iconic Goodyear logo is actually a rigid airship—a safer, more efficient, far less explodey form of air travel ...

AN AIRSHIP running solely on solar power flew over Brazil for more than 88 hours, marking a “defining step” for the ...

Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the Christmas season with this 1925 photo of Goodyear’s “Santa Claus Express” airship from the National Air and Space Museum. In the 1920s, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber ...

The U.S. Navy once dreamed of floating airships that could launch clusters of tiny fighter airplanes. Thomas Paone Tom Paone curates three collections at the National Air and Space Museum, including ...

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge. It may look like a blimp – like the kind used these days for ...