However, the French had already flown in a balloon (lighter-than-air aircraft) in 1783 and built the first powered and steerable airship in 1852. In the 1890s, a German named Otto Lilienthal built ...

Before the modern jumbo jet and its first class suites, the biggest and grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin Airship. Of all the massive Zeppelin's constructed, the most ...

Postcards celebrating the night a German airship was shot down. Britain was attacked from the sky for the first time, early in 1915. No one expected air raids, so when German airships first flew ...

BEN ROBINSON:'At the beginning of September 1916, 'more than a dozen German airships headed for Britain. 'Their largest raid ever. BEN ROBINSON:'Bombs fell in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and ...