Rigid airships, as the name implies ... we’ve been flying with any regularity,” Buerge says. Early on, the German Zeppelins racked up an impressive record for safety and capability.

Yet despite popular media having declared rigid airships such as the German Zeppelins to be dead and a figment of a historic fevered imagination, new rigid airships are being constructed today ...

Rigid airships are often called zeppelins, although technically that refers specifically to airships designed and built by the German company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Perhaps the most famous of ...

One failed attempt to resuscitate the airship content came from the German company Cargolifter ... Aeros plans to begin testing a non-rigid airship, the Aeros 40D, in 2008 to demonstrate the ...

non-rigids, semi-rigids, and rigids. Particulars of three non-rigid airships are given in the paper, having gross lifts of 4690 lb., 14,100 lb., and n tons respectively; the disposable lifts when ...

Designed by Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, the rigid airships were marvels ... but it hoped to shore up its naval power with airships. In 1908, German privy councillor Rudolph Martin bragged ...

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 ...