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 ...

Airships are the stuff of dreams for any aviation buff. Defined as a powered aircraft that's not kept in the air by fixed or rotating wings, but by a body of gas, these things are massive, efficient ...

Rigid airships had a short and perilous career in the Navy. From 1921 to 1935, five lighter-than-air giants sailed the skies and then suffered catastrophic structural failures or were scrapped. Yet in ...