Here’s a radical idea: the U.S. Navy should embrace airships to supplement its battle fleets. Nearly a hundred years after the Navy tinkered with airships, a new proposal has emerged that would see ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helium-filled airships to carry passengers as soon as 2026 in $600 million deal with British Airways' sister airline A sister ...

Zeppelins, the rigid airships most famously epitomized by the Hindenburg, now seem kind of retro, rather than the image of futurity they represented in the 1930s. But they could be about to make a ...

Giant flying blimps - or airships - were all the rage in the period between the two world wars before a tragic disaster in the late-1930s involving an aircraft brought their popularity to an end. Now ...

Giant cargo airships based in outback Queensland are being pitched as a freight solution for remote Australia, but questions remain about how the project will go ahead.

November 15, 2007 JP Aerospace has developed a class of twin balloon, high altitude, low cost utility airships that will be the highest flying airships ever built. Designed for use in ...

As concern over climate change and rising temperatures grows, the airline industry is taking heat (pun intended). Flying accounts for 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions; that’s lower than ...

Passengers in Spain could soon be boarding airships instead of jets for short-haul flights. Air Nostrum, an airline owned by the same company as British Airways, ordered 10 helium airships to be used ...