It's a sparkling afternoon and the Goodyear Blimp is cruising above the southern shoreline of Los Angeles, a few miles from its base in the suburb of Carson, Calif. The airship's slender gondola, ...

In an old aircraft hangar in Suffield, Ohio , a crew of eight to 10 mechanics and manufacturers is working to assemble Goodyear's next generation of airships. Its carbon fiber and aluminum skeleton ...

The Goodyear Blimp is up there with the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile (now Frankmobile) as the best-known promotional vehicles in America. Sure, they’re just moving billboards, but they’re also just ...

It's a sparkling afternoon and the Goodyear Blimp is cruising above the southern shoreline of Los Angeles, a few miles from its base in the suburb of Carson, Calif. The airship's slender gondola, ...

Have you ever seen a Zeppelin? Not the band, but the airship? And not just any airship, but a real Zeppelin? One of only two operating Zeppelins in the world, the Farmers Airship, will be basing ...

The Zeppelin Company, founded in 1908 by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was a pioneer company renowned for its airships and transoceanic commercial air service. This collection consists of three copies of a ...

BERLIN -- A Zeppelin airship made the first commercial flight today since the fiery Hindenburg disaster in 1937, carrying 12 paying passengers over Lake Constance from the southern German town of ...

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