If you’re looking for an intriguing aerial project, [DilshoD] has you covered with his unique twist on modular airships. The project, which you can explore in detail here, revolves around a modular ...

This artist's conception of a high-altitude airship is one of many possible models that could come from an airship design challenge. One of NASA's new citizen science endeavors could involve high-tech ...

NASA has submitted a request for information in order to gauge the interest of industry, academia, innovators and enthusiasts regarding a potential airship design challenge. The agency hopes that the ...

Long before the first airplanes took to the skies, humans had already overcome gravity with the help of airships. Starting with crude hot air balloons, the 18th century saw the development of more ...

THE problem of the airship falls naturally into three parts, concerned with flotation, propulsion and steering respectively. The best results in any of these three branches are to a great extent ...

A third airship programme is trailing a few months behind, with at least two more to enter flight testing within two years. The resurgence of the buoyant aircraft type has been sudden, and the range ...

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in ...

They're not going to replace the 747, but it looks like the airships may be making a comeback. On its website, American Blimp Corp. explains how airships work. Non-rigid airships, known as blimps, ...

Frederick Michael Rope was an engineer by trade [Airship Heritage Trust] Frederick Michael Rope was born in Shrewsbury in 1888, attending the town's school and later becoming an accomplished engineer.