Sergey Brin-backed airship “Pathfinder 1” conducts low-altitude test over San Francisco Bay, signalling a new chapter in ...

This week in local history, canal workers cheered, school truants roamed, airship pilots basked, haunted houses beckoned and ...

“BERKELEYANS were afforded a brief glimpse of the huge Navy dirigible Akron at noon today when the big ship circled over the southern part of the city,” the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported May 13, ...

Mechanic Paul F. Kassay, tall and blond, learned to like the new workman who had been placed alongside him in the great Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible dock at Akron, Ohio. This newcomer was of Hungarian ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The USS ZRS-4 Akron crashed on April 4, 1933 about 20 miles off the New Jersey shore near Barnegat Light when the stern crashed on the sea during ...

I just hung on … I saw the other fellows fall and it didn’t make me feel any too good, but there was nothing I could do about it — ’ceptin to hang on tighter. Navy Apprentice Seaman, C.M. Cowart, May ...

History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's plaintive cry, "Oh, the ...

Akron, Ohio – An airship aficionado’s memorabilia collection documenting the history of lighter-than-air flight is headed to northeast Ohio – the home of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the birthplace ...