Monday, January 7, 2013 - 2:00pm
Reality is mirroring fiction as a new project being developed in conjunction with the Pentagon is looking to bring airships back from their spotty past and into the future.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 1:13pm
This is Jack Clemens. That up there? Why, that's Jack Clemens' pet airship, and it took him over two and a half years to build it. (He would have been done sooner, but his cat jumped on the first model.)
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 10:59am
It seems like airships are the new hot vehicles for the U.S. military. Amazingly efficient, they're able to stay in the air at lower altitudes for longer than any traditional plane, making them perfect for specialized missions that require long periods of aerial observation.
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 2:14pm
The US Army just awarded a contract to Northrup Grumman to build its new LEMV surveillance ship, a massive airship set to hit the skies of Afghanistan next year.
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 5:33am
The world's largest inflatable airship, measuring 234 feet long and 65 feet in diameter, was just inflated for the first time inside the Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, AL. The monstrous vehicle, dubbed the Bullet 580, took a full six hours to be completely filled up.
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 3:44am
When we first heard about Airship Ventures, a company that's resurrected the Zeppelin for air tours of San Francisco and other locations, we said: Sign us up! Well, the company took us seriously, giving us a free ride on one...
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 7:07am
We're back from a week of non-stop gadget craziness with this purty flight of fancy: the Aeolus airship by designer Christopher Ottersbach. It's billed by the artist as an entirely eco-friendly way to fly, which, really, is one of...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 6:45am
The last time airships symbolized chic travel was about 10 seconds before the Hindenburg blew up in 1937. But Airship Ventures' new airship cruises in the San Francisco Bay Area want to bring retro-cool to new heights — around...
