SAN DIEGO—Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s LTA Research is preparing to begin outdoor flight tests of its Pathfinder 1 large rigid airship after getting the 120-m-long (393-ft.) technology demonstrator ...

This isn't inviting bad karma, it's learning from past mistakes. Rigid airships are making a comeback, but perhaps few others are as bold as the Solar Airship One project. The airship era effectively ...

Airships are the stuff of dreams for any aviation buff. Defined as a powered aircraft that's not kept in the air by fixed or rotating wings, but by a body of gas, these things are massive, efficient ...

Few modes of transportation have captured the public’s imagination like blimps and other airships. Something about these lighter-than-air aircraft evokes the past and feels futuristic simultaneously.