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IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Ron Hochstetler |
Airships for the 21st Century Long-duration, heavy-lift designs breathe new life into the world's oldest aircraft technology   |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
Jeff Wise |
Just Don't Call it a Blimp It might look like something out of a Jules Verne novel, but this prototype of a hybrid airship could hold the key to tomorrow's long-distance, low-cost air transport. |
Aviation History
Timothy J. Kutta |
Britain's Bold Strike From the Sea On Christmas Day 1914, an audacious British air attack on a Zeppelin base in northern Germany caught the Germans with their defenses down. |
Scientific American
March 21, 2005
Steven Ashley |
Aerial Base Station Trying again: stratospheric airships for wireless communications. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Jeff Wise |
Are Backyard Hot-Air Blimps the Future of Low-and-Slow Aviation? Its builders hope to one day sell Skyachts as recreational aircraft, but other blimp enthusiasts are not convinced a market exists. |
National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Military Seeing Different Applications, Wider Use of Aerostats and Airships Aerostats and airships are old ideas that are in vogue again in military and homeland security applications. |
Inc.
March 1, 2003
Eamon Javers |
Case Study: Spy in the Sky Having leased blimps to clients like Fuji Film, a company considers a whole new market: homeland security. |
Aviation History
November 2006
Wilbur Cross |
USS Shenandoah's Last Flight On September 3, 1925, captain and crew struggled valiantly to keep the giant dirigible on course and airborne in a violent Midwestern storm. |
Science News
March 29, 2008 |
Timeline: From the March 26, 1938, issue World fairs planned to show the sciences in action... Helium, sun element, soon to hold airship aloft again... 800 mile-an-hour insect debunked by science... |
Popular Mechanics
February 2008
Erik Sofge |
4 New 'Blimp' Designs Bring Return of the Airship The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency recently announced funding for an innovative, ballast-free airship technology. |
Science News
August 18, 2001 |
TimeLine: August 15, 1931 Another temple to the wind god... New blood test may decide doubtful parentage cases... World's largest airship being prepared for flights... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004 |
U.S. looks to unmanned blimps to improve missile defense Under management of the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. government is resurrecting the blimp, which last saw service with the Navy in 1962. Experts will test the High Altitude Airship (HAA) as an unmanned platform for a wide range of sensors for communications, weather/environmental monitoring, short- and long-range missile warning, surveillance, and target acquisition. |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2009
Christopher DeMorro |
Solar-Powered Airship: Project Sol'R Flies on Rays and Hydrogen French engineering and tech students have created a 2.4-kilowatt, solar-powered airship. While they have proven that this one-man dirigible floats, they have yet to take it for a test run. |
Science News
September 4, 2004 |
From the September 1, 1934, Issue New German Airship Nearing Completion... Rhinoceros-Size Pigs Roamed Western Plains... Dogs Recognize Words by Their Sound Alone... |
Scientific American
June 2009
Daniel C. Schlenoff |
100 Years Ago: The Flight of the Zeppelin II 1959: Self reproduction of machines and eating right in space... 1909: Writers needed in Hollywood, the latest Zeppelin airship, and the legal status of the snail... 1859: The design of steamship compartments... |
Wired
August 18, 2008
James Lee |
Blimpin' Ain't Easy: Crossing the English Channel in a Pedal-Powered Airship* A 39-year-old Frenchman is hoping to cross the English Channel in a homemade, pedal-powered airship. |
Outside
November 2002
Dianna Delling |
Wet Zeppelin Windbags on a mission: Fighting fires with new super-soaker blimps |
