Pathfinder 1, bankrolled by a Google billionaire, is an attempt to revive the airship. A century after terrifying disasters, ...

From 1919 to 2014, it was a blimp, classified as a nonrigid airship, meaning that its balloon, or envelope, had no internal structure. But in 2014, in collaboration with the Zeppelin company in ...

the vehicle uses the buoyancy from its helium envelope to create only 60-80% of its lift. The rest of the left is generated aerodynamically by air passing over the eliptical shape of the airship ...

For even if we only consider the ropes by which the balancing weight is attached to the envelope, as the sb:e of the airship is increased, these ropes must be made both thicker and longer.

The fact that "La Patrie" remained aloft for four days speaks well for the tightness of its envelope. Had there been anyone on board the airship, it could, of course, have been brought to earth at ...

Compared to the current fleet of Goodyear blimps, the new airship models will be longer, faster and more maneuverable. The envelope being applied to the new airship is made of polyester with a ...

The Giffard airship was an elongated 143-foot-long envelope tapered to points at each end. Foreshadowing the massive German Zeppelins of the following century, the Giffard airship was filled with ...

Goodyear is celebrating 100 years of its famous blimps by bringing two of them to the annual Oshkosh fly-in convention.

The Goodyear blimps made its maiden flight in 1925 Goodyear's first civilian blimp was the " Goodyear Type AD," which the company named Pilgrim. It made its maiden flight in Akron, Ohio ...

The project, which you can explore in detail here, revolves around a modular airship composed of individual spherical bodies filled with helium or hydrogen—or even a vacuum—arranged in a 3x3x6 ...

Bicester-based motor manufacturer Evolito has once again partnered with Flying Whales to get the French startup’s latest ...