Thanks to pilots like Basaran, the Goodyear Blimp fleet is still globetrotting. The company operates three blimps in the U.S.

But, the blimps received more than just advertising attention. During the World Wars, Goodyear manufactured blimps for the ...

The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Pilgrim,” its first blimp to take flight just outside ...

Few modes of transportation have captured the public’s imagination like blimps and other airships. Something about these ...

As anyone who grew up in Akron can tell you, it's a special day when you see the Goodyear Blimp. This week, as part of the ...

T he age of the airship is back, kind of. On 15 May, startup LTA Research flew its Pathfinder 1 airship outside Silicon ...

In an era of “green" gimmicks and sky-high risk, author John J. Geoghegan says only capitalism can determine if ...

Nearly a century after the Hindenburg, a new generation of airship companies says they have a greener alternative for tourism and cargo flights.

The AT2 Aerospace Z1 airship aims to use a combination of hydrogen-powered thrust vectoring and helium buoyancy to efficiently carry people and goods over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) per trip.

Likewise, the airship's engines are no longer inline but staggered along its length to reduce the wind, drag and vibration that they used to cause. Like many other new designs, it uses helium as a ...

Replacing flammable hydrogen with helium has allowed for safer development and aims to avoid a repeat of the Hindenburg disaster, the luxury German airship that exploded live on film in 1937.