The RS-1, largest semi-rigid dirigible in the world and the largest of any airship in the army air service, had its second test flight Friday afternoon over O’Fallon, this time remaining in the air ...
In the March 1912 issue of Popular Mechanics, during the height of airship "balloonacy," one of the world's first aeronautical engineers Victor Lougheed wrote an article arguing that lighter-than-air ...
WASHINGTON — The next Air Force spy craft is likely to be a giant, unmanned dirigible that can remain aloft at high altitudes, keeping an unblinking watch on vehicles, planes and even people. The ...
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) – Bob Jones has a lofty idea for improving communications around the world: Strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on ...