A US military surveillance blimp operated by contractors near Laredo, Texas, broke free from its tether on Monday evening and ...

History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison’s plaintive cry, “Oh, the ...

In 1928, Umberto Nobile’s airship Italia reached the North Pole, only to crash on the return journey and leave part of its crew stranded on drifting Arctic ice while the balloon section vanished with ...