If you look up in the Houston skies this weekend and see what looks like a giant cucumber floating through the clouds, you aren't hallucinating. Hendrick's Gin, the maker of a super premium gin made ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES --The fabled Goodyear Blimp is retiring. But don't fret, blimp fans. That big, cigar-shaped thing you've seen floating over sports events all your life will still be there. It will also ...

According to Airships.com: A dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is both powered and steerable (as opposed to free floating, like a balloon). Blimps like the Goodyear blimp, rigid airships ...

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 ...

The first time Don McDonald went to Grand Central airport was in 1929. He and his father watched the launch of the metal dirigible built by Thomas B. Slate, a local inventor who had developed ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Thursday that it intends to spend $400 million to develop a giant dirigible that will float 65,000 feet above Earth for 10 years, providing unblinking and intricate ...