At Lakehurst, N.J., last week Captain Marion H. Eppes, commander of the naval air station, received orders to suspend the U.S. Navy’s blimp program. By next December, all but two of the Navy blimps ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It was almost noon on August 6, 1942, when Ethel Appleton of Daly City, a suburb on the edge of San Francisco ...

Over two decades after it was last deflated, detached from its gondola, and crated up at Lakehurst, the gas bag of an N-class ZPG-2W blimp was broken out and dusted off for what might have been the ...

It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the past four days ...

L-8 was a Goodyear advertising blimp repurposed by the Navy to hunt enemy submarines during WWII, and on a late summer morning in 1942, it took off with two crewmen aboard. Many eyewitnesses spotted ...