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Where do you park a zeppelin (here, the Navy airship <i>Los Angeles</i>)? On a seven-story-high mooring mast.

Last One Out, Shut off the Helium

Fifty years ago, the Navy ended its lighter-than-air program.
August 2011 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

The first zeppelin in the United States in 70 years, <i>Eureka</i> lands in Monterey, California (this high-dynamic-range photo emphasizes differences in light intensity).

Z2

The latest in sightseeing tours, brought to you by Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin.
March 2011 | By Marshall Lumsden

CargoLifter built the world’s largest free-standing building, big enough to hold 14 Boeing 747s, for its prototype CL-75 airship.

Then and Now: From Airships to Waterslides

The world's largest free-standing building gets a second lease on life.
January 2011 | By Roger A. Mola

Fear of Floating

Fear of Floating

Diagnosis: Collective Panic Attack. Cause: Count von Zeppelin.
July 2009 | By Dan Vergano

The USS Akron

Lighter Than Air

An illustrated history of balloons and airships.
May 20, 2009 | By Tom D. Crouch

The developers of Cargolifter CL 160, a German design, used to say that their craft could carry 26,000 pounds of food to disaster victims. But the Cargolifter itself needs aid now; its parent company has declared bankruptcy.

Spy Blimps and Heavy Lifters

The latest thing in airships.
September 2007 | By Ben Iannotta

Midnight Raiders

How zeppelin bombers during World War I terrorized the British-and their own German crews.
January 2006 | By Nicholas Nirgiotis

Moscow Aviation Institute Thermoplane

Too Ugly to Print in a Magazine

Four aircraft so ugly they could only be published on the web...
June 1997 | By Air & Space staff


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