As the battle for the skies came to World War I, the British Royal Navy soon found itself desperately trying to get rid of ...

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota in ...

In October 1917, eight German zeppelins lost their way above French territory. The L-49 landed in Bourbonne-les-Bains. On the night of October 19, 1917, eleven German zeppelins slowly ascended from ...

Radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison’s “oh, the humanity!” exclamation amid the 1937 Hindenburg disaster sounded in my mind recently as I gazed at an exhibit near the German ground where the airship’s ...

Born into German nobility in 1838, Ferdinand von Zeppelin attended an engineering college and then joined the German army. During the U.S. Civil War, he was sent to Virginia to serve as an observer ...