I recently stumbled across a peculiar antique Terre Haute sepia-tone photo on Facebook that gave a view of something appearing like a giant sweet potato hovering over a crowd of people. The caption ...

It was 100 years ago this week – way back in 1924, in the thick of the early roaring days of aviation history – when a giant U.S. Navy airship visited the Puget Sound and took the population by storm.

While aircraft carriers are a staple of modern naval power, the United States Navy once experimented with an even more ambitious concept: flying aircraft carriers. These massive rigid airships, ...

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge. It may look like a blimp – like the kind used these days for ...