The airship Graf Zeppelin is shown at Mines Field (now Los Angeles International Airport) on Aug. 26, 1929. Two days later, the Graf flew over Iowa on its way to Chicago before finishing its ...

Few modes of transportation have captured the public’s imagination like blimps and other airships. Something about these lighter-than-air aircraft evokes the past and feels futuristic simultaneously.

It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's ...

On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo Megías fulfilled his dream by embarking on the first trip around the world in the Graf Zeppelin. It was not the first time that Megías, King Alfonso XIII ...

Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, ...

The Hindenburg, a floating German-built palace at 805 feet in length lifted by more than 7 million cubic feet of hydrogen gas, ignited and collapsed to the ground in a billowing tower of flame on May ...

“All aboard for Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles!” bawled a sergeant of Marines at Lakehurst, N. J., one midnight last week. The Graf Zeppelin, steel blue in the floodlights, was trimmed to ...