Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet a few of the competitors who will fly homemade airships during Milwaukee's first Red Bull Flugtag This summer, 40 teams will ...

Airships. Slow, difficult to land, and highly flammable when they’re full of hydrogen. These days, they’re considered more of a historical curiosity rather than a useful method of transport. Hybrid ...

Despite the 1937 disaster wherein a hydrogen-powered German airship known as the Hindenburg exploded over New Jersey killing 36, dirigibles have remained in flight for over 170 years. Known also as ...

The first age of airships ended in flames—the next one begins with an entire world on fire. With a warming climate rapidly melting the ice caps, animals blinking out of existence, and ...

Zeppelins, the rigid airships most famously epitomized by the Hindenburg, now seem kind of retro, rather than the image of futurity they represented in the 1930s. But they could be about to make a ...