A Zeppelin Cigar from a friend!
The wonderful and generous Joe May from the Travel for Aircraft blog sent me a delightfully unexpected gift: a zeppelin cigar. It is specifically a…
The wonderful and generous Joe May from the Travel for Aircraft blog sent me a delightfully unexpected gift: a zeppelin cigar. It is specifically a…
Happy Airships Thanksgiving from the USA.
Werner Doehner, the last living survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, died on November 8, 2019 in Laconia, New Hampshire.Werner was 8 years old when he…
A new, revised, and expanded edition of Zeppelin Hindenburg: An Illustrated History of LZ-129 is now available for pre-order! This new edition includes additional information,…
Anyone want to buy a blimp?
The Museum Edition of AIRSHIPS: Designed for Greatness is now available for purchase in the USA. The book showcases the illustrations of Italian artist Max Pinucci, who has…
A company making hydrogen for airships. Now here’s an investment not to be missed.
In honor of International Women’s Day, a tribute to suffragist Muriel Matters and her “Votes For Women” airship. To bring attention to the movement for…
This photograph shows Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (holding rifle) in the United States in 1863, after his return from an expedition to the source of…
This plate from Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War shows Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin among a group of Union officers outside the Fairfax Courthouse…
Over the years, many books, articles, and websites — including, until now, this one — have described the following image as a photograph of Count Ferdinand…
A generally well-made video about the end of airship travel. I wish they had not sanitized history by censoring the flag on LZ-129’s fins, and…
Happy New Year to all airship lovers, helium-heads, and the world. Glückliche Fahrt im neuen Jahr!
I recently had the pleasure of discussing airships as a guest host on The Rocketeer Minute, a podcast that devotes a segment to each minute of…
Remembering French airships and wishing all our friends in France a very happy Fête Nationale!
This “concept airship” by Dassault keeps showing up on the interwebs, so I did some quick math to calculate the weight of the water in that…
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin died 100 years ago today, on March 8, 1917. In good health despite his 78 years, Zeppelin had traveled to Berlin…
This very cool T-shirt celebrating Graf Zeppelin‘s 1929 Round-the-World flight is available on Amazon.com. I asked Kirk McGinnis, who created the shirt, to explain what inspired him. Kirk…
Today is the anniversary of the airship Hindenburg’s first flight.
A partially burned postcard recovered from the wreckage of the Hindenburg disaster will be offered for sale at the Felzmann zeppelin mail auction on March 9, 2017,…