OSHKOSH—It’s a significant year for Goodyear’s iconic “Blimp.” In 2025, Goodyear is celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the ...

Semi-rigid airships have a partial rigid frame, but most of their shape comes from internal gas pressure. A zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by one company, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin of Germany.

Notable mentions here include the semi-rigid Zeppelin NT, the hybrid Airlander 10, and more recently LTA’s rigid Pathfinder 1, which as the name suggests is a pathfinder airship.

AERONAUTICS: Rigid Airships 2 minute read TIME September 17, 1928 12:00 AM GMT-4 ...

The airship's slender gondola, which has seats for eight passengers, is a little under the size of a school bus and has a gobsmacking, 360-degree view. Dolphins bounce over waves and seals flop ...

The engineering didn’t stop there. Rigid airships fell out of use after the Hindenburg (LZ129) caught fire and crashed to the ground while docking in New Jersey in 1937.

Goodyear began making airships for the U.S. Navy in 1917, and its first blimp – the first commercial non-rigid airship flown using helium – launched years later, becoming a marketing tool.

John Lust, the last known surviving crew member from the Navy’s disaster-prone rigid airship program of the 1920s and 1930s, died December 29 in Butler, N.J. Lust enlisted in the Navy at 17, a few ...