This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier ...
NASMRB copy (39088016467961) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Leonard J. Raymond. NASMRB copy in original dark blue publisher's cloth binding, title and vignette stamped in ...
At 5:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 18, a hot air balloon lifted into the sky. It rose above a dinosaur sculpture made from scrap lumber and used nails and a wooden building filled with sewing machines, dusty ...
The company shared on LinkedIn that on Wednesday, August 16, the third stratospheric flight test of its airship platform completed "all primary objectives, including attitude and automated pressure ...
A century ago, zeppelin passengers soared across the Atlantic Ocean in luxurious gondolas hanging from humongous hydrogen-filled balloons — the biggest aircraft humanity has ever built. Then, in 1937, ...
An airship hovers at 1,200ft over the suburbs while small, unmanned aircraft shuttle to and from the cargo deck dispatching individual parcels to homes. That is the “airborne distribution centre” ...