In 1930, the airship R100 set out on its first passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada.
Its namesake, The Hindenburg, was a hydrogen-filled German airship that exploded in the air in 1937.
But there is a catch: so far, nobody has ever built an airship so large.
In 1919, the first airship to cross the Atlantic, the British R-34, arrived in New York.
It was later identified "almost certainly" as an illuminated airship advertising the Ford Mondeo car.
CL160, a semi-rigid airship, will be the largest ever made, with a lifting capacity of 160 tonnes.
When the wreckage was found, Zitarosa said, the airship had collapsed to about 25 feet in height.
In 1938, the German airship LZ130 Graf Zeppelin, sister ship of the ill-fated Hindenburg, made its maiden flight.
About 6 million people ended up putting the virtual airship on their farms.
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All the first-year students at the Airship Academy had been shipped out on two-week training tours to study navigation.
Campaigners gathered at the site in Ford, near Aylesbury, to release the airship-shaped "blimp" to the turbine's 99m height.
In 1990, China's first airship, 40 metres (130 feet) long, made its maiden flight over the central province of Hubei.
J. (AP) History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster.
In September of last year, Zynga ran a campaign for Farmers Insurance with the Farmers Airship in its Farmville game.
Its Aerocraft concept is not, strictly speaking, an airship at all, but an odd aeroplane-airship hybrid intended for rapid military airlifts.
Some men who died in the Akron had survived the airship crash of the USS Shenandoah less than a year before.
It made me long for the Aurora, the airship liner where I used to work before starting my studies at the Academy.
Before his death in 1917, Count von Zeppelin, inventor of the airship, was hailed as the greatest German of the 20th century.
Hamilton Airship, a South African company, is taking a similar approach, but has updated the classical rigid-airship design with a novel twist.
They are based on a non-rigid design, in which the pressure of the helium inside the envelope is used to maintain the airship's shape.
World War II Spitfire and Mustang fighters added a note of nostalgia, and a modern, helium-filled Zeppelin airship bobbed and dipped above the crowd.
The furthest-advanced of the new airship companies, a German-American firm called CargoLifter, is planning a 260-metre-long airship that is intended to lift goods, not passengers.
Users who got the Airship would get protection for their farms.
In 2009, Top Gear bosses admitted setting up a stunt involving a caravan attached to an airship straying over Norwich airport, provoking police to intervene.
Evidently there is still plenty of life in the airship concept.
They had been moved to another airship and were never replaced.
Not to be outdone, the US Army unveiled plans for an ultra-long range hybrid airship that is capable of flying for three weeks at a time.
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