And finally, on the 11th of October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG's operations, began the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights.

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was an engineer whose self-named company made the first successful rigid airship. The path from his inspiration during a balloon trip in Minnesota ...

This is the story of a rigid airship's first circumnavigation of the Earth. It is the story of LZ 127, the Graf Zeppelin, a ship that derived its name from an old German noble title.

Airship Ventures By George Raine , Chronicle Staff WriterFeb 21, 2009 The ground crew prepares for the Zeppelin NT's landing at Moffet Field on Monday, October 27, 2008 in Mountain View, Calif.Lea ...

The airship industry in the United States can trace its beginnings to October 20, 1917, when a German zeppelin, L-49,was forced to land at Bourbonne-les-Bains, where it was captured by French forces.

On 6 May 1937, the massive Nazi zeppelin, the Hindenburg, is completing its transatlantic flight from Germany to New Jersey.

Have you ever seen a Zeppelin? Not the band, but the airship? And not just any airship, but a real Zeppelin? One of only two operating Zeppelins in the world, the Farmers Airship, will be basing ...

This fall, if our San Francisco Bay Area readers spot a zeppelin overhead, don’t worry — you haven’t been caught in a time warp. It will just mean that a startup called Airship Ventures has ...

The Airship Ventures Zeppelin will end a cross-country transit flight by making a dramatic entrance over the Golden Gate Bridge at approximately noon to 1 p.m. PDT Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 and ...

Zeppelin seeks hidden diamond stashes in Kalahari Low-noise airship's use in high-tech hunt for gems could mark a commercial comeback for zeppelins.