From 1921 to 1935, the Navy maneuvered five lighter-than-air flying giants, with occasional visits to San Diego. But the ...

Last month a centennial went nearly without notice. On September 3, 1925 the US NAVY Airship USS Shenandoah crashed in Noble ...

On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship Shenandoah ZR-1 — translated to “daughter of the stars” — crashed in three sections over Noble County, Ohio. Designated by the U.S. Navy as an aircraft for use in long ...

In the years between the world wars, the US Navy experimented with massive rigid airships as flying scout cruisers. These giants, like the USS Akron and USS Macon, carried their own fighter planes and ...

The Navy has spent $129.8 million on the cleanup of the former World War II blimp hangar at the shuttered Marine Corps Air ...

This is the final part in this series. The crash of the airship USS Shenandoah in September 1925 rocked Ocean County, its home base. It was reported it had made 40 children orphans. On the 4th of the ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) conducts flight operations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (Official U.S. Navy video) This work, Nimitz Conducts Flight ...

NATO training and defence operations are taking on a real-time urgency as airspace violations proliferate across the EU.

After World War II, the Cold War highlighted the need for a capable air service to counter the Soviet threat—resulting in the Air Force’s creation on 1947.

An exhibition of works by “maverick” aerial photographer Alfred Buckham is set to open in Edinburgh next month. Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer will feature more than 100 photographs and ...