When the Navy blimp took off, there were two crewmen aboard. A few hours later, they were gone.
On August 16, 1942, the Navy blimp L-8 departed Treasure Island on a routine anti-submarine patrol near the Farallon Islands. After reporting a suspicious oil slick and circling low over the water, ...
A once-in-a-lifetime ride on the Goodyear Blimp is up for auction to support an Ohio nonprofit. The airship, which took its first flight 100 years ago, has been a regular at major sporting events ...
Over two decades after it was last deflated, detached from its gondola, and crated up at Lakehurst, the gas bag of an N-class ZPG-2W blimp was broken out and dusted off for what might have been the ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It was almost noon on August 6, 1942, when Ethel Appleton of Daly City, a suburb on the edge of San Francisco ...