The US Navy had five rigid airships, each met with different fates - most cruelly, all but one crashed. Using helium as opposed to hydrogen, these airships had potential advantages, quite the ...

On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” ...

Airships. Slow, difficult to land, and highly flammable when they’re full of hydrogen. These days, they’re considered more of a historical curiosity rather than a useful method of transport.