The Lighter-Than-Air Society

The conferences will be held in Friedrichshafen, Germany on April 26 and at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Continue reading →

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8 April 2013- From mid-April, the Zeppelin NT will once again be on a mission for climate research – this time travelling as far as Finland. Scientists are starting the second part of their measurement campaign within the pan-EU project PEGASOS, which aims to investigate relationships between atmospheric chemistry and climate change.  Continue reading →

The Lighter-Than-Air Society commemorated the 80^th anniversary of the christening and first flight of the USS Macon and the tragic loss of the USS Akron and the J-3 training blimp with a special program at the Akron-Summit County Main Library. Continue reading →

Click here to see special online content that supplements our Spring 2013 issue of Buoyant Flight. View additional content as well as some items in color. There is also a Virtual Photo Album of pictures taken during construction of the USS Macon, the christening of the airship and its first flights.

Source: USAToday.com

History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster, but it’s not the one people are familiar with.

Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison’s plaintive cry, “Oh, the humanity!” made the 1937 explosion of Germany’s Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station probably the best-known crash of an airship.

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