Airships

In the middle of the XIX-th century, engineers began to experiment with the idea, developed in the second half of the XVIII-century Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Marie Charles Mérieux. Airships are still there, but never became popular.

We invite you to take a small excursion into the history of airships, with the help of photographs. By the way, the "golden" age of airships is considered a gap in the first half of XX-th century.

German dirigible "Hindenburg" in the sky over New York, August 8, 1936.





Balloonist Scott Thomas Baldwin returned from a flight to Portland, USA, 1905.



Scott Thomas (second from left) was the first American airship leaped with a parachute. Photo 1907.



Airship in the sky of Washington, USA, 1906.



French military dirigible «Republique» around Chalet Mendy, France, in 1907.



Zeppelin on the water in 1908.



Airship «Clement-Bayard» in a kind of hangar, France, in 1908. The unusual shape of the tail section was developed for the stability of the flight. Subsequently, it was abolished.



Airship «America» anchored at sea, 1910.



Boats, aircraft and airship in the waters of San Francisco Bay, 1922.



The airship "Norge" over Ekeberg, Norway, in 1926.



Giant "Graf Zeppelin" in New Jersey, USA, August 29, 1929.



He's over Tokyo, before the intercontinental flight, August 19, 1929.



A pair of combat aircraft Gloster Grebe fixed on the British airship «R33», October 1926.



British MPs go on board the airship in Cardington, England, in 1925.



Panorama with Washington «USS Akron», 1931.



The inner shell of an American airships before installing the gas chambers in 1933.



"Graf Zeppelin" in the sky of old Jerusalem, April 26, 1931.



German dirigible "Hindenburg" is transported to the hangar. The nose of the aircraft is fixed on a mobile tower in 1936.



His flight over Manhattan and the collapse of May 6, 1936.





Mooring airship to the Sea, 1932.



The wreckage of the airship «USS Akron», crashed off the coast of New Jersey, USA. The disaster has claimed twice as many lives than death "Hindenburg».



American blimp hovers over the Atlantic in search of enemy submarines, estimated in 1944.



«USS Macon» hovering over Manhattan, October 9, 1933.



Finally, a bit of evidence that the airships continue to exist and will continue to occupy its own niche.