Strong winds from a recent storm in the south sent a US Customs and Border Protection surveillance blimp flying nearly 600 ...

This was a time of experimentation as the US Navy experimented with how aircraft could be transported and given longer ranges. In the early interwar period, airships were seen as the future of ...

The Navy believed that the airship could aid in scouting—flying ahead of a fleet to identify an enemy. But critics were quick to point out that airships’ giant size hindered this aim.

The Puritan blimp became the United States’ first permanently licensed ... during World War II – by safely escorting 89,000 Navy ships without a single one of them lost to submarine attacks.

Strong winds from a recent storm in the south sent a US Customs and Border Protection surveillance blimp flying nearly 600 miles across Texas. The blimp – resembling a while-hot air balloon ...