LAX. Thousands of spectators jammed Mines Field on Aug. 26, 1929, 20 years before the airfield officially became known as Los Angeles International Airport. The occasion: the arrival of the Graf ...

Graf Zeppelin navigator Max Prüß uses a sextant to find a Sun line of position during a record-setting, around-the-world flight in 1929. (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) It was ...

Many people believe Nazis had some of the most advanced technology of World War II. The Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet was probably the fastest plane in the skies back then, even if it was neither safe ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany--It's one of the most famous photographs ever--the Hindenburg exploding on its mast, lives instantly lost, the romance of a modern way of travel forever tainted. That is ...

On 15 August 1929, the Spanish doctor Jerónimo Megías fulfilled his dream by embarking on the first trip around the world in the Graf Zeppelin. It was not the first time that Megías, King Alfonso XIII ...

MORRISTOWN — In this picture taken on Oct. 7, 1936, the Hindenburg, the 803-foot-long passenger airship and the largest aircraft ever to fly, passes over Columbia Meadows, Morristown. According to ...

This week, the Goodyear Blimp was spotted over El Paso, with many sharing images of the blimp on social media Wednesday, Aug. 13. The blimp was also spotted in May, according to social media posts.

Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider fleet. What You Need to Know: The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is ...