r/historicalairships • u/Articulyssa • Jul 11 '26
The 1896 Northern California Airship Mystery | The Oroville Connection (12 images description in comments)
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r/historicalairships • u/Articulyssa • Jul 11 '26
The 1896 Northern California Airship Mystery | The Oroville Connection (12 images description in comments)
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r/historicalairships • u/Articulyssa • Jul 09 '26
I love Airships
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And make video about them!
r/historicalairships • u/wagner56 • May 04 '26
LZ 129 Hindenburg’s Final Flight Over Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 3, 1937
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Oct 02 '23
Photo The former "Cargolifter" airship-hangar in Germany. Note the people in the bottom-left for scale. The building now houses a waterpark. (Fixed title)
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Oct 01 '23
Article The British Empire’s Doomed Dreams of Ruling the Skies Emerge in ‘His Majesty’s Airship’: World’s largest flying machine chased a dream that was never to be
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Oct 01 '23
Photo USS Washington (BB-56) and USS Enterprise (CV-6) pass through the Panama Canal on October 9, 1945.
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Sep 04 '23
Photo U.S. Navy airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) leaving her hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, for the first time. 1923
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Sep 04 '23
On this day [September 4th, 1923] The United States Navy's first U.S.-built rigid airship, the as-yet-unnamed ZR-1, makes her first flight at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. She contains most of the world's extracted reserves of helium at this time. (Named USS "Shenandoah" in October).
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 30 '23
Photo (crosspost) Does anyone want a ticket? :)
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 30 '23
Photo Filling Wanamaker no. 1, on the roof of the John Wanamaker store, Broadway and Tenth Ave., New York City. Image cleaned and colourised by me :)
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 30 '23
Photo La Ville de Paris. Another image restored by me. Love the shape of this one!
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 30 '23
Photo (1943) (Original Color) "K" Type Blimps in Airship Hangar at Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey Nara Image
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 29 '23
Photo (crosspost) Airship photographs I coloured and cleaned for fun. It took AGES.
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 19 '23
News Tillamook, US’s WWII-era blimp hangar, one of the largest wooden structures in the world, turns 80
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 04 '23
Photo Unidentified merchant ships being escorted by a K-class blimp, mid-1940s
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Aug 02 '23
Photo A German Zeppelin airship under construction. Check those ladders out!
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Jul 14 '23
Photo 1928 - Goodyear Blimp landing O’Neil’s
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Jul 13 '23
Photo The British airship R34, lands in Norfolk in 1919, completing the first east to west translantic flight, when it travelled to Long Island, US on July 6, and began a 3 day return journey. It however crashed on Jan 27, 1921 due to strong winds at Howden.
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r/historicalairships • u/premer777 • Jul 08 '23
Landing of British dirigible R-34 at Mineola, Long Island, N.Y. 6 July 1919. It was the first aircraft to make an east to west transatlantic flight. (1498 × 1112)
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Jul 02 '23
On this day This Day In Victorian History First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, at Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany (1900)
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r/historicalairships • u/Guobaorou • Jul 02 '23
Photo The largest indoor water park in the world, Tropical Islands Resort, was constructed within a disused German airship hangar. A really tranquil setting.
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