Original caption: The new high tech blimp cruises along the southern California coastline. Non-rigid airships are usually filled with helium, and have no rigid structure other than tail fins and the gondola. --- Image by © Paul Bowen/Science Faction/Corbis
San Francisco, California, USA --- a single airship hovers above San Francisco --- Image by © Jefferson Hayman/Corbis
01 Jan 1916, France --- World War I. French observation airship (France). In 1916. --- Image by © adoc-photos/Corbis
1928 --- Le Macchine per Volare o Aeromobili si Dividono in Aerostatiche, Aerodinamiche Poster by Dilazzaro --- Image by © Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS
1932, Schenectady, New York State, USA --- Airship over General Electric Building --- Image by © Schenectady Museum; Hall of Electrical History Foundation/CORBIS
1914, Kiel, Germany --- A British naval vessel visits Kiel Harbour, Germany on the eve of war with Zeppelin passenger airship overhead. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
ca. 1930s, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA --- Airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin hovers over airship LZ 126 Los Angeles near a hangar at Lakehurst, New Jersey. --- Image by © CORBIS
ca. 1900, Germany --- The German, dirigible Graf Zeppelin, sails through the European and North American skies of the early 1900s. Zeppelins were a popular form of transportation until the 1930s. --- Image by © CORBIS
15 Oct 1928, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA --- Original caption: The Graf Zeppelin ready to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey. --- Image by © Corbis
05 May 1919 --- A US Navy airship with a gun mounted on top of the envelope lands --- Image by © National Geographic Creative/Corbis
Dirigible flying over a city --- Image by © Johannes Mann/Corbis
01 Jan 1937, USA --- 1930s roadside zeppelin shaped diner --- Image by © Charles Phelps Cushing/ClassicStock/Corbis
Belgium --- World War I, German Zeppelin, bombed by a British plane, crashing over Saint-Amand, in Belgium, Frontpage of French newspaper Le Petit Journal, June 27, 1915, --- Image by © Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis
ca. 1936 --- Nach Sudamerika in 3 Tagen! Poster by Ottomar Anton --- Image by © Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS
Berlin, Germany --- Original caption: Olympic Games, Berlin, 1936. The airship Hindenburg crossing the Reichsportfield. --- Image by © Corbis
May 1928, Stockholm, Sweden --- Umberto Nobile's dirigible flys near Stockholm, on the way to Spitzbergen, from where it would carry the Italian navigator, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, and American financer Lincoln Ellsworth over the North Pole. --- Image by © CORBIS
ca. 1934, Virginia, USA --- Original caption: INTERIOR AIRSHIP HANGAR, LANGLEY FIELD, VA. --- Image by © Lake County Museum/CORBIS
ca. 1939-1945 --- A non-rigid airship, K-type, sails over an Atlantic convoy. --- Image by © CORBIS
1989, Oakland, California, USA --- The Goodyear Blimp Columbia sails over a stadium in Oakland during a World Series Game. --- Image by © Bob Rowan/Progressive Image/Corbis
05 May 1919, Arcadia, California, USA --- Six dirigibles ready for flight at the US Army Balloon School --- Image by © Huddleston Studio/National Geographic Creative/Corbis