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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
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
1930s --- The USS Macon flies over New York. The rigid airship first flew for the US Navy in 1933 and crashed in 1935. --- Image by © Baldwin H. Ward & Kathryn C. Ward/CORBIS
26 Oct 1933, Sunnyvale, California, USA --- The Macon Approaches an Airfield --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
06 May 1937, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA --- The German airship Hindenburg falls to the ground as the hydrogen gases that kept it aloft explode in a gigantic fireball. The explosion occurred during a landing at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937. Miraculously, 61 of its 97 passengers and crew escaped. --- Image by © 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
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
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
28 Aug 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA --- Original caption: 8/28/1929-Los Angeles, CA: Graff Zeppelin lands in Los Angeles. Less than 80 hours after she lifted her silver slpendor from Kasumigaura Flying Field in Tokyo, the giant zeppelin made her Los Angeles landing at the break of day. Photograph shows rear view of zeppelin. --- Image by © Corbis
ca. 1931, Akron, Ohio, USA --- The Akron TC-13, largest nonrigid airship ever built in the United States. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS