On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” USS Macon (ZRS-5) was lost in a storm of the California coast. Having once ...

The Zeppelin Museum offers a clear view of how airships actually operated, beyond their often romanticized image. Located in Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Constance, it occupies a former ...