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The Maryland grad student benefited from materials da Vinci couldn't get. State-of-the-art Renaissance era construction materials, such as wood and leather, are too dense for aircraft. Da Vinci ...

A century ago, zeppelin passengers soared across the Atlantic Ocean in luxurious gondolas hanging from humongous hydrogen-filled balloons — the biggest aircraft humanity has ever built.

We haven’t seen airships in our skies since the days of the Hindenburg disaster – a German airship that caught fire in the skies over New Jersey. But has airship technology matured?

In “His Majesty’s Airship,” S.C. Gwynne tells of the doomed dirigible R101, and the man behind a disaster. By John Lancaster When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...