Airship Italia moored in King's bay, Spitsbergen island, Norway, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LV, No 23, June 3, 1928. The Arctic has always had an almost mystical appeal to anyone who’s ...

On May 24, 1928, Gen. Umberto Nobile and his crew aboard the airship Italia—code-named N-4—dropped Italian flags and a small wooden cross given them by Pope Pius XI onto the North Pole from 450 feet ...

During the Roaring '20s just about everybody was convinced that dirigibles were not just the future of luxury travel but that these lumbering airships could also serve as platforms for scientific ...

A century ago, airships plied the skies. While we often remember the Wright brothers for ushering in the age of aviation, we tend to overlook the fact that before passenger airplanes arrived, ...