It's not a blimp or a plane, but a plimp aircraft. For $4 million plus overages (paid out over four years), investors can buy their own Model J — a 169-foot-long (51 meters) aircraft that can ...

If the Plimp can live up to its promise, if the strange plane-blimp hybrid is as safe and as useful as promised, then it may fulfill a vision of airships spelled out in Popular Science in 1923, ...

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No discussion of airships -- blimps, in this case -- would be complete without a history of how they were developed as naval weapons. Actually, the first military use of "lighter-than-air" vehicles… ...

K-7 -- Serial 01729, Goodyear envelope D-170, 416,000 cubic feet, was delivered to Lakehurst April 29, 1942. It was the first airship delivered after the Pearl Harbor attack.

For almost 30 years, the Antonov An-225, a Ukranian cargo plane, has dwarfed all other aircraft in the history of the world. But in just a few years, the massive airplane might lose its title to a ...