Onlookers were promised lasers, but they got only the dimmest of light shows. And they weren't happy about it.

U.S. Navy; Achim Mende / Zeppelin In the 1930s ... Management found that an airship five times the length of the Empire State Building riding the jet stream could circle the globe in 14 days ...

The Graf Zeppelin is regarded as the most successful ... check as a deposit for the next airship - the LZ-130. The Empire State Building's mooring mask was officially built to dock airships ...

A popular myth claims that the top of the Empire State Building was meant to serve as a docking station for dirigibles, but the building's owners say that the story is just hot air. Home Browse ...