Goodyear To Replace Its Blimps With Zeppelins

Rigid airships are back, baby! Goodyear is about to succeed where the American military has failed. Rigid airships, also known as zeppelins, seem perpetually stuck in the past, associated more with the optimism of the 1920s and then the fiery doom of the Hindenburg crash. Now, it looks like Goodyear will have their first zeppelin flying in 2014. The U.S. military tried to revive zeppelins in the 2000s. Those programs (one each for the Navy, Air Force, and Army) had drawn-out and frustrating deve...