Goodyear rebranded its new blimp as the Santa Claus Express for Christmas Eve 1925. Pilots dropped parachutes laden with gifts.

Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the Christmas season with this 1925 photo of Goodyear’s “Santa Claus Express” airship from the National Air and Space Museum. In the 1920s, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber ...

Goodyear has let the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps, but the company's flight program will continue. About two dozen employees were on hand early Tuesday to witness the deflation ...

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge. It may look like a blimp – like the kind used these days for ...