Just Like Airborn! (Well, Almost)

Today, a whole team is working to explore the crashed remains of a real-true airship. If you've read Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, you know that an airship is a blimp: a helium filled football-shaped balloon that people can fly around.

Airborn is a fantasy book that imagines what it would be like if that's what we used to get around instead of airplanes. Rich people using it to travel, poor people working on it - and airship pirates attacking them!

Well, it turns out, in 1935, the Armed Forces really truly used airships as flying aircraft carriers. One crashed off the coast of California in 1935. They are using robots to look at the wreck. The story is here.