Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

In 1912 airships and balloons, powered and unpowered, were being developed to explore, to entertain, to travel, and to wage war. Aerostats (any lighter-than-air craft) remained highly sensitive to weather and many were floated by flammable hydrogen (at least until the destruction of the Hindenburg in May 1937) but despite the limitations, great hopes were placed on these frail craft. [More]

Even veteran disaster investigators were stunned by the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 .