Though today seen as slow, floating billboards, blimps once played a pivotal and unexpected role in World War II by helping the U.S. Navy hunt Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic. In 1942, as German ...

"The salvaged components of this K-class blimp gondola, which crashed in nearby Gilroy in 1943, were found when the skin was removed from Hangar One," Wasel told FLYING. "The museum took on the ...