Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.

America (airship)

Blimp used by Walter Wellman (1906–10)

The America was a non-rigid airship built by Louis Mutin Godard in France in 1906 for the journalist Walter Wellman's attempt to reach the North Pole by air. Wellman first conceived of using a balloon to fly to the pole during a failed polar attempt by boat and sledge from…