On clear days, the company says, the Eiffel Tower would be visible in the distance. The Chateau de Versailles and Seine River are other sights to be seen on the airship’s itineraries.

At the time, no airship had docked at the Empire State Building ... McCraken jockeyed for position in the half gale about the tower 1,200 feet above the ground,” the Times reported in 1931.

No image is more arresting than that of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles docking at the ... In December the Navy airship J-4 flew from Lakehurst and hovered around the tower at the request of ...

On May 6, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was officially opened to the public during the Exposition Universelle, a World Fair held in Paris to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution. The tower ...

Santos-Dumont rounding the Eiffel Tower during an earlier flight in July ... was ready with his airship No. 6. In his 1904 autobiography, Santos-Dumont grumbled about some of the rules attached ...