labyrinthine cliffs jump puzzles?
The entire area is a jumping puzzle to some extent being that one of the side goals in the area is collect at least 40 of 52 crystals that you find littered around on various ledges.
is there a way to get to those smaller airships on the map?
Lessons from the sky is pretty much a series of jump puzzles using the special aspects you acquire from areas in the map. Here is a good guide for finding them with instructions but if you prefer an extra challenge you can chose to ignore the step by steps and videos for each one.
http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-sky-crystals-lessons-from-the-sky-achievement-guide/
As for getting to the airships I don’t think you can.
The Burninator