The Rubber Industry brought Akron to amazing heights, and allowed us to be home to the very beginning of lighter than air blimp and zeppelin travel. 1. Early Model Balloon, One of The First 2. The 'Akron' depicted and detailed here around 1912. 3. C-Class Blimp, Used for Patrol, Photo 1918 4. TC Style Blimp, 1923 Looks like an Open Gondola! Check out the Control Panel Below.. My son would say it's very Steampunk! Below is the unnamed crew from a TC model, same as above. These brave men are from the US Army Corps. 5. An E Class
USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. She was built from 1922 to 1923 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, and first flew in September, 1923. She developed the Navy's experience with rigid airships, even making the first crossing of the North American continent by airship. You can find more information at: www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-airships/uss-shenandoah
Several ships responded quickly to calls for help, and all but two crew members were...
Lighter-than-Air flying with the Navy’s MZ-3 The U.S. Navy formerly flew a great many lighter-than-aircraft yet operates a single manned one today through a contractor. The MZ-3 is a blimp pr…
There are more than 700 air and space-related museums in this country. Each Monday, we highlight one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. This week: The Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon. The museum has about three dozen aircraft in its collection, but I’ve chosen to highlight it this week because of history of →
Who doesn’t love the Goodyear Blimp? The Goodyear Blimp may be the best known and most loved airship in history. As I said in an interview with CNN,...
Photographer Jeffrey Milstein highlights the beauty of aircraft design in his photographs of the undersides of aircraft in flight.
Several ships responded quickly to calls for help, and all but two crew members were...
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Who doesn’t love the Goodyear Blimp? The Goodyear Blimp may be the best known and most loved airship in history. As I said in an interview with CNN,...
On 16 August 1942, the U.S. Navy L-8 blimp crash-landed in Daly City, CA. The two crew members, Ernest Cody and Charles Adams were missing.
The Aeroscraft is built using innovative technology which allows it to control its flight better than previous airships, so it should avoid the problems experienced by the first generation of zeppelins.
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‘Here is my new post submission. I am calling it “When Blimps/ Dirigibles/Airships Ruled the Sky”,’ writes Robert E. Jackson. ‘It is a rather awkward title but I am not sure these are all “blimps”, etc. I think the photos feature a combination of what the title indicates.’ They do. They show a time when … Continue reading "When Blimps, Dirigibles and Airships Ruled the Sky"
The blimp burst into flames while it was trying to dock at U.S. Naval Air Station Lakehurst's mooring mast on May 6, 1937.
