This football season, Goodyear's three blimps are set to hover over eight college football bowls, including Atlanta's Chick-fil-A Bowl, Florida's Orange Bowl, California's Rose Bowl, Arizona's Fiesta ...
In an old aircraft hangar in Suffield, Ohio , a crew of eight to 10 mechanics and manufacturers is working to assemble Goodyear's next generation of airships. Its carbon fiber and aluminum skeleton ...
But this time, the Spirit of America, the oldest ship in the small fleet, was headed for a different fate. The company, which has three blimps in service in the U.S. at any time, plans to stop flying ...
The Zeppelin-built Wingfoot Two Goodyear Blimp is one of three that fly in the U.S. The aircraft can travel up to 6,600 nautical miles.
Goodyear donated a GZ20 gondola to the EAA Aviation Museum for a children's exhibit. The donation coincides with Goodyear's 100th anniversary of its airship program. Two Goodyear blimps will ...