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 ...
Even one of the world’s most famous airships can’t fly everywhere, but it takes a special truck to truck to control Goodyear’s massive airship while it’s not in the sky. The Mack Granite model used to ...
Needing a reliable truck tough enough to easily handle mooring the Goodyear Blimp, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company chose a modified Mack Granite model as a mast truck for its iconic cargo. When you ...
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's Wingfoot One airship is parked outside the company's Wingfoot Lake hangar in Suffield, near Akron. A century ago, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company decided to take ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...