Goodyear Airdock - Wikipedia
The Goodyear Airdock is a construction and storage airship hangar in Akron, Ohio. At its completion in 1929, it was the largest building in the world without interior supports.
Airship Bases | Goodyear Blimp
Built in 1917, the hangar at Wingfoot Lake is the oldest airship facility and one of the oldest active aircraft bases in the world. In addition to a maintenance and construction facility for Goodyear's blimp fleet.
Behind The Scenes - Goodyear Blimp
Take a virtual tour of Goodyear's Blimp hangar at Wingfoot Lake in Akron, Ohio, or request a visit to one of the three airship bases located across the country in: Akron, Ohio; Pompano Beach, Florida; and Carson, California.
Akron's historic blimp hanger is home to a new generation of …
2022年5月6日 · LTA Research CEO Alan Weston says the new fleet of massive airships will be able to deliver humanitarian aid to remote areas of the world struck by disaster. The company has been working with the University of Akron's engineering department since 2017 to hone early design and prototyping. The company is now ready to scale up production.
Goodyear Airdock - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024) - Tripadvisor
2016年9月6日 · You can't get in to look around but you can drive right up to it. Over 1100 feet long, 300 feet wide and over 200 feet high. One of the biggest buildings I've ever seen. If you are an aviation enthusiast, this is a must see facility if you are in Akron. No Goodyear blimps on site when we were there, unless they were inside.
Akron Airdock to produce airships once again, starting with a big …
2022年5月5日 · By next year, LTA should have as many as 200 people working at the former Lockheed Martin, and before that Goodyear Aerospace, campus next to Akron Fulton International Airport. The iconic airdock, completed in 1929, is being transformed into a state-of-the-art facility, Weston and others said.
Goodyear Airdock – Akron, Ohio - Atlas Obscura
2014年11月14日 · The almost comically large hangar stands over 200 feet tall and well over 1,000 feet long, all without any interior supports like pillars or struts.
Akron Airdock - Cleveland Historical
Goodyear still maintains a blimp hangar, home to one of the famous Goodyear blimps seen at sporting events, at Wingfoot Lake in nearby Suffield. Wingfoot Lake was the original site of Goodyear's Aeronautics Department. In 1917, the company began building blimps and training military pilots at the site.
Akron, Ohio | Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin acquired the Airdock, a former Goodyear Zeppelin facility, in 1997. Built in 1929, the airship hangar was designed to construct and store lighter-than-air ships, including the famous Goodyear Blimp. Additionally, the Airdock is so large it could fit seven football fields inside.
Goodyear Airdock - U.S. National Park Service
Goodyear Airdock Photo courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Engineering Record, Reproduction Number HAER 77-AKRO,6-31 . The Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio, was constructed in 1929 by the Goodyear Zepplin Corporation from plans created by the Wilbur Watson Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
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