He later used a similar design for Hangar One in California. The USS Akron was the first airship built in the Airdock. It was three times as long as a modern Airbus 380 but only half as wide.

After 100 years, the Goodyear blimp remains an icon of the skies. Why it matters: The airship doubles as one of the greatest ...

Thanks to pilots like Basaran, the Goodyear Blimp fleet is still globetrotting. The company operates three blimps in the U.S. that fly out of Ohio, Florida and California. They travel around 100 days ...

The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Pilgrim,” its first blimp to take flight just outside of the city on June 3, 1925. The airships took to the skies on Tuesday, and ...

It’s a sight you don’t often see: all three U.S.-based Goodyear airships are set to fly over the Akron area together this ...

The airship had a hangar, then a large hook dropped to launch and recover the airplanes. The Akron had 60 “sailors” on board, weighing 110 tons. Not all was smooth; two sailors died after a ...

A Goodyear blimp is moored outside the Wingfoot Lake hangar in Suffield Township. Akron is the world headquarters ... groups in the communities near its airship bases. “Goodyear donates ...

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 ...