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Goodyear Blimp
The Goodyear Blimp is any one of a fleet (currently 4 in number) of commercial airships operated by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, used mainly for advertising and broadcasting aerial views of live sports events for television. The term blimp itself is defined as a non-rigid airship—without any internal structure, the pressure of lifting gas within the airship envelope maintains the vessel's shape.
Goodyear built hundreds of airships throughout much of the 20th century, mostly for the United States Navy. Beginning with the Pilgrim in 1925, Goodyear also built blimps for its own commercial fleet. In 1987, a hostile takeover bid forced Goodyear to sell its subsidiary Goodyear Aerospace, eventually ending the company's construction of lighter-than-air craft. The last blimp built by Goodyear, Spirit of Innovation, was retired in 2017.
Beginning in 2014, Goodyear replaced its three U.S. blimps with three new semi-rigid airships; built by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company, each have a rigid internal frame. Although technically incorrect, Goodyear continues to use "blimp" in reference to these new semi-rigid models. Wingfoot One, the first such model in Goodyear's U.S. fleet, was christened on August 23, 2014, at the Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar, near the company's world headquarters in Akron, Ohio.
In May 2011, Goodyear announced it was replacing its fleet of non-rigid airships with three semi-rigid airships built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
Goodyear's U.S. fleet consists of three semi-rigid airships (model LZ N07-101):
There is one operational Goodyear blimp in Europe based near the Zeppelin construction plant and home airfield in Ludwigshafen, Germany
The new airships are 246 feet (75 meters) long, 52 feet (16 meters) longer than Goodyear's old model, the GZ-20. The Zeppelin NT model is also slimmer, has a top speed of 70 miles per hour (110 kilometers per hour) (versus 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour) for the blimp), and has a passenger gondola that seats 12 (compared to seven in the blimp). The gondola also contains a restroom. Both craft are outfitted with LED displays (called "Eaglevision" by Goodyear) that can render bright, multi-colored, animated messages and images.
Goodyear has also leased blimps operating in other parts of the world. These airships were built and operated by The Lightship Group of Orlando, Florida. In 2012, The Lightship Group was acquired (along with the American Blimp Corporation) by Van Wagner Communications LLC, and operated as the Van Wagner Airship Group until November 17, 2017, when it was purchased by Airsign Inc. They currently operate an airship for Goodyear in China.
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Goodyear Blimp
The Goodyear Blimp is any one of a fleet (currently 4 in number) of commercial airships operated by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, used mainly for advertising and broadcasting aerial views of live sports events for television. The term blimp itself is defined as a non-rigid airship—without any internal structure, the pressure of lifting gas within the airship envelope maintains the vessel's shape.
Goodyear built hundreds of airships throughout much of the 20th century, mostly for the United States Navy. Beginning with the Pilgrim in 1925, Goodyear also built blimps for its own commercial fleet. In 1987, a hostile takeover bid forced Goodyear to sell its subsidiary Goodyear Aerospace, eventually ending the company's construction of lighter-than-air craft. The last blimp built by Goodyear, Spirit of Innovation, was retired in 2017.
Beginning in 2014, Goodyear replaced its three U.S. blimps with three new semi-rigid airships; built by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company, each have a rigid internal frame. Although technically incorrect, Goodyear continues to use "blimp" in reference to these new semi-rigid models. Wingfoot One, the first such model in Goodyear's U.S. fleet, was christened on August 23, 2014, at the Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar, near the company's world headquarters in Akron, Ohio.
In May 2011, Goodyear announced it was replacing its fleet of non-rigid airships with three semi-rigid airships built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
Goodyear's U.S. fleet consists of three semi-rigid airships (model LZ N07-101):
There is one operational Goodyear blimp in Europe based near the Zeppelin construction plant and home airfield in Ludwigshafen, Germany
The new airships are 246 feet (75 meters) long, 52 feet (16 meters) longer than Goodyear's old model, the GZ-20. The Zeppelin NT model is also slimmer, has a top speed of 70 miles per hour (110 kilometers per hour) (versus 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour) for the blimp), and has a passenger gondola that seats 12 (compared to seven in the blimp). The gondola also contains a restroom. Both craft are outfitted with LED displays (called "Eaglevision" by Goodyear) that can render bright, multi-colored, animated messages and images.
Goodyear has also leased blimps operating in other parts of the world. These airships were built and operated by The Lightship Group of Orlando, Florida. In 2012, The Lightship Group was acquired (along with the American Blimp Corporation) by Van Wagner Communications LLC, and operated as the Van Wagner Airship Group until November 17, 2017, when it was purchased by Airsign Inc. They currently operate an airship for Goodyear in China.
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