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00 Virtual Museum
- Dr. & Mrs. A. Dale Topping L-T-A Museum Virtual Museum of the Lighter-Tan-Air Society’s Collection
01 Other Museums and Exhibits
- MAPS Air Museum – North Canton, Ohio MAPS Air Museum – Including the Control Car from the Goodyear blimp Spirit of Akron
- Summit Memory View The Lighter Than Air Society’s collection on Summit Memory
03 Associations
- Naval Airship Assn. Home of the Naval Airship Association
- Northeast Ohio Balloon Pilots Association
Category Archives: Rigid airship
Rare Archival Airship Films Have Been Digitized and Are Available for Viewing
The Archival Services of the University of Akron have digitized four nitrate films that form part of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. records stored at the university. The videos were first transferred from highly combustible nitrate to safety film … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, Dirigible, Hangars and Sheds, Historical, Movies, Rigid airship
Tagged Airdock, airship, Akron, dirigible, goodyear, Navy Day, USS Akron
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Airship Autopsy – Before the Hindenburg, there was the Shenandoah
Source: MIT News Magazine/MIT Technology Review – technologyreview.com By Michael Greshko and SM ’15 Just before dawn on September 3, 1925, the Shenandoah, an airship that was over two football fields long and constructed from an alloy of copper and … Continue reading
Ashtead Supplies Equipment for Scientific Subsea Expedition to Explore US Airship Wreckage
Source: Ashtead Technology – ashtead-technology.com Ashtead Technology, the global number one independent provider of subsea equipment rental, sales and services has been supporting attempts to explore the wreckage of the USS Macon, the United States Navy’s last flying aircraft.
MOVIE TIME! – Friday October 23, 2015
Featuring the USS Akron, the Akron Airdock and Navy Day On Friday, October 23 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM (the day before our Annual Banquet), Vic Fleischer, director of the University of Akron Archival Services, cordially invites you to view … Continue reading
Posted in Airships, Dirigible, History, Movies, Rigid airship
Tagged Airdock, airship, Akron, dirigible, goodyear, Navy Day, U Akron Archival Services, University of Akron, USS Akron
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90th anniversary of the loss of USS Shenandoah commemorated in Ava
By Eric Brothers The loss of the U.S. Navy rigid airship USS Shenandoah and 14 of her crew over southern Ohio on Sept, 3, 1925 was remembered in a ceremony on Sept. 6, 2015, near where the dirigible broke up … Continue reading