September 9, 2004 

Film Night

“DIRIGIBLE"

Jack Holt- Ralph Graves-Fray Wray

Directed by  Frank Capra (1931)

Plus a recent "featurette"

52nd Annual Banquet Guest Speaker 

Lt Col Michael Woodgerd, 

US Army Center for Army Analysis/ US OSD Office of Force Transformation

His topic will be:

"The Mobilus Initiative: Creating a New Component of the US Aerospace Industry Centered Upon Transportation Airships"

November 11, 2004 

Celebrating the diamond anniversary of Akron's Airdock

and

The beginning of construction of the ZRS-4, 

the USS Akron

Speakers

Bill Cody, Eric Brothers and Brian Steinkirschner

will highlight

"Important milestones in the Airdock's construction and evolving uses."

January 13, 2005  

Special meeting location: 

Lock 3 Akron History Exhibit, Downtown, Akron.

Leianne Neff-Heppner talked about the Akron Historical Exhibit in front of a quilt from the Summit County Historical Society.

LTAS Conservator Bill Cody gave LTAS members some history on the Robinson Clay Products Company exhibit.

Mike Cohill described some details of American toy marbles exhibit at Lock 3.

David Blewitt talked about the TV Dinner club and memorabilia from the early days of TV in Northeast Ohio.

John Miller, Director of Archival Services at the University of Akron, spoke about the history of Akron's rubber companies.

February 10, 2005  

Film Night

Special "Airships" Video 

March 10, 2005

Steve Mitchell, the producer of "It's A Gas: Math and Science of the Blimp" will be with us to explain how this project came together.  

"It's a Gas ..." is an 11-episode series of educational television programs produced by PBS 45&49.

The series, targeted at 7th through 10th grade science and math students, is being offered to teachers statewide through Ohio's public television stations.  Each episode provides students with an introduction to a specific topic such as buoyancy.  The companion curriculum guide provides teachers with directions to hands-on activities for the classroom.  Each lesson also has a computer-based activity that is available on CD-ROM or over the web.  Each episode features an interview of a Lockheed-Martin engineer, a Goodyear pilot, a Kent State University professor, or The LTA Society's own Joe Huber.  Locations include the Airdock, the LTAS Workshop and Wingfoot Lake.  

For more information, check out the "It's a Gas" web site at www.pbs4549.org/blimp.

April 14, 2005

Robert Rist and Brian Martin founders of Ohio Airships, Inc. of Mantua, Ohio, will present a slide show on the company's Dynalifter prototype now under construction.  They also will show their Ohio State Wind Tunnel test model and update us on development with the DARPA "WALRUS" Project.

May 12, 2005

Envelope Material for Modern Airships

Elliott Liggett, a Lockheed-Martin engineer will give a presentation on advances in modern airship fabric technology.  In a general discussion, he will compare properties of traditional cotton and the now-common nylon and polyester to modern high tenacity fibers.