The Lighter-Than-Air Society
The Lighter-Than-Air Society is your source for information pertaining to blimps, airships, dirigibles, zeppelins, aerostats, and various balloons.
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    • Mission Statement
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  • Events & Meetings
    • Current and Future Events
    • Past Events
      • 2013 Silent Auction Items
      • August 18, 2012 – The Ghost Blimp
      • November 10, 2012 – 60th Annual Banquet and Fundraiser
      • November 15, 2014 – 62nd Annual Banquet and Silent Auction
      • Saturday, April 6, 2013 11:00 AM
      • May 6, 2012 – 75th Anniversary of the Crash of the Hindenburg
        • The Hindenburg – Cast and Crew
        • The Hindenburg – Synopsis
      • 59th Annual Banquet and Silent Auction Flyer – October 22, 2011
        • A Treasure of Six Ohio Books from Gray & Co., Publishers.
        • Bed & Breakfast Package in Nelsonville, Ohio
        • Golf package #2
        • Jim Maloney Jr. – Guest Speaker
        • Lighter Than Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships, by Tom D. Crouch
        • The Movie Basket
        • Tom Riley, Recipient of the 2011 ‘P. Rendall Brown’ Lifetime Achievement Award
      • FAREWELL shown at the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival (March 2011)
  • History
    • Special Online Content for Buoyant Flight, Spring 2013
    • This Month in Buoyant Flight History
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – January
        • K-class Airships
        • Airship Early Warning Squadron 1 (ZW-1)
        • Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz
        • Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809)
        • Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand – First to cross the Pacific in a hot air balloon
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – February
        • Hampton Roads, Virginia – Airship ‘Roma’ Disaster, Feb 1922
        • Henri Dupuy de Lôme
        • Medal commemorates first successful balloon flight in Italy
        • Robert Falcon Scott
        • The Remains of the USS Macon
        • USAF Museum Fact Sheet – Roma Airship Tragedy and Liberty Engine
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – March
        • Fatal Flight of Capt. Gray
        • Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin’s Grave site
        • First Flight of the Hindenburg (LZ-129)
        • The ZPG-2 Airship ‘Snow Bird’ sets Unrefueled Flight Time and Distance Records
        • USS Macon christening ceremony – March 11, 1933
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – April
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – May
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – June
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – July
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – August
      • This Month in Buoyant Flight History – September
  • Learn
    • Fun Facts
      • Books from the Collection of Captain Garland Fulton
      • Glossary of Airship Terms
      • How do you build a Blimp? How does it work?
      • The first event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a helium gas-filled balloon competition
    • Learn About Stratospheric Balloons
      • A Typical Stratospheric Balloon Launch
      • Anatomy of a Stratospheric Balloon
    • New Zeppelins for Goodyear
      • ABJ article on Goodyear’s new Zeppelins
      • COMPARISON SHEET – GZ20A/Goodyear LZN07-101
      • ELECTRONIC SIGN – THEN AND NOW
      • Goodyear Press Release
      • New Goodyear Blimp Photo Gallery
      • The Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik Press Release
    • Newsletters
    • Other
      • MKO Cargo Airship Conference, October 9 – 10, 2013
      • Paul Rendall “Ren” Brown
      • The Quintessential Helium Head
  • Links
  • Membership
  • Virtual Museum
    • Dr. A. Dale Topping

New Zeppelins for Goodyear

Click here to see the Goodyear press release

Click here to see the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik press release

Click here to see the Akron Beacon Journal’s article

 

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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
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