Category Archives: Blimps

Wind Industry’s New Technologies Are Helping It Compete on Price

Source: The New York Times – nytimes.com By Diane Cardwell The wind industry has gone to great lengths over the years to snap up the best properties for its farms, often looking to remote swaths of prairie or distant mountain … Continue reading

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The new Gooyear Blimp makes its maiden flight.

This morning, March 17, 2014, a few minutes before 10:00 AM (EDT), the new Goodyear Blimp took to the air for the first time.

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More Details on Goodyear’s New Blimp

View photos taken at the new Goodyear Blimp’s unveiling and read articles related to the new airship.

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Goodyear Unveils New State-of-the-Art Blimp

Source: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Goodyear Reveals Larger, Faster Airship; Launches Nationwide Contest to Choose its Name

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Goodyear’s New Blimp-NT Undergoes Ground Tests

Goodyear’s new airship, built by Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik (ZLT) in Friedrichshafen, Germany and assembled by Goodyear at Wingfoot Lake in Ohio is going through ground tests leading up to its maiden flight which is scheduled to take place later this month.

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