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  1. H

    Goodyear-Zeppelin ZRS-Derived Passenger Airship (~1935)

    Hullo all! Attached are a few images of a 1930s Goodyear-Zeppelin proposal for a large passenger airship based on the ZRS scout airship. All items are held in the collection of the University of Akron Archives, from which permission to post has been obtained. If there's any interest, I have a...
    • Hlostoops
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    • 1930s airship airships cold war commercial goodyear goodyear tire and rubber company goodyear-zeppelin interwar period passenger pre-world war ii world war ii zeppelin
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  2. Jemiba

    Aircraft Carrying Airship Projects

    Aircraft were already launched from airships during WW I, when the British airship R.23 was used for trials with two Sopwith Camel fighters. But the first practical design, that could launch AND recover more than one aircraft, was the USN ZRS-4 Akron, later followed by the ZRS-5 Macon. In...
    • Jemiba
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    • cold war goodyear goodyear tire and rubber company goodyear-zeppelin great britain interwar period united states united states navy world war i world war ii
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  3. Antonio

    Goodyear 3 stage rocket

    What is it? :o http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/6335602942/sizes/l/in/photostream/
  4. Orionblamblam

    METEOR: city in space

    In the early/mid 1950's, work was performed at Goodyear Aircraft on the METEOR concept ("Manned Earth-Satellite Terminal Evolving From Earth-To-Orbit Ferry Rockets"). This was somewhat similar to the "Colliers" space program as envisioned by von Braun and others... just not so small and limited...
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