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...
1930s
airship
airships
cold war
commercial
goodyeargoodyeartireandrubbercompanygoodyear-zeppelin
interwar period
passenger
pre-world war ii
world war ii
zeppelin
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...
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