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The Spirit of Goodyear, one of the iconic Goodyear Blimps. The Wingfoot Lake Hangar was built in 1917 for testing and construction of aircraft by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company. During World War I and II, Goodyear built and manufactured blimps for the U.S. Navy and the first class of Navy airship pilots were trained at the site. [3]
NAS Trinidad had a blimp base and built and supported Latin America bases to protect the shipping lanes to and from the Panama Canal from U-boat attacks. All the Latin America base were closed after the war, some became civil airports. NAS Trinidad did not close till 1977. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The company commissioned Karl Arnstein of Akron, Ohio, whose design was inspired by the blueprints of the first aerodynamic-shaped airship hangar, built in 1913 in Dresden, Germany. [ 6 ] Construction took place from April 20 to November 25, 1929, at a cost of $2.2 million (equivalent to $30.74 million in 2023 [ 7 ] ).
Smith said the Goodyear blimps typically travel at around 20-25 mph, but will go faster depending on wind patterns. With that said, they can go up to 73 mph.
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The helium-filled blimps are fitted with solar panels and backup batteries to power their engines, have a flight time of up to 12 hours and a range of up to 400 kilometers (249 miles), flying at a ...
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The base also had a 2,000-foot-diameter (610 m) Macadamized blimp landing mat, six mooring circles, and a 4,500-foot-long (1,400 m) cinder-surfaced turf runway. Throughout the war with Germany, NAS South Weymouth served as the home base of airship patrol squadron ZP-11, which operated up to twelve K-class blimps employed on ASW patrols and ...