The Akron-class airships were a class of two rigid airships constructed for the US Navy in the early 1930s. Designed as scouting and reconnaissance platforms...

USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933...

of both the U.S. Navy airships Akron and Macon. Macon had a structured duraluminum hull with three interior keels. The airship was kept aloft by 12 helium-filled...

Lake Airship Hangar, near the company's headquarters in Akron, Ohio. In May 2011, Goodyear announced it was replacing its fleet of non-rigid airships with...

proposed successor to the Akron class, not built All other airships were registered as aircraft. ZMC-2, a metalclad-airship built by the Aircraft Development...

U.S. airships were produced by the Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio. From 1942 till 1945, 154 airships were built for the U.S. Navy (133 K-class, 10 L-class...

pressure airships) and semi-rigid airships. Rigid airships are often commonly called Zeppelins, though this technically refers only to airships built by...

designation for aircraft carriers, "CV" (Carrier aViation). Like the Akron-class airships that preceded it, the ZRCV was designed as an aerial aircraft carrier...

The N-Class, or as popularly known, the "Nan ship", was a line of non-rigid airships built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio for the US Navy...

as a trainer and utility airship assigning it the designator G-1. Defender was built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio and was the largest...

project saw only the civilian R100 and R101 airships to completion. The two rigid airships of the Akron class, Akron and Macon, were built for scouting duties...

The R.38 class (also known as the A class) of rigid airships was designed for Britain's Royal Navy during the final months of the First World War, intended...

The two Hindenburg-class airships were hydrogen-filled, passenger-carrying rigid airships built in Germany in the 1930s and named in honor of Paul von...

Feasibility Study Of Modern Airships Vol. III Historical Overview (PDF), US Dept of Commerce, p. 3 Smith, Richard (1965). The Airships Akron & Macon, The Flying...

Akron. This was the only airship of this class ever built. Goodyear originally designed the GZ-22 to demonstrate the possible renewed use of airships...

commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was...

Airships were produced by the Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio and also assembled at Moffett Field in California. From 1942 until 1945, 154 airships were...

The K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy. These blimps...

recover fixed wing aircraft from rigid airships. The tests were a success and the later purpose-built Akron-class airships were fitted with this system. The...

better-known project in 1925 using rigid airships, the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), the USS Macon (ZRS-5) and the USS Akron (ZRS-4). Scott Field in St. Clair County...

program to operate airships. With the exceptions of the Italian-built Roma and the Goodyear RS-1, which were both semi-rigid, all Army airships were non-rigid...

Airship hangars (also known as airship sheds) are large specialized buildings that are used for sheltering airships during construction, maintenance and...

Dixmude was a Zeppelin airship built for the Imperial German Navy as L 72 (c/n LZ 114) and unfinished at the end of the First World War, when it was given...

Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio built the M-class blimp for the United States Navy as the follow-on to the K-class anti-submarine warfare blimp...

prototype of the later K-class blimps. Due to the inability to get Congressional approval for the construction of an airship, the navy used the ploy of...

led to the construction of the Akron and Macon airships as airborne aircraft carriers. In parallel with early airship activity, efforts also went into...

See USS Norton Sound (AVM-1) See Deep Submergence Vessel NR-1. See Akron-class airship. Derdall and DiGiulian, (section: Cruisers) Naval History and heritage...

introduction of the Akron-class airship, an "S" mission suffix was added to signify scout (ZRS-class). The first U.S. Navy non-rigid airship was ordered in...

The B class blimps were patrol airships operated by the United States Navy during and shortly after World War I. The Navy had learned a great deal from...

successful Goodyear-Zeppelin designs, USS Akron and USS Macon. R31 class airship List of Parseval airships List of Zeppelins Aviation in World War I Zeppelin...