Needing a reliable truck tough enough to easily handle mooring the Goodyear Blimp, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company chose a modified Mack Granite model as a mast truck for its iconic cargo. When you ...
Even one of the world’s most famous airships can’t fly everywhere, but it takes a special truck to truck to control Goodyear’s massive airship while it’s not in the sky. The Mack Granite model used to ...
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's Wingfoot One airship is parked outside the company's Wingfoot Lake hangar in Suffield, near Akron. A century ago, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company decided to take ...
In an old aircraft hangar in Suffield, Ohio , a crew of eight to 10 mechanics and manufacturers is working to assemble Goodyear's next generation of airships. Its carbon fiber and aluminum skeleton ...