Goodyear 3 stage rocket

[Antonio]

What is it?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/6335602942/sizes/l/in/photostream/

 

[Orionblamblam]

Darryl Romick's "Meteor Jr" from *about* 1957.

 

[hesham]

My dear Pometablava,

here is your request;

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2504.30.html

http://www.metafilter.com/53712/Around-the-world-on-a-Dream-Machine

 

[Brickmuppet]

Reuseable manned medium lift rockets...and zeppelins.
This is the most awesomest transportation network in the entire history of awesome!

 

[royabulgaf]

Looks like Goodyear was steampunk before steampunk was cool.

 

[OM]

Looks like Goodyear was steampunk before steampunk was cool.

...And not only are they inflatable and made of steel-belted rubber, they're good for at least 250,000 miles! ;D ;D ;D

 

[Jos Heyman]

The link given by Pometablava on 12 Nov 2011 is no longer valid. As I found these drawing today by sheer accident in the SDAM flickr website, I attach them here so that we do not loose them.
The interesting thing is that the concepts seems to be sub-orbital. Might this be a Goodyear proposal for what became the X-20?

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[Michel Van]

From London to Los Angeles suborbital
If that not a test flight,
Could this indicate Goodyear had plans for rocket passenger liner, just like Bell BOMI ?
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3530.msg27989.html#msg27989