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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...

Proposed inflatable lunar habitat designed to allow a two-week stay on the lunar surface. It would have been carried on the LM in place of the LRV unless the mission was a Dual LM mission. The attached pictures depict the deployment sequence. Lunar Stay Time Extension Module (STEM)...

Hi all! After a long hiatus, I have a new book on the market on the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation GA-28A/B, one of the submissions to the US Navy convoy fighter competition of 1950, which ultimately produced the Convair XFY-1 and Lockheed XFV-1 VTOL aircraft. The GA-28A was a three-quarter scale...

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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Robunos was suggesting having some pics of the Goodyear Inflatoplane, so here goes... The Goodyear Model 466 and 468 were called Inflatoplanes. Like the Hiller Flying Platform and other odd aircraft, they were part of a multi-service evaluation by the Army and the Navy's ONR, except here the CIA...

In the early/mid 1950's, work was performed at Goodyear Aircraft on the METEOR concept ("Manned Earth-Satellite Terminal Evolving From Earth-To-Orbit Ferry Rockets"). This was somewhat similar to the "Colliers" space program as envisioned by von Braun and others... just not so small and limited...

Midgetman (SICBM) mobile launchers.

this comany was amasing one ,and only we know about it GA-1,2,22,33,39,400,447 and FG series. can we complete the GA series ?, and we must know there are some airships in that series.