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BIG
business
A sign of the times
BY THOMAS B. HAINES
THE RADAR ALTIMETER indicates
we are 200 feet off the ground.
The Garmin G500H shows a
true airspeed of 3 knots, but the
groundspeed is zero. Confusing
indications, even for helicopter
pilots. From a sight and senses
standpoint, fixed-wing pilots
simply need to sit quietly for a while
and absorb it all. Flying blimps is
not like anything else you've done.
And it's also not like it used to be.
Gone are the twentieth-century
non-rigid GZ-20 series of blimps
Goodyear flew for decades. In
2011, the company announced its
decision to retire the blimps in favor
of a new generation of semi-rigid
airships, the NT series-for New
Technology. The move brought back
together Goodyear and its partner of
long ago, Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik
GmbH, based in Friedrichshafen,
Germany. The two last worked
together in the 1920s, when the
Goodyear-Zeppelin Company
developed the huge dirigibles that
were fashionable at the time.
The first result of the latest
partnership was the launch of
Wingfoot One-N1A-in 2014, the
first of three zeppelins designed
by Zeppelin and Goodyear and
built by Goodyear at its now
101-year-old blimp hangar at
Wingfoot Lake near Akron, Ohio.
Wingfoot One is based in Pompano
Beach, Florida. Wingfoot Two
came along in 2017 and is based
in Carson, California. Our ride is
the brand-new Wingfoot Three,
which received its airworthiness
certificate a few days ahead of our
visit in August 2018. It will call
Wingfoot Lake home.
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